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BRIEFLY SCHOOL SEEKS PROBE OF 'METHANE' SMELL.


After several parents complained of a methanelike odor in the air while dropping their children off at school, officials at Van Gogh Street Elementary called the Air Quality Management District to seek an investigation.

According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 school Principal Donna Zero, the odor was noticeable from approximately 8 to 8:30 a.m. before dissipating. An LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA)  inspection team visited the school and confirmed that the odor was not coming from the campus.

Van Gogh Street School is located near the Sunshine Canyon Landfill, whose officials did not return calls on Wednesday.

Zero said though she has only been at the school since August similar odors have been reported in the past.

- Daily News

Ex-coach gets 18 years for sex acts

A judge sentenced a 46-year-old 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.
 man and former Little League coach to 18 years in state prison Wednesday for committing sexual acts on four boys over a period of more than five years.

Charles J. Guerrero, a former West Valley Little League coach pleaded guilty on March 7 to three counts of continuous sexual abuse against a child, and one count to lewd acts with a child.

- Daily News

Suspect in slaying, rape denies guilt

A reputed gang associate pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he carjacked, kidnapped, raped and murdered a young Glendale woman and dumped her body in a Culver City park last month.

Jason Thompson, 23, is being held without bail in connection with the Feb. 22 slaying of Roberta Louise Happe of Glendale.

- City News Service

Man misses the bus for his arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted  

A man convicted with his mother of murdering a 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
 socialite was extradited to Los Angeles to stand trial on a charge that he murdered a Granada Hills businessman three years ago, authorities said.

Kenneth Kimes, 25, had been expected to make his first court appearance in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon, but missed the bus from jail, where he was being processed.

He is expected to be arraigned this morning in connection with the March 13, 1998, shooting death of David Kazdin, whose body was dumped into a trash bin near Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation).

“KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation).

Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX
.

- City News Service

Police seek second culprit in store theft

VAN NUYS - Police detained one man Wednesday and were searching for another in connection with a robbery at a Circuit City store in Van Nuys where the crooks took $300 in Sony PlayStation video games, police said.

Police did not identify the man caught Wednesday afternoon after police had set up a perimeter around the store and found him hiding underneath a house in the 13700 block of Victory Boulevard.

- Daily News

Pot, lidocaine lidocaine /li·do·caine/ (li´do-kan) an anesthetic with sedative, analgesic, and cardiac depressant properties, applied topically in the form of the base or hydrochloride salt as a local anesthetic; also used in the latter form as a  tied to hit-and-run case

Traces of marijuana and lidocaine were found in the system of David Edward Attias, an 18-year-old Santa Monica teen accused of deliberately running down and killing four young people near University of California, Santa Barbara History
The predecessor to UCSB, Santa Barbara State College, focused on teacher training, industrial arts, home economics, and foreign languages. Intense lobbying by an interest group in the City of Santa Barbara led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase persuaded the State
, last month, the CHP CHP Chapter
CHP Combined Heat and Power
CHP California Highway Patrol
CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party)
CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA)
CHP Community Health Plan
 said Wednesday.

Lidocaine is a local anesthetic local anesthetic
n.
An agent that, when applied directly to mucous membranes or when injected about the nerves, produces loss of sensation by inhibiting nerve excitation or conduction.
 that is sometimes used as a cutting agent to dilute other drugs, CHP Bob Clements said.

- City News Service

Friends, family rally against deportation

Friends and family of a 30-year-old mother of five facing deportation to Mexico after being picked up for a traffic violation demonstrated Wednesday outside the Federal Building.

Martha Mauricio's supporters say the woman who has lived in this country 12 years should be released from custody so she can care for her U.S.-born children, ages 6 months to 9.

- City News Service
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