BRIEFLY GUNMAN SHOOTS WIFE, KILLS MAN.A man shot and wounded his wife and killed another man in a 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. garment district The Garment District is a store in Cambridge, MA and is well known for its Dollar-A-Pound clothing store. The Garment District started out as an offshoot of Harbor Textiles, a textile company which produced wiping cloths for industry that began in the late 1940s. building Wednesday, police said. The shooting occurred about 3:30 p.m. on the sixth floor of a building on East 8th Street, said Officer Don Cox, a Police Department spokesman. The gunman dropped his weapon after the shooting and fled in a red Toyota pickup truck, Cox said. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Hahn issues order to departments Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn issued an executive order Wednesday directing department heads to participate in his plan to decentralize de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. the city's government. Hahn's order comes three weeks after he announced his Teamwork L.A. initiative, a sweeping plan to change the way most Angelenos interact with city government by establishing more neighborhood bureaus and offices. - City News Service Man enters plea in store killings VAN NUYS - A man accused of killing two employees of a Lake Balboa Auto Zone store pleaded not guilty during his arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted Wednesday in Van Nuys Superior Court. Byron Jackson, 40, who has served two prison terms for theft, was being held without bail at Men's Central Jail. He is scheduled to appear in court again Jan. 23 for a preliminary hearing setting. Jackson is accused of killing clerk Carlos Avalos, 44, and manager Francisco Mercado, 34, at the Sherman Way auto parts store on Nov. 3 because he couldn't get a refund for $20 brake pads. - Daily News Suspect in rapes pleads not guilty LONG BEACH - A man suspected in the Belmont Shore rapes pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 64 criminal counts, including rape, assault and burglary involving 14 victims, many of them elderly women. Mark Wayne Rathbun, 32, of Long Beach is jailed without bail pending his next appearance in Long Beach Superior Court on Dec. 18, when a preliminary hearing date is scheduled to be set. - City News Service Child hit, injured by car in Sylmar SYLMAR - A vehicle struck and injured a child Wednesday in Sylmar, authorities said. Paramedics were sent to the 14400 block of Tyler Street about 7:35 a.m., said Brian Humphrey 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. . An air ambulance air ambulance Emergency medicine A helicopter or, less commonly, a fixed wing aircraft, used to evacuate a person who requires immediate medical attention that cannot be provided at his/her current location that was dispatched was canceled, and the youngster, believed to have been seriously injured, was taken to a hospital by ground ambulance, Humphrey said. - City News Service Young to discuss funds for schools With the state facing a $21 billion-plus deficit, Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board President Caprice ca·price n. 1. a. An impulsive change of mind. b. An inclination to change one's mind impulsively. c. Young will travel to San Francisco today to discuss with colleagues ways to stave off cuts in state funding. It would be unfair to ask school districts to make ``deep and dire cuts'' in education spending to help balance the state budget, she said. Young will meet with members of the California School Board Association to discuss what to do. ``Basically what happened is the governor passed a completely fictitious budget, and the Legislature adopted it; and now we have the truth on our hands,'' Young said. - City News Service |
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