BRIEFLY OJAI MAN DROWNS IN LAKE CASITAS.OJAI - A 64-year-old man who died after falling overboard from a sailboat on Lake Casitas Lake Casitas is a lake in Ventura County, California. It was formed by Casitas Dam on Coyote Creek, two miles (3 km) before it joins the Ventura River. Santa Ana Creek and North Fork Coyote Creek also flow into the lake. was identified Monday as John Douglas John Douglas is a name shared by a number of notable individuals:
Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. divers recovered Keith's body about 1:15 p.m. Sunday, more than a day after the accident. Keith apparently stumbled and fell overboard, Sgt. Larry Meyers said. His body was found in about 10 feet of water and within 100 yards of where witnesses saw him fall. - 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. Reopening LAX's main road mulled The 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. Board of Airport Commissioners will hear a report today regarding the security risks associated with reopening LAX's main thoroughfare to private vehicles. The commissioners will be briefed by Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX Police Chief Bernard J. Wilson and airport staff members on the possibility of reopening the road, among other security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security . At its meeting last week, the panel directed Wilson and airport management to look into alternate security measures and report back at this week's meeting, said Tom Winfrey of Los Angeles World Airports Los Angeles World Airports or LAWA is the airport oversight and operations department for the city of Los Angeles, California. This department owns and operates Los Angeles International Airport, LA/Ontario International Airport, Palmdale Regional Airport, and Van . ``They'll talk about all the measures that are in place now,'' Winfrey said. ``The closure of the Central Terminal Area is one of the measures in place.'' Only licensed commercial vehicles - taxis, shuttle buses and limousines - are allowed on the airport's inner road now. - City News Service Strickland won't seek county post CAMARILLO - Assemblyman Tony Strickland, R-Moorpark, announced Monday he will not run to replace retiring Ventura County Supervisor Frank Schillo of Thousand Oaks. Strickland, who faces term limits in 2004, had toyed with the idea of running for the nonpartisan 2nd District job during the uncertainty of state redistricting redistricting: see legislative apportionment. . So far, only Thousand Oaks City Councilwoman Linda Parks has formally announced her candidacy for Schillo's seat. - Daily News Carjacker guilty of man's murder VAN NUYS - A Pacoima man was convicted Monday of special-circumstances murder for the abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. and death of a 30-year-old Woodland Hills man who had just arrived home from the grocery store in his Bentley. The Van Nuys Superior Court jury deliberated about a day before convicting Kirell Francis Taylor, 26, of first-degree murder for the Feb. 10, 1999, death of Christopher Rawlings, who was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point at his home on Feb. 8, 1999, and forced into the trunk of his car. Officers chased the driver until he crashed the car into a utility pole and tree, and Rawlings was thrown from the trunk into a brick wall. He died at a hospital two days later. Taylor also was found guilty of four special-circumstance allegations of murder during the commission of a carjacking The criminal taking of a motor vehicle from its driver by force, violence, or intimidation. The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger , kidnapping, burglary and robbery. Jurors also convicted Taylor of eight other counts, including two each of carjacking, kidnapping and robbery, and one each of burglary and evading, causing death. Taylor faces a life prison term without parole when he is sentenced Oct. 17. - City News Service Attacks' effects on state gauged VAN NUYS - A newly created task force will hold public hearings to gauge the impact of the East Coast terrorist attacks on California's economy and public safety, Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, announced Monday. The bipartisan Speaker's Task Force on the Impact of Terrorism on California will hold its first meeting Tuesday in Sacramento. At the closed session, officials will brief members on the state of security in California since the Sept. 11 attacks. A public hearing will follow in Los Angeles on Oct. 15 to examine both the security and economic implications facing the state. - City News Service Benefit to jobless boosted by Davis SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a flurry of bills Monday, including a measure boosting unemployment benefits, four energy-related measures and an effort to prevent meningitis outbreaks. Under Senate Bill 40, authored by Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-San Fernando, people who are laid off will receive maximum weekly checks of $330 starting Jan. 1, up from $230 per week. There will be additional increases of $40 per week in each year until 2005, when the maximum unemployment insurance check will be $450 per week. - Associated Press |
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