BRIEFLY PARENTS FILE SUIT IN SCHOOL DEATH.SUN VALLEY - The parents of a 7-year-old boy hit and pinned against a steel container by a janitor's runaway golf cart at a Sun Valley school last year sued 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. Unified and others Tuesday for wrongful death The taking of the life of an individual resulting from the willful or negligent act of another person or persons. If a person is killed because of the wrongful conduct of a person or persons, the decedent's heirs and other beneficiaries may file a wrongful death action . The LAUSD's Hilda Ramirez declined to comment on the specific allegations in the lawsuit. The accident happened Sept. 15 during an after-school program at Roscoe Elementary School elementary school: see school. . - City News Service Car-pool lane's halfway finished A $20.5 million car-pool lane along the southbound San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. between 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. and West Los Angeles
When finished in December, the lane will extend from the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. to Sunset Boulevard, said Judy Gish of Caltrans. - City News Service Hospital panel may come back WESTLAKE VILLAGE - The City Council is scheduled tonight to consider re-establishing an ad-hoc hospital committee, which was disbanded a year ago. The Thousand Oaks City Council last month voted to explore the feasibility of locating a second hospital in the area, prompting Westlake Village officials to look at the issue again. The Westlake Village council also will continue its discussion on the conceptual master plan for the $400,000 Foxfield Park project. - Daily News Collections rise for child support VENTURA - The Ventura County District Attorney's Child Support Division collected $48 million last fiscal year, an 8.7 percent increase from 1999-2000. In the last three years the division has increased the child support collections by 27.5 percent, officials said. - Daily News Relative testifies to man's violence SAN FERNANDO - A man accused of murdering two of of his 14 children had a violent temper and created a living hell in his home, a relative testified Tuesday in San Fernando. Maria Ricardo, a sister-in-law of the defendant - Marco Barrera - took the witness stand Tuesday in her own defense. She's charged with child endangerment and being an accessory after the fact to murder. Barrera is charged with the 1997 murder of his daughter, 2-year-old Guadalupe ``Lupita'' Esquivel, and the 1998 murder of his 5-year-old son, Ernesto Barragon. - City News Service |
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