BRIEFLY INNOCENT PLEA IN SHOOTING DEATHS.VAN NUYS - A 55-year-old man pleaded innocent Monday to murder charges stemming from the shooting deaths of a husband and wife during a holdup at their North Hollywood jewelry shop last month. Fereydun ``Fred'' Shahidzaeh, who authorities described as a transient who knew the victims, is being held without bail pending a July 30 appearance in Van Nuys Superior Court. - City News Service Secessionists seek donations 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. secessionists launched their fundraising drive Monday, mailing out about 25,000 letters asking for donations. The letters from the San Fernando Valley Independence Committee were co-signed by eight prominent cityhood supporters, including County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, Economic Alliance Chairman David Fleming
David Fleming and former Arco chairman Lod Cook. - Daily News Charges dropped in kidnap case The government agreed Monday to drop charges against two Russian nationals accused in an international kidnap-for-ransom case in exchange for their testimony. Andrei Agueev, 34, and Andrei Liapine, 42, were charged with receiving ransom money from the family of one of five Southland residents allegedly abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point and killed. Authorities pulled the victims' weighted bodies from New Melones Reservoir New Melones Reservoir is a reservoir on the Stanislaus River in the California Central Valley, about 60 miles upstream from the river's confluence with the San Joaquin River and forming part of the border between Calaveras County and Tuolumne County. in March. - City News Service Eisners sue accountants Disney Chairman Michael Eisner Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) was CEO of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005. Early life Michael Eisner was born to a wealthy family in Mt. Kisco, New York, and raised on Park Avenue in Manhattan. and his wife Jane filed a federal negligence lawsuit against their accounting firm in 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. Monday, alleging it caused them to have to cover $3 million in unpaid state taxes and interest. - City News Service Man sentenced in embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. VAN NUYS - A former manager of the Tarzana Car Wash was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for embezzling $1 million from his now 90-year- old elderly grandfather over a six-year period, state officials said. Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash also ordered Scott Bleakley, 42, of Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. to pay $1 million in restitution, plus interest, to Jack Weinstock. - City News Service New law protects wearing of flag A bill signed into state law Monday bars local governments from restricting employees' ability to wear or display the U.S. flag on their clothing, vehicles or in their workplaces. Many Los Angeles police officers had expressed anger late last year when, after they Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, they were told by department brass they could only wear a specifically authorized flag pin on their uniforms. - City News Service |
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