BRIEFLY HEALTH BUILDING IN L.A. EMPTIED.Ten to 20 people at the county's health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract building downtown complained of breathing difficulties Friday, prompting an evacuation and a search for the source of the problem. Paramedics and a county fire hazardous-materials team were dispatched to the three-story building at 241 N. Figueroa St. at 3:11 p.m., said Jim Wells 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. . As of late Friday afternoon, the Fire Department reportedly had several people under observation, but no one was taken to the hospital. - City News Service Patient isolated for study of SARS A patient at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center was isolated Friday evening as doctors evaluated him for signs of severe acute respiratory syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Definition Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the first emergent and highly transmissible viral disease to appear during the twenty-first century. . The man had recently returned to the Los Angeles area from an Asian country and showed up at the hospital's emergency room with cold symptoms, said hospital administrator Jim Piazzola. Piazzola cautioned, however, that there was no indication the man had anything more than a cold. ``They always tend to be conservative in cases like these,'' Piazzola said. Since the SARS outbreak, 58 cases have been reported in California, but only 21 of those cases are considered probable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. . - Daily News Simi Valley man jailed in porn case SIMI VALLEY - A Simi Valley man was sentenced to five months in jail Friday for 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. Blair Lonergan, 24, also was placed on felony probation for three years. Lonergan was caught sending child pornographic images in April 2002 while in an Internet chat room. The recipient was a police detective doing a sting operation. Lonergan was also ordered to register as a sex offender sex offender n. generic term for all persons convicted of crimes involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution. and was ordered not to be in the presence of minors without an adult present. - Daily News Two convicted in man's murder The man convicted in the 1992 riot-related beating of trucker Reginald Denny was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder for a drug dealer's shooting death at a crack house in southwest Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated about two weeks before finding Damian ``Football'' Williams, 30, guilty of the July 18, 2000, slaying of Grover Tinner tin·ner n. 1. A tin miner. 2. One that makes or deals in tinware; a tinsmith. Noun 1. tinner - someone who makes or repairs tinware tinsmith smith - someone who works at something specified , 48. The eight women and four men also convicted Tyrone Killingsworth, 37, of second-degree murder and found that he fired the actual shots that killed Tinner. The panel acquitted Williams and Killingsworth of first-degree murder. - City News Service Ex-principal gets 12-year sentence VENTURA - A former Christian school administrator was sentenced this week to 16 years in prison for molesting a 13-year-old student who attended Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, prosecutor Douglas Ridley said. The sentence of Jonathan Peter Andreas, 36, a former middle school principal at the school, is in addition to a 12-year term handed to him this spring for molesting two girls at Calvary Christian School in Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). . Andreas pleaded guilty to eight counts of lewd conduct in the Ventura County case. - Daily News Out-of-control car crashes, killing 1 PIRU PIRU Public Information Reference Unit PIRU People in Red Uniform (band) - One woman was killed and three people injured Friday when their car hydroplaned off Highway 126 about two miles west of the Ventura-Los Angeles county line. The crash was reported about 7:45 p.m. as a storm system was dousing the region with rain. The car was headed east when the driver lost control and veered 30 feet off the roadway, said California Highway Patrol dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. Vicki Runyan. One woman was pronounced dead and another person was airlifted to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, Runyan said. Two other people were taken to Santa Paula Memorial Hospital with minor injuries, she said. - Daily News |
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