BRIEFLY KING DENIES DRUGS HAD ROLE IN CRASH.FONTANA - Rodney King says he ``may have been speeding a bit,'' but he insists he wasn't under the influence of drugs or alcohol when he crashed his new SUV into a Rialto house in April. King, whose videotaped beating by LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots, said Thursday he has lived clean since completing a drug treatment program last year. The 38-year-old Rialto resident limped into Fontana Superior Court with the help of a walking aid Thursday to plead not guilty to three misdemeanor criminal charges stemming from his April 13 car wreck. After the 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 , King denied being under the influence of PCP PCP abbr. 1. phencyclidine 2. primary care physician Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) during the crash, as police claim, and instead blamed his misfortune on a combination of speeding and a poorly maintained street. - Daily News Doctors, others indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. in fraud GLENDALE - Felony charges were filed Thursday against three owners and employees of a bogus Glendale pharmacy, MTC mtc - A Modula-2 to C translator. ftp://rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/soft/Unixtools/compilerbau/mtc.tar.Z. Pharmacy, and four doctors who fraudulently billed Medi-Cal for more than $500,000 then laundered the money by investing in a pseudo-caviar production company, Attorney General Bill Lockyer said. The complaint alleges that four doctors transmitted fictitious prescriptions to the pharmacy, which billed the Medi-Cal program without filling the prescriptions, Lockyer said. Most of the prescriptions were for Aricept, an expensive medication commonly prescribed to Alzheimer's patients. An examination of patient files revealed that there was no medical basis for the prescriptions. The complaint also alleges that the ill-gotten gains were laundered through investments in a company that produced a caviar-type product. - Daily News Child found safe after car is taken VENTURA - A 1-year-old boy was found safe Thursday after the vehicle he was in was recovered after being stolen from a restaurant parking lot. The boy's father had left his son unaccompanied in the family's Jeep Grand Cherokee The Jeep Grand Cherokee is a mid-size sport utility vehicle produced by the Jeep division of DaimlerChrysler. European Grand Cherokees are manufactured in Austria by Magna Steyr. Development The Grand Cherokee was a spinoff of the smaller Jeep Cherokee. with the keys in the ignition when he went inside Valentino's Pizza on the 2200 block of E. Main Street about 4 p.m. The man left the restaurant only to discover his vehicle was gone. A massive search was launched by authorities throughout Ventura County, police said. A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. helicopter and an Oxnard patrol officer simultaneously spotted the car about 5 p.m. abandoned in the parking lot of a Oxnard shopping center near Victoria Avenue and 5th Street. Police said the child discovered inside uninjured. - Daily News Pilot killed early in glider contest PALMDALE - A glider pilot among dozens taking part in a journey to Kitty Hawk, N.C., commemorating the centennial of the Wright brothers' first powered flight was killed Thursday when he crashed in the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los . Authorities said the crash occurred about 5:45 p.m., four miles southeast of the Crystalaire Airport in Llano lla·no n. pl. lla·nos A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America. [Spanish, plain, from Latin pl , 20 miles east of Palmdale. The gliders took off about noon from the airport and landed hours later in Jean, Nev., said Dale Masters, a flight instructor with the Great Western Soaring School, which hosted the takeoff. The Wrights had experimented in gliders before powered flight. Masters said the dead pilot was Eugene Carapetyan, 61, who lived in the Los Angeles area. - Associated Press |
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