BRIEFLY JUDGE BARS AAA PROXY VOTE COUNT.A judge on Friday barred the Automobile Club of Southern California The Automobile Club of Southern California was founded December 13, 1900 in Los Angeles as one of the nation's first motor clubs dedicated to improving roads, proposing traffic laws and improvement of overall driving conditions. from counting proxies that mentioned the names of the four incumbent directors running for re-election but not their four opponents. The order by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Yaffe prohibits the Auto Club from counting the proxies, which included the names and photos of the four incumbents. Challengers Peter Ford, Carl Olson, Mark Seidenberg and Robin Westmiller were not named in the proxies. The challengers accuse the Auto Club of using ``unfair proxies'' to beat them. - City News Service El Segundo drops L.A. airports suit EL SEGUNDO - The city of El Segundo announced Friday that it is dropping a 1999 lawsuit against Los Angeles World Airports Los Angeles World Airports or LAWA is the airport oversight and operations department for the city of Los Angeles, California. This department owns and operates Los Angeles International Airport, LA/Ontario International Airport, Palmdale Regional Airport, and Van , saying Los Angeles is now complying with environmental-review requirements in pushing for the expansion of LAX. But while the El Segundo City Council ordered its lawyers to drop the litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. , El Segundo will continue to work to defeat the LAX master plan for expansion, a statement said. ``We sued LAWA LAWA Los Angeles World Airports LAWA Lawrence's Warbler (bird species) (Los Angeles World Airports) because of its pattern and practice of pushing through projects without conducting legally required environmental reviews,'' said El Segundo Mayor Mike Gordon. ``Since we filed the lawsuit, LAWA has begun complying with environmental disclosure laws.'' - City News Service CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan IDs woman killed on freeway PORTER RANCH - A Canoga Park woman hit by one or more vehicles and killed while trying to cross five lanes of the Ronald Reagan Freeway to get to her disabled car was identified Friday. Teri Lynn Wolles, 30, was fatally injured about 6:15 p.m. Thursday in the fast lane of the freeway, said Scott Carrier of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. The California Highway Patrol says she was killed after talking to an operator from an emergency call box on the freeway shoulder. - City News Service Ex-CSUN adviser admits extortion SAN FERNANDO - A California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , student pleaded no contest Friday to using his position as a residence hall adviser to extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of $200 from a fellow student in exchange for not reporting his on-campus drug use. Gustavo Gutierrez, 24, of Mission Hills was a sociology student at CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge at the time. He entered his plea to one misdemeanor count of concealing or compounding a crime, said Deputy City Attorney Jan DeAndrade. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail or 20 days on a Caltrans or graffiti-removal work crew, she said. - City News Service 51 more homes to become quieter BURBANK - The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority awarded $1.2 million in noise insulation contracts affecting 47 single-family homes in Burbank and three in Los Angeles. The homes, south of the airport's primary departure runway, will each receive custom-designed acoustical treatments, including double-paned windows, central air conditioning, solid-core doors and weather stripping, said the Airport Authority's Victor Gill. These homes bring the number of residences in the noise insulation program to 259, he said. An additional 210 are being considered for inclusion. - City News Service Car hits, kills cow on I-5 Freeway CANYON COUNTRY - A car hit a cow on 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. on Friday night, killing the cow and badly damaging the car. Six cows from a nearby ranch got out and were strolling onto the highway near Lake Hughes Road when a yellow Honda CRX CRX Civic Renaissance Model X (Honda automobile model) CRX Cone-Rod Homeobox-Containing Gene CRX Civic Renaissance Experimental (Honda) hit one of them, said California Highway Patrol Officer Rosa Ray. None of the car's four passengers was injured. The other cows were unhurt. It's unknown how the cows got to the freeway. - Daily News |
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