BRIEFLY POWER OUTAGE HITS THE WEST VALLEY.WINNETKA - Several hundred customers in Chatsworth and Winnetka lost power early Thursday when three circuits in different locations went down, Department of Water and Power officials said. DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection crews were able to restore power to most customers within several hours of the 1 a.m. outage, although about 100 homes in Winnetka still were without electricity well into the morning while workers repaired the underground line. - Daily News Man enters plea in child porn case VENTURA - A 23-year-old Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. man has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of possessing child pornography Child pornography is the visual representation of minors under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity or the visual representation of minors engaging in lewd or erotic behavior designed to arouse the viewer's sexual interest. with the intent to distribute it, officials said. Blair Lonergan was released Tuesday on his own recognizance own recognizance (O.R.) n. the basis for a judge allowing a person accused of a crime to be free while awaiting trial, without posting bail, on the defendant's own promise to appear and his/her reputation. but is prohibited from having unsupervised contact with minors and from using the Internet outside work. Lonergan is charged with one count of possessing child porn and one felony count of intent to distribute it. If convicted, he could face up to three years in state prison. - Daily News 2 gang recruiters to serve jail time Two men were given jail time Thursday for making criminal threats and brandishing firearms in an attempt to recruit minors into a criminal street gang, Los Angeles City Attorney The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. Rocky Delgadillo Rockard John "Rocky" Delgadillo (born July 15 1960) is the current City Attorney of Los Angeles, California. Career
Juan Carlos Fuentes, 23, and William Gonzalez, 21, were convicted Dec. 6. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Kanner sentenced Fuentes to a year in county jail, and Gonzalez to two years. ``For too long, generations of Angelenos have been lost to the hopeless cycle of gangs and violence,'' Delgadillo said. ``We will no longer tolerate gang members recruiting our children for their criminal enterprise.'' On numerous occasions, Delgadillo said, Fuentes and Gonzales tried to bring three minors, ages 14, 16 and 16, into the Mara Salvatruche street gang. - City News Service Charge says union unfair over dues An unfair labor practice Conduct prohibited by federal law regulating relations between employers, employees, and labor organizations. Before 1935 U.S. labor unions received little protection from the law. charge was filed Thursday on behalf of a Universal Studios worker who says a Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor local kept deducting dues from his paychecks after he quit the union. The National Right to Work Foundation filed the charge with the National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent agency of the U.S. government created under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), and amended by the acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) and 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act), which affirmed labor's right for Hyo Lim and against Teamsters Local 399. The local provides drivers, mechanics and animal trainers, among other workers, for the film and TV industry. An employee at the North Hollywood office of Local 399 would not comment on the matter, saying no papers had been served. - City News Service Settlement halts tire-injury trial A tentative settlement was announced Thursday in a lawsuit by the family of a woman who claimed she was injured when a faulty tire caused her Ford Explorer to roll over, her attorney said. The move came as a civil trial against Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone was about to begin in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The companies ``came up with an offer'' during jury selection, said Ed Kimble, a spokesman for attorney Garo Mardirossian, who represents the family of Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. Castro. The woman's family sued the companies after she suffered a broken neck and brain damage in a crash in May 1999 on a Los Angeles freeway. The lawsuit claimed the crash occurred when tread separated from a tire. Terms of the agreement were not revealed. Kimble characterized the development as a settlement in principle and said the case has not yet been dismissed. - Associated Press |
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