BRIEFLY ROBBERY SUSPECT FATALLY WOUNDED.NORTH HOLLYWOOD - A 27-year-old man was shot to death Wednesday when he tried to rob a North Hollywood smoke shop at gunpoint, 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. police said. Brij Mehra of Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. got into an argument with his girlfriend and took her handgun before arriving at Combat Industries on 12718 Sherman Way, where he demanded money about 12:30 a.m., said Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Officer Jason Lee. When Mehra walked to the rear of the business, three people inside attempted to escape, Lee said. One of three grabbed a shotgun kept by the store's owner, and Mehra was wounded in a shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. , he said. Mehra was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died of his wounds, Lee said. Three people in the store were questioned and later released. The District Attorney's Office will review the case for any possible charges. - Daily News Bike officer hurt in crash with car VAN NUYS - A Huntington Park Huntington Park, city (1990 pop. 56,065), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential and industrial suburb of Los Angeles; founded 1856, inc. 1906. Its varied manufactures include metal, glass and rubber products and industrial equipment. police officer riding his department-issued motorcycle to work suffered minor injuries in a collision with a car in Van Nuys on Wednesday evening, police said. The crash at Victory Boulevard and Valjean Avenue was reported at 6:07 p.m., said Sgt. Fred Meck of the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Traffic Division. The motorcycle officer lives in the neighborhood and was headed to Huntington Park, Meck said. The bike hit a car that made a left turn in front of it, he said. The officer complained of back pain and was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a hospital in the Northridge town of Los Angeles, California, USA. It is currently operated by Catholic Healthcare West. History The hospital was founded in 1955 by Dr. to be examined, Meck said. - City News Service Unions endorse three for council The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. , announced Wednesday that it is endorsing Julie Korenstein, Antonio Villaraigosa and Martin Ludlow in the March 4 election for Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. . Korenstein, a member of the Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board, is running in the Northwest Valley's 12th District, where term limits force incumbent Hal Bernson to leave the council. Villaraigosa, the former state Assembly speaker who lost a 2001 race for mayor against James Hahn, is challenging incumbent Nick Pacheco in the 14th District. Ludlow is running for the 10th District seat, which termed-out incumbent Nate Holden will vacate To annul, set aside, or render void; to surrender possession or occupancy. The term vacate has two common usages in the law. With respect to real property, to vacate the premises means to give up possession of the property and leave the area totally devoid of contents. . - Daily News Hospital releases shooting victim NORTHRIDGE - Shot in the belly by a man believed to have set fire to his own house, a Los Angeles firefighter was released from the hospital Wednesday after an overnight stay. Yandell Bishop, released from Northridge Hospital Medical Center, said he felt ``a little sore, a little confused, a little disbelief.'' Bishop, 42, who plans to be married next week, was one of the first at the scene of a Northridge blaze, which broke out about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. The man believed to have set the blaze, George Lancaster Springer, shot Bishop and injured two other firefighters before shooting himself to death, police said. - Daily News Unidentified body found by freeway LAKE VIEW TERRACE - Authorities asked for the public's help Wednesday in identifying a man's body that a truck driver discovered on the shoulder of an off-ramp on the Foothill Freeway in Lake View Terrace. The find on the southbound freeway at Wheatland Avenue was made about 6:20 a.m. Wednesday, said Los Angeles police Officer Jason Lee. Anyone with information about the dead man's identity was asked to call police at (818) 756-8861. - City News Service |
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