BRIEFLY DUAL CREDIT PROGRAM URGED TO AID PUPILS.A 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. board member proposed Tuesday to expand a program that allows high school students to simultaneously earn community college and high school credits. While individual high schools have arrangements with local community colleges, board member Julie Korenstein wants the entire district to have a uniform program with the Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. . - Daily News LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. spokesman receives promotion A Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . commander is being promoted to the
rank of deputy chief, it was announced Tuesday.
David Kalish, who has led the department's Community Affairs Group for three years, will be assigned to lead the department's Operations-West Bureau. - City News Service Woman killed, man shot in robbery WEST HOLLYWOOD West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. - A robber killed a 31-year-old woman and shot her companion early Tuesday after a struggle for the woman's purse on a West Hollywood street, authorities said. The shootings, reported at 12:04 a.m. Tuesday, occurred as the Russian- speaking couple from 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. walked north along North Roberston Boulevard, where they were confronted by a man who demanded money from both of them, said Los Angeles sheriff's Sgt. Dorothy Howard. The robber pulled out a semiautomatic handgun and shot the woman's companion in the face, authorities said. The woman was then shot as she ran north on Robertson Boulevard Robertson Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles. The northern part of the street in West Hollywood is a trendy tree-lined shopping district. Robertson is best known as a recent celebrity hangout. . She later died at a local hospital. - Daily News Man is suspected in sexual assault MOORPARK - A man was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault after forcing his way into the apartment of a woman he met earlier at the complex swimming pool, police said Tuesday. Gilberto Gasca, 21, was being held in Ventura County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail. Moorpark police said Gasca forced his way into the apartment after the woman answered his knock at the door. He fled after her relative, who lives at the residence, heard the assault and responded. - Daily News North Hills resident guilty of hate crime A 21-year-old North Hills man pleaded guilty in U.S. Central District Court to a federal hate crime charge for spray painting white supremacist symbols on the home of an Egyptian man in Granada Hills, authorities said. Officials said Joshua Hass was accused of interfering with the housing rights of the victim, a misdemeanor. - Daily News Couple sentenced for estate thefts A Chatsworth woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years behind bars, and her husband got an eight-year probation, for stealing more than $250,000 from the estate of a multimillionaire mul·ti·mil·lion·aire n. One whose financial assets are worth several million dollars. multimillionaire Noun a person who has money or property worth several million pounds, dollars, etc. who died in 1991. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis also ordered Isabel F. Bernstein, 56, and Paul Bernstein, 57, to pay $100,000 in restitution to Harry Popkin's estate and $288,000 to several state agencies. - City News Service Home health care workers get raise County supervisors on Tuesday voted to raise pay for home health care workers by 50 cents per hour, less than half the amount sought by union leaders. The Board of Supervisors' 4-1 vote would boost pay to $6.75 per hour for workers who provide in-home care for low-income disabled and elderly people. State and county governments share the cost. - Associated Press Hawk hauling snake ignites brush fire NEWHALL - A 4-foot-long gopher snake dangling from the claws of a hawk Tuesday morning served as an electrical conductor - and the cause of a small brush fire in Newhall, a fire official said. The hawk and its serpent breakfast burned on a high-tension wire west of 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. near Calgrove Boulevard, fell to the brush below and ignited about an acre, said Capt. David Leary of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Station 124 in Stevenson Ranch. - Daily News Coby King named to airport council Members of the Citizens Advisory Council for Van Nuys Airport Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY, FAA LID: VNY) is a public airport located in Van Nuys, California in the San Fernando Valley, within the Los Angeles city limits. recently elected Coby King as their new president. King, owner of Coby King Communications, a public affairs counseling firm in Los Angeles, will replace Sandor Winger. Councilwoman Laura Chick appointed King to the CAC See Consumer Advisory Council. in August 1998. Among his community activities, King serves as an alternate member 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. Transportation Zone Joint Powers Agency Board, which is examining the benefits and financial feasibility of a separate transportation zone for the Valley. - Daily News County gun show ban set for court A federal appeals court panel requested Tuesday that the California Supreme Court review two questions of law involving a case filed against Los Angeles County by a company that runs gun shows. The lawsuit was filed by Great Western Shows in response to an ordinance banning gun and ammunition sales on county property, which was passed 3-2 last September by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wants the state's high court to rule on whether state laws regulating the sale of firearms and gun shows pre-empt pre·empt or pre-empt v. pre·empt·ed, pre·empt·ing, pre·empts v.tr. 1. To appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others. See Synonyms at appropriate. 2. a. local ordinances prohibiting such sales, and whether a county can regulate the sale of firearms on its property that exists within the boundaries of an incorporated city located within the county. - City News Service |
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