BRIEFLY DOCTOR IMPOSTOR ENTERS GUILTY PLEAS.An impostor pleaded guilty Wednesday of impersonating a physician while on the lam from federal authorities in similar cases. Gerald Barnes Gerald Barnes can refer to:
Barnes was hired at the Family Medical Clinic in North Hollywood in September 2000, where he used the identity of a real doctor also named Gerald Barnes, prosecutors said. He worked there briefly before authorities tracked him down. - City News Service Ex-educator says he sent child porn A 25-year educator in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of distributing child pornography Child pornography is the visual representation of minors under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity or the visual representation of minors engaging in lewd or erotic behavior designed to arouse the viewer's sexual interest. on the Internet. Albert Pinedo, 60, of Alhambra, admitted sending about 28 sexually explicit images of children via e-mail to an undercover U.S. postal inspector beginning in July 2002. He faces a maximum of 15 years in prison. Pinedo was a teacher and administrator for the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) between 1975 and 2002. - Daily News MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. , unions delay potential strike The bus and rail operators' union has agreed to extend contract talks, thereby averting a possible strike when a court-ordered cooling-off period An interval of time during which no action of a specific type can be taken by either side in a dispute. An automatic delay in certain jurisdictions, apart from ordinary court delays, between the time when Divorce papers are filed and the divorce hearing takes place. expires at 11:59 p.m. today, officials in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Wednesday. The extension runs for 10 days past the deadline and then can be terminated after by either party with 72-hours notice, according to the MTA. - City News Service Man loses $1,400 in computer scam BURBANK - Police are searching for two men in their 20s suspected of robbing a victim of $1,400 during a scam. The victim, whose name was not released, was entering Best Buy at the Empire Center at 1501 Victory Place at about 10:20 p.m. Tuesday when two men approached him asking if he would like to buy four laptop computers for $2,000, said Burbank Police Spokesman Sgt. Will Berry. The victim followed the two men to their car and agreed to purchase the merchandise for $1,400, which he said was all he had. The men placed four boxes in the victim's car trunk. When he asked to look inside the boxes, the men took his money and fled. The boxes contained only heavy catalogs, police said. - Daily News Busjacker called remorseless killer A Reseda man, convicted of murder for crushing a woman to death with a hijacked MTA bus as he tried to elude police after a shooting, has no remorse and should be put to death, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday. Carlos Ray Garcia was found guilty last week of first-degree murder and 11 other charges stemming from a shooting, busjacking and wild police chase through downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or on May 2, 2001. Deputy District Attorney Hector Guzman told the Los Angeles Superior Court panel of seven men and five women that the 42-year-old defendant should be executed for his ``evil conduct.'' - City News Service Prop. 54 debate to be held tonight GLENDALE - The Glendale Human Relations Coalition will hold a debate today on Proposition 54, the racial privacy initiative, to discuss whether the initiative will create a more color-blind col·or·blind or col·or-blind adj. 1. Partially or totally unable to distinguish certain colors. 2. a. Not subject to racial prejudices. b. society or erode the basic civil rights of minorities. Speakers from the Pro Racial Privacy Initiative and the No Coalition for an Informed California will debate the issue, including its effects on racial profiling The consideration of race, ethnicity, or national origin by an officer of the law in deciding when and how to intervene in an enforcement capacity. Police officers often profile certain types of individuals who are more likely to perpetrate crimes. , basic civil rights, medical research data collection, hate crime enforcement and public education accountability. The debate will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in the community room at Glendale Fire Station 21, 421 Oak Street. - Daily News California schools 36th in grad rates California public schools rank 36th overall in graduation rates in the United States, according to a study released Wednesday by the Manhattan Institute for Public Research. Based on 2001 data, the study shows the state's overall graduation rate at 67 percent, although lower among some minority groups. While only 58 percent of blacks graduate in California, that rate is significantly higher than the national rate of 51 percent, and the 56 percent rate for California's Hispanics is also significantly higher than the national rates of 52 percent. - Daily News Four local schools to be given awards Millikan Middle School, Aldama Elementary, Sun Valley Middle School Sun Valley Middle School is located in Sun Valley, a section of Los Angeles, California, and is part of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In April 1948, school officials announced that "the most charming of all the new junior high schools" in the Los Angeles system would and Fernangeles Elementary are four out of 14 schools nationwide to receive an award for outstanding work protecting students from environmental health hazards There are numerous health hazards that can affect people in their natural environment. Examples of environmental health hazards are :
The Green Flag Program and the Los Angeles Unified School District will present awards to the four schools during a 10 a.m. ceremony today at Fernangeles Elementary, 12001 Art Street, Sun Valley. - Daily News Fired prosecutor dies facing trial A former Los Angeles deputy city attorney died while awaiting trial on criminal sex-solicitation charges, his lawyer confirmed Wednesday. Richard Bruce Coplen, 48, of Highland Park, died on Sept. 6 of natural causes, said his attorney and longtime friend Charles L. Lindner. Coplen lost his job after allegations surfaced involving his conduct with a teenage boy whom authorities said he met on the Internet. - City News Service Hurricane threat affects Southland Several Southern California hospitals, including 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 , have canceled elective surgeries because of Hurricane Isabel's possible effects, American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. officials said Wednesday. Because about 40 percent of the local blood supply comes from out of state, the aftermath of Isabel could be devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. locally. ``With Hurricane Isabel bearing down on the East Coast, we need to step up to the plate and donate blood,'' said Jay Olmstead, chief executive officer of the Red Cross' Southern California Blood Services. The Red Cross has only 19 percent of the desired amount of O-positive blood and 9 percent of the desired amount of O-negative blood for a safe blood supply, officials said. For information about donating blood call (800) GIVE-LIFE or visit www.Givelife.org. - City News Service |
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