BRIEFLY PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN GLENDALE CRASH.GLENDALE - A woman died after a man driving a 1986 Toyota Supra hit her as she crossed Chevy Chase Drive near Orange Grove Avenue, Glendale police said. The woman was walking as she was hit by the car shortly after 10 a.m. Friday and died in Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday, officials said. The driver was going south on Chevy Chase Drive when he hit the woman, police said. The death was under investigation. - Daily News Woman shot in leg outside pool hall GLENDALE - One woman shot another in the leg in an altercation at a parking lot behind a billiard bil·liard adj. Of, relating to, or used in billiards. n. See carom. Adj. 1. billiard - of or relating to billiards; "a billiard ball"; "a billiard cue"; "a billiard table" hall in the 200 block of North Brand Boulevard early Saturday, Glendale police said. The victim was taken to Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center with wounds that did not appear life-threatening, police said. The woman who shot her remained at large Saturday afternoon. - Daily News Police arrest 16 after group attack BURBANK - Police arrested 16 people on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. late Friday after a fight where the suspects allegedly attacked several people, police said. A Burbank Police Department The Burbank Police Department is the police department serving Burbank, California. Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. statement said the attack resulted in one victim's hospitalization with ``serious injuries due to blunt trauma blunt trauma Molecular Any injury sustained from blunt force, which may be related to MVAs, or mishaps, falls or jumps, blows or crush injuries from animals, blunt objects or unarmed assailants. Cf Penetrating trauma. .'' All but three of the suspects were juveniles. After beating their victims in front of an apartment building on the 2000 block of North Niagara Street around 10:15 p.m., all 16 suspects got into an SUV and drove toward Los Angeles, officials said. Police stopped the SUV and made the arrests near Riverside Drive and Cahuenga Avenue in North Hollywood. Officers then took the suspects back to the scene, where witnesses identified them, according to the report. - Daily News Two suspects flee cops in stolen car SANTA CLARITA - A woman and a man in a stolen sports car escaped police early Saturday after a brief chase that ended by the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. (5) south of Magic Mountain. The short pursuit began around 3:15 a.m in the northbound freeway lanes near the McBean Parkway, officials said. Officers chased the suspects for less than a minute before the woman driving and her male passenger got out of the car and escaped. Police impounded the silver Chevrolet Corvette corvette, small warship, classed between a frigate and a sloop-of-war. Corvettes usually were flush-decked and carried fewer than 28 guns. They were widely employed in escorting convoys and attacking merchant ships during the great naval wars of the late 18th and reported stolen from the Los Angeles Police Department's Devonshire area in 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. on Friday. - Daily News Officials search producer's house CALABASAS - The home of one of Michael Jackson's former music producers was searched Saturday, authorities confirmed, but it wasn't disclosed how or if the search was connected to the sex abuse charges the entertainer is facing. Sheriff's investigators from Santa Barbara County, where Jackson's case is unfolding, searched the Calabasas residence of Marc Schaffel, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy John Caffrey. His agency did not take part in the search, Caffrey said, but was notified because Schaffel's home is in Los Angeles County. He said the search took place between 3 and 4 p.m. Santa Barbara County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Chris Pappas declined to say whether a search warrant was executed, citing a judge's gag order A court order to gag or bind an unruly defendant or remove her or him from the courtroom in order to prevent further interruptions in a trial. In a trial with a great deal of notoriety, a court order directed to attorneys and witnesses not to discuss the case with the media—such prohibiting all parties involved in Jackson's case from commenting. Jackson has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of lewd or lascivious las·civ·i·ous adj. 1. Given to or expressing lust; lecherous. 2. Exciting sexual desires; salacious. [Middle English, from Late Latin lasc acts with a child under 14 and two counts of giving the child an ``intoxicating in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. agent,'' reportedly wine. He is free on $3 million bail pending trial. - Associated Press |
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