BRIEFLY MAX FACTOR HEIR DENIES RAPING 3.VENTURA - Max Factor heir Andrew Luster has pleaded not guilty to charges he drugged and raped three women and videotaped the encounters with two of them. Luster, 37, entered the pleas this week to 87 criminal counts and was ordered to trial Oct. 29. He is accused of using the date-rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate butyrate /bu·ty·rate/ (bu´ti-rat) a salt, ester, or anionic form of butyric acid. bu·ty·rate n. A salt or ester of butyric acid. butyrate a salt of butyric acid. , or GHB GHB abbr. gamma-hydroxybutyrate GHB 1 Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, γ-hydroxy-butyrate See GABA 2 Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there GHb Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there , to incapacitate in·ca·pac·i·tate tr.v. in·ca·pac·i·tat·ed, in·ca·pac·i·tat·ing, in·ca·pac·i·tates 1. To deprive of strength or ability; disable. 2. To make legally ineligible; disqualify. the women. Luster insists the encounters were consensual. - Associated Press Valley cop station construction OK'd Citing it as an example of the new commitment to the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, 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. , the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Tuesday approved a new approach to construction of the proposed police station for the North Valley area. Under the council action, the station, parking structure and a garage will be built in one phase as part of that $29.5 million project. - Daily News Delgadillo hires U.S. prosecutor City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo announced Tuesday he has hired a federal prosecutor as his chief of staff. Terree A. Bowers, a federal prosecutor since 1992 who was acting chief of prosecutions on the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the , will be in charge of office administration and also serve as a legal adviser to Delgadillo. Bowers was a high-profile federal attorney in Los Angeles in 1992 and 1993. He handled cases including the Rodney King civil rights trial and the Charles Keating fraud trial. - Daily News College gets grant for students' kids SYLMAR - The state has awarded Los Angeles Mission College Los Angeles Mission College is a two-year community college located in Sylmar, California neighborhood of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District. a one-year, $446,346 grant that will cover child-care costs for low-income parents who want to attend the community college, it was announced Tuesday. - City News Service Whooping cough breaks out in area THOUSAND OAKS - Residents are being warned about an outbreak of whooping cough in the Conejo Valley. Ventura County Public Health Services officials said a 12-year-old Thousand Oaks boy was treated for whooping cough, also known as pertussis pertussis: see whooping cough. , after being diagnosed July 3. The disease can be fatal for small children. Health officials cautioned residents that even if a child has been vaccinated, the effects will wear off around the ages of 10, 11 and 12. - Associated Press Man suspected of bomb threat A 47-year-old Burbank man who allegedly made a bomb threat at the main gate to March Air Force Base in Riverside County on Tuesday was arrested on suspicion of stealing his parents' van, which he parked nearby, officials said. - City News Service |
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