BRIEFLY CHARRED REMAINS OF HUMAN FOUND.LANCASTER - A severely burned human body was discovered Friday in a desert area outside Lancaster, a sheriff's official said. A passer-by in an undeveloped area near Avenue M and 70th Street saw what resembled a human being in a blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. area and called police about 2 p.m., said Sgt. John Perez of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . ``We sent cars out there and, yeah, it was a person, burned, charred,'' Perez said. Homicide detectives were later dispatched to the scene and were still there Friday night. Perez said nothing is known about the identify of the body other than it appeared to be an adult. - Daily News Authorities identify body of slain man OXNARD - A 29-year-old man found shot to death at an apartment complex in the 5200 block of South J Street was identified Friday as Emilio Fernandez, a Ventura County Medical Examiner's official said. Fernandez, who was staying with various relatives in Ventura County, died at 10:33 p.m. Thursday, a coroner's official said. Police said the victim and an unknown suspect had some sort of conversation before the shooting. Investigators are trying to find a possible motive and are looking into the possibility the shooting was gang-related. An earlier shooting of a 17- year-old had taken place three hours before, six blocks away in the 700 block of Cuesta cuesta (kwĕs`tə), asymmetric ridge characterized by a short, steep escarpment on one side, and a long, gentle slope on the other. The steep side exposes the edge of erosion-resistant rock layers that form the cuestas. Del Mar Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:
Police responding to the 7:03 p.m. call found the teenage boy in a car with gunshot wounds to his leg, torso and leg. He was taken to St. John's Regional Medical Center St. John's Regional Medical Center may refer to: In the United States:
- Daily News Seven arrested after teen stabbed THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Seven Thousand Oaks residents, ranging in age from 14 to 19 years old, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. of a 17-year-old on Wilbur Road, police reported Friday. Two juveniles and one adult suspect are documented members of a Thousand Oaks gang, and the other suspects are known to associate with the same gang, police said. The 17-year-old teen, who was new to the area and is not associated with gangs, was beaten and stabbed about a dozen times by at least two of his assailants on Aug. 17, police said. Police made the arrests Thursday. - Daily News Angelenos invited to build collage Los Angeles residents are encouraged to contribute remembrances to the city's mobile collage in memory of victims of Sept. 11. Deadline for receipt of remembrances is Monday. Contributors are asked to create a remembrance, not larger than 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as a photo, painting or poem or by signing an ``L.A. Remembers'' post card available at fire stations, City Council offices and online at www.laremembers.org. Remembrances may be dropped off at any local fire station. The contributions will be assembled into a Wall of Remembrance and will travel across Los Angeles on Sept 11. - Daily News Valley man picked to join prison panel Gov. Gray Davis has appointed a Mission Hills man to a panel that oversees programs in which state prison inmates earn money by working for private businesses, the governor's office said Friday. Robert Winn, 55, a former union representative for United Food and Commercial Workers The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1.4 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile and Local 770 and vice president of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. , was among four people named to the Joint Venture Policy Advisory Board. The board was established after California voters approved a proposition in 1990 allowing private businesses to hire inmates, who are paid a prevailing wage minus deductions for room and board, crime victim compensation, prisoner family support and forced inmate savings for release. - Daily News |
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