BRIEFLY FIREFIGHTERS FIND BODY IN L.A. RIVER.SHERMAN OAKS - The body of an approximately 50-year-old man was found Wednesday night in the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. in what police believe may have been a suicide. 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. firefighters responded to the river near Fulton Avenue about 7:30 p.m. after hearing a report of a man in the river and discovered him to be deceased, Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said. Police believe the man was previously involved with some sort of disturbance Wednesday night and then jumped into the river, LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Sgt. Abel Parga said. - Daily News Cosby to receive Bob Hope award There's no punch line here: Bill Cosby will be honored with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award was established in 2002 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of Bob Hope's trailblazing career. at this month's Emmy Awards. ``Bill Cosby, like Hope, has not only made Americans laugh over a long career, but he has also used his stardom to shine a light on strengthening the family values which make our country great,'' National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chairman Bryce Zabel said in a statement. Cosby's television success includes the groundbreaking ``I Spy,'' which in the 1960s became the first drama to feature a black actor, and the hit 1980s family sitcom ``The Cosby Show.'' He has supported education through donations to colleges and scholarships and the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation, named for his son, Ennis, who was killed in 1997, the academy said. - Associated Press Court: No appeal for rapist Luster SAN FRANCISCO - Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster cannot appeal his rape convictions because he fled his trial and became a fugitive, the California Supreme Court decided Wednesday. Luster, 39, the great-grandson of the cosmetics legend, was convicted earlier this year of raping three women after inviting them to his Mussell Shoals beach house northwest of Los Angeles and knocking them out with the date-rape drug GHB GHB abbr. gamma-hydroxybutyrate GHB 1 Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, γ-hydroxy-butyrate See GABA 2 Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there GHb Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there . During his Ventura County trial this year, he fled and was convicted in absentia in absentia (in ab-sensh-ee-ah) adj. or adv. phrase. Latin for "in absence," or more fully, in one's absence. Occasionally a criminal trial is conducted without the defendant being present when he/she walks out or escapes after the trial has begun, since the accused and sentenced to 124 years in prison. Usually, criminal defendants convicted of crimes may appeal their sentences and convictions. But the so-called ``fugitive disentitlement doctrine'' generally prohibits fugitives from appealing their federal or state convictions, or places limitations on such appeals. - Daily News Disneyland victim struck in chest A man killed last week on a Disneyland roller coaster bled to death after being struck in the chest by an unknown object, the Orange County coroner said Wednesday. Marcelo Torres, 22, of Gardena suffered blunt-force trauma to the chest that fractured his ribs, leading to laceration laceration /lac·er·a·tion/ (las?er-a´shun) 1. the act of tearing. 2. a torn, ragged, mangled wound. lac·er·a·tion n. 1. A jagged wound or cut. 2. of his lungs that caused severe blood loss, according to a coroner's statement released by the county Sheriff's Department. Torres was riding the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is a roller-coaster attraction at the Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris theme parks. History The attraction first opened at Disneyland in 1979, with the Magic Kingdom's larger version opening in 1980. on Friday morning when the roller coaster derailed inside a tunnel as it was climbing a steep grade, Anaheim city officials have said. Torres was in the first passenger car behind a car made to look like a locomotive. He died inside the ride. Investigators had not determined precisely how Torres was injured. - Associated Press Minuteman III missile launched VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 3,456 acres (1,399 hectares), SW Calif., near Lompoc; chief Pacific coast launch site for military satellites. - The Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile intercontinental ballistic missile: see guided missile. early Wednesday from this base along the Central California coast, officials said. The Boeing Co.-made missile, part of the Force Development Evaluation Program, was launched at 4:31 a.m. on a 4,800-mile trip across the Pacific Ocean, said base spokesman Lloyd Conley. The missile was to take about 30 minutes to reach its target in the Kwajalein Missile Range. - Associated Press |
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