BRIEFLY COUNCIL TO MEET AT MADRID THEATRE.CANOGA PARK - The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. will be coming to the San Fernando Valley San Fernando ValleyValley, 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. this week to conduct its business. The council will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Madrid Theatre, 21622 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, as part of its ongoing effort to make meetings more accessible to the public. - Daily News Juvenile inmates overcome officer Two probation camp juveniles who were handcuffed and locked in leg restraints overcame a deputy probation officer Saturday night while he was driving them from Challenger Memorial Youth Center in Lancaster to Camp Mendenhall in the Lake Hughes area, officials said Monday. The youths choked the officer, Michael Omorogieva, with their handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. , threw him out of the van and stole the vehicle, said Jean Huston, justice deputy to Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San . - Daily News Man identified in 2-fatality crash An 18-year-old Chatsworth man who died in a crash Sunday on the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. in Burbank was identified Monday as Shant Jacques Nakkashian, officials said. Authorities said the identity had not been determined of another male who died in the crash when the car skidded across the northbound lanes and the Alameda Avenue off-ramp. - Daily News Questions raised in skater's death NEWPORT BEACH - An autopsy report has cast doubt on what led to the death of a 54-year-old in-line skater who authorities initially thought was the victim of a paintball attack that caused him to fall and suffer a head injury, officials said Monday. Gary Michael Holdren, who had been in a coma for two weeks, was declared dead Sunday and his organs were harvested, said Karen Pestia, spokeswoman at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo. - Associated Press CBS reaches deal with Writers Guild CBS and the Writers Guild of America The Writers Guild of America is a term often referring to the joint efforts of the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, west. Jointly, the two guilds act as the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and announced a tentative contract agreement Monday, effectively averting a strike that would have hampered such programs as ``CBS Evening News CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. with Dan Rather'' and ``The Early Show.'' The proposed three-year contract, which calls for an annual 3 percent pay increase, was reached in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. at CBS-parent Viacom Inc. Details of the contract must now be forwarded for ratification to the guild's nearly 400 members employed by CBS. - Associated Press Hemp products under fire by DEA DEA - Data Encryption Algorithm The government fought a two-pronged battle in the drug war Monday, arguing in a federal appeals court in San Francisco that it can ban hemp foods and strip doctors of their licenses for recommending marijuana. Hemp is an industrial plant related to marijuana. Fiber from hemp plants long has been used to make paper, clothing, rope and other products. Its oil is found in body-care products such as lotion, soap and cosmetics and in a host of foods, including energy bars, waffles, milk-free cheese, veggie burgers and bread. DEA attorney Daniel Dormont said the government banned food made with hemp because ``there's no way of knowing'' whether some products may get consumers high. - Associated Press Cedars-Sinai staff approves strike Licensed vocational nurses, surgical technicians and maintenance workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as voted to strike if agreement on a new contract is not reached, their union said Monday. The threatened work stoppage involves about 1,500 employees at the medical center, said Blanca Gallegos of the Service Employees International Union, Local 399. - City News Service |
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