BRIEFLY JURY TO BE CHOSEN IN PRESCHOOL CASE.NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. - Jury selection is expected to begin Monday in Newport Beach in the trial of a man who allegedly crashed a Cadillac into a preschool playground, killing two small children and injuring five other people. Steven Allen Abrams, 40, could face the death penalty if jurors rejects the insanity defense A defense asserted by an accused in a criminal prosecution to avoid liability for the commission of a crime because, at the time of the crime, the person did not appreciate the nature or quality or wrongfulness of the acts. The insanity defense is used by criminal defendants. he is expected to mount and convict him of first- degree murder. The Santa Ana Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. man is charged with two counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder. Sierra Beth Soto, 4, and Brandon Wiener, 3, died in the May 3, 1999, crash at the Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center. They were pinned beneath Abrams' 1967 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Four other children and a teacher's aide were injured. Testimony in the trial could begin by mid-August. - City News Service Couple robs bank using holdup note LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE - A man and woman robbed a Foothill Boulevard bank Saturday morning and fled with an undetermined sum of money, authorities said. Nobody was hurt in the 11:45 a.m. holdup at California Federal Bank California Federal Bank, often abbreviated to "Cal Fed", was a savings and loan bank in California. It existed from 1926 until 2002, when its parent company Golden State Bancorp was acquired by Citigroup, resulting in the bank being merged into Citibank. , 742 Foothill Blvd. The pair handed a teller a demand note, but no weapon was seen, said Sgt. Joe Raya Raya may refer to:
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . FBI agents were called to look into the robbery, but scant information about the crime was available, said Raya, of the sheriff's Crescenta Valley station. - Daily News Funeral Mass held for four victims PICO RIVERA - A funeral Mass was held Saturday for a father and three children stabbed and slashed to death while they slept. A community gathered at St. Hilary Church as four caskets reminded them of the brutal slayings of youth sports coach Richard Angel Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , 42; his sons Richard Jr., 17, and Matthew, 10; and his 13-year-old daughter, Sylvia. Flores' 39-year-old wife, religion teacher Sylvia, survived the July 21 attack. An adopted daughter and her boyfriend are charged in the killings. - Associated Press Deadly arenavirus arenavirus /are·na·vi·rus/ (ah-re´nah-vi?rus) any virus of the family Arenaviridae. Arenavirus /Are·na·vi·rus/ (ah-re´nah-vi?rus found in 7 states RIVERSIDE - Seven southwestern states have wood rats carrying the rare arenavirus, which has been linked to three deaths in California. Arenavirus typically is associated with wild wood rats and believed to be transmitted to humans in dust carrying an infected rodent's urine, feces or saliva, a health expert said Friday. Arenavirus is believed to have killed a 14-year-old Oakland girl, who died in April; and a 30-year-old Orange County woman and a 52-year-old Riverside County woman in the past 14 months. Field studies have found arenavirus in rats in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. The California deaths are the first North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. cases in which humans have contracted the virus. California health officials asked a researcher at the University of Texas to check samples from 20 people who died of unexplained causes. Only three were caused by arenavirus. - Associated Press Fire burns grass in Elysian Park ELYSIAN PARK - Firefighters on Saturday battled a grass fire that burned between one and two acres in Elysian Park north of downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , but no structural damage or injuries were reported, a city fire spokesman said. The fire broke out about 5:25 p.m. in the 1500 block of Boylston Street and was knocked down by 5:58 p.m., said city fire spokesman Bob Collis. No information was available on the cause of the fire. - City News Service |
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