BRIEFLY LAPD CONCLUDES PARTHENIA SWEEP.NORTHRIDGE - After a 15-hour push Thursday, 65 officers with the LAPD's Zero Tolerance The policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance and enhance deterrence. Since the 1980s the phrase zero tolerance has signified a philosophy toward illegal conduct that favors strict imposition of Task Force wrote 478 traffic tickets, impounded 36 vehicles and made 34 arrests along the Parthenia corridor in Northridge and Canoga Park. The task force is part of a weekly thrust by the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . to tame some of the most violent San Fernando Valley San Fernando ValleyValley, 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. streets. Police commanders chose the Parthenia corridor - bordered by Nordhoff Street, Roscoe Boulevard, Lindley Avenue and Topanga Canyon Boulevard - because of a recent increase in violent crime. Over the past few months, police have recorded two homicides there, one of which was gang-related. - Daily News Hollywood Blvd. repaving finished HOLLYWOOD - 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. city officials on Friday marked the end of a repaving project intended to clean up bumps, cracks and potholes along historic Hollywood Boulevard For uses other than the original street, see Hollywood Boulevard (disambiguation). Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out . The stretch of the boulevard from Gower Street Gower Street may be referring to one of the following:
The area now includes Metro Red Line stations, the Hollywest Promenade retail center, hundreds of housing units currently under development and the recently designated Thai Town and Little Armenia Little Armenia: see Cilicia. Little Armenia or Lesser Armenia Ancient kingdom, southeastern coast of Anatolia. After initial struggles with the Byzantine Empire, it was established in Cilicia by the Armenian Rubenid dynasty in the communities, Garcetti said. ``Fixing the boulevard is just one more way the city is turning Hollywood around,'' he said. ``By sticking together, we can ensure that this momentum keeps going.'' - City News Service 2 men sentenced in aunt's killing PASADENA - A Pasadena man and his roommate were sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the beating death of his 72-year-old great-aunt, whose bound body was found in a bathtub. The District Attorney's Office decided not to seek the death penalty for Nathan Charles Sheard, 23, and David Talmadge, 25, who were convicted of special-circumstances murder in the April 1999 robbery and slaying of Gertrude Mills in her home on West Figueroa Drive in Altadena. Sheard made no comment when sentenced by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Tricia Ann Bigelow. But his father maintained after the hearing that his son had wrongly been accused. The judge called Mills' home ``a chamber of horrors'' and said the woman was struck in the head with a hammer, beaten and placed face-down in a bathtub with a portable heater placed on top of her. - City News Service Motorcyclist hurt in hit-run collision RESEDA - A 39-year-old motorcyclist was in critical but stable condition Friday night after he was hit by a van, whose driver fled the scene, Los Angeles police said. Investigators were questioning a suspect in the hit-and-run crash late Friday, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Jason Manning. Motorcyclist John Hendrickson was in the 18700 block of Sherman Way about 6:15 p.m. when his cycle was hit by a 1998 Dodge Caravan, Manning said. Hendrickson was transported to UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. It is rated as one of the top three hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. . - Daily News |
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