BRIEFLY LOCKER MAY HAVE MISSING MAN IN IT.VAN NUYS - Police were investigating the contents of a storage locker Wednesday night in search of a body, possibly a man reported missing for nine days, officials said. 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. police opened the locker Wednesday night at the Erwin Business Center in the 15100 block of Erwin Street and found a container emitting a strong odor of decay. Earlier in the afternoon, the FBI received a tip from an individual who personally knew one of the bureau's agents. ``They said they believed there may have been some foul play foul play n. Unfair or treacherous action, especially when involving violence. foul play Noun 1. violent activity esp. murder 2. involved and the missing person was inside,'' said Detective Mike Oppelt of the Los Angeles Police Department's Devonshire Division. The missing man was believed to have been connected to a Chatsworth shooting between two neighbors Jan. 22, Opelt said. - Daily News Burbank jet firm to pay in deaths BURBANK - A Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, charter jet company must pay $10.2 million to families of three people killed in a 2001 plane crash in Aspen, Colo., a jury ruled Wednesday. Burbank-based Avjet Corp. was ordered to pay Lyle and Laurence Witham $4.25 million each for the death of their daughter, 22-year-old Marissa Witham, a news employee at Fox affiliate KTTV. The company must also pay $1.7 million to Aurora Garcia, whose grandsons - Jose and Joseph Aguilar - also were killed in the crash. The eight-man, four-woman panel also found sufficient evidence of wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong  do to permit the two families to seek punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. against
Avjet and the heirs of Robert Frisbie, who piloted the plane and also
perished in the March 29, 2001, crash.
- Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Moorpark squad has full itinerary MOORPARK - Moorpark High School's national championship academic decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. team continues to reap local honors. The team - Adam Abed, Max Geiger, Lindsay Hebert, Paul Ideal, Nathaniel Jones For the judge who sits on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, see . Nathaniel Jones died in December 2003 after assaulting Cincinnati police and resisting their attempts to arrest him outside a White Castle hamburger shop in Cincinnati, Ohio. , Kevin Randolph, Ashlee Scott, Grant Volk and Tracy Yagi ya·gi n. pl. ya·gis A directional radio and television antenna consisting of a horizontal conductor with several insulated dipoles parallel to and in the plane of the conductor. - will travel with their coach, Larry Jones, to Washington, D.C., on July 21 where they will tour the Capitol and meet with legislators including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly and U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. The team also was scheduled to be introduced at home plate Wednesday night at the Anaheim Angels baseball game and will travel to Sacramento on Tuesday with Jones to meet with legislators and then will meet State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell on Wednesday. - Daily News Glendale woman ID'd in shooting GLENDALE - A woman found shot to death inside a Glendale home has been identified as 48-year-old Sonia Anne Villa Hermosa, coroner's officials said. The Glendale resident was visiting a family friend in the 1500 block of Cleveland Road, where she died of a shotgun wound to the chest on June 22. ``She was visiting her friend, the suspect's uncle, and he lived with his sister and her two sons,'' said Glendale police spokeswoman Leticia Chang. Police are still investigating the motive for the shooting. Police arrested Robert Norman Svelund, 42, of Glendale on suspicion of murder, officials said. - Daily News |
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