BRIEFLY PRISON ORDERED IN ATTACK ON GIRL.VAN NUYS - A 19-year-old Birmingham High School Birmingham High School is a public coeducational high school in the neighborhood/district of Lake Balboa in the San Fernando Valley section of the city of Los Angeles, California. The school is a part of District One of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). student senior was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for assaulting a 17-year-old girl who was raped by others after passing out during an off-campus ditch party in December. Nathaniel Sanchez pleaded no contest Aug. 16 to assault with intent to commit rape. Jose Sanchez, the defendant's 18-year-old brother, and Alejandro Zamora, 17, were convicted of raping an unconscious person. A 14-year-old Van Nuys boy was sentenced to a juvenile camp after pleading guilty to being an accessory to the rape after the fact. - Daily News L.A. firefighters help New Yorkers At least 100 off-duty 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. firefighters, using their vacation time and own money, will go to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of today to present a check for more than $2.2 million to victims of Sept. 11 attacks. The firefighters have been raising funds since Sept. 11, a spokesman said. The check will be presented Saturday. - City News Service Local Catholics raise relief funds The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has collected $1.65 million since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and money will be used in Los Angeles and sent to diocesan bishops in New York and Washington, D.C., to help in relief efforts, officials said Thursday. - Daily News Parents graduate in school program PACOIMA - Parents will be wearing graduation caps today when Sharp Avenue and San Fernando elementary schools The main building of the San Fernando Elementary School follows Standard Plan No. 20 of Gabaldon schoolhouses. honor moms and dads who studied in a national parents-school partnership program. Twenty-six parents completed the Latino advocacy group's nine-week training program sponsored by a Latino advocacy group to raise parental involvement and awareness of what it will take to help get their kids to college. - Daily News UC to weigh ability to leap obstacles SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - Adversity could spur diversity under a new University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). admissions policy that will judge would-be students on their personal as well as their academic records. The policy, known as comprehensive review, was approved Thursday. - 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. L.A. trial judge gains promotion Gov. Gray Davis announced Thursday the appointment of veteran Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Ashmann as an associate justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal. Ashmann, 57, of Los Angeles, has been a trial judge for 20 years and had previously served as supervising judge of the North Valley District. - City News Service Roberti to work on redistricting redistricting: see legislative apportionment. Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge Tom LaBonge (b. Los Angeles 1953), member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 4th district. He has served since 2001, taking over the position upon the death of John Ferraro. appointed former state Sen. David Roberti, a former rival in the City Council election, to the commission charged with designing new City Council districts. - City News Service Van Nuys resident hit, killed by car PANORAMA CITY - A man who was hit and killed by a car as he crossed Roscoe Boulevard outside of a marked crosswalk was identified Thursday as Jose Albarado Escobedo, 56, of Van Nuys, police said. The pedestrian was hit by a white Mazda traveling westbound at about 6:10 p.m. Wednesday in the 14200 block, police said. - Daily News |
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