BRIEFLY COP SHOOTS HIMSELF WHILE CLEANING GUN.NORTH HILLS - An off-duty Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police officer was expected to survive after accidentally shooting himself in his groin while cleaning his gun Saturday at a residence in North Hills, a police spokesman said. The accidental shooting occurred Saturday afternoon while the officer was cleaning his gun, said Los Angeles police officer Don Cox. The officer's name, whereabouts and condition were not being released. - City News Service Man shot to death outside apartment RESEDA - A man was shot to death after he stepped out of a car in the carport CARPORT Cardiology A clinical trial–Coronary Artery Restenosis Prevention on Repeated Thromboxane-Antagonism Study that evaluated thromboxane A2-receptor blockade in preventing restenosis after PCTA in Pts with CAD. of an apartment building, authorities said Saturday. Shortly after 8 p.m. Friday someone followed 33-year-old Terrance Ellen into a garage at 18325 Saticoy St. The unknown suspect shot Ellen several times in the upper body, said Sgt. John Kielbasa kiel·ba·sa n. A spicy smoked Polish sausage. [Polish kie . - City News Service Pedestrian killed while in crosswalk A pedestrian was hit and killed while walking in a Van Nuys crosswalk late Friday, police said Saturday. The 60-year-old man, whose name was not released by police, was walking in the crosswalk against the red light around 11:15 p.m. when he was hit by a car at Victory and Balboa boulevards. The man died at the scene. The car was headed south on Balboa Boulevard when the pedestrian was in the crosswalk. The driver was not speeding or under the influence of alcohol or drugs, said Los Angeles Police Sgt. Paul Modrell of the Valley Traffic Division. - Daily News Blaze breaks out in vacant building HOLLYWOOD - Firefighters put out a fire Saturday in a vacant Hollywood building that was once a TV studio used for such programs as the Merv Griffin Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. (July 6 1925 – August 12 2007) was an American talk show host, game show host, entertainer, pianist, television personality and raconteur. show. Fire crews were sent at 9:36 a.m. to the 6300 block of West Selma Avenue, said Jim Wells Jim Wells MLA (born 27 April 1957) is a politician from the Democratic Unionist Party and a deputy speaker of the Transitional Assembly (Northern Ireland). Wells is one of six Assembly members for South Down. of the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. . About 70 firefighters doused the flames by 11 a.m., he said. The cause of the fire was under investigation. - City News Service Man, 45, abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point from Bel-Air home Three intruders robbed a Bel-Air man, kidnapped and drove him in his own car to San Marino San Marino, city, United States San Marino (săn mərē`nō), residential city (1990 pop. 12,959), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1913. Of interest is the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. , where he was abandoned, police said. The 45-year-old victim, whose name was withheld by authorities, was attacked in his home in the upscale suburb about 10:30 p.m. Thursday and robbed of an unknown amount of cash and other items, police said Saturday. - Associated Press |
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