BRIEFLY SHELTER WORKER GETS PROBATION.A former Glendale Humane Society A humane society is a group that aims to stop animal suffering due to cruelty or other reasons. Examples Examples of humane societies include: The Humane Society of the United States, Peninsula Humane Society, American Humane which was founded in 1877 as a network of employee was sentenced Wednesday to three years felony probation for animal cruelty and for taking money and personal property from the organization over a seven-month period. Gerald Martin Gracian, 35, who worked as a shelter adoption counselor, pleaded no contest to one count each of grand theft by embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. and animal cruelty. 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. Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson Barbara Johnson (b. 1947) is an American literary critic and translator. She is currently a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. also ordered Gracian to complete 2,000 hours of community service, undergo daily counseling and stay away from the Humane Society and all city animal control centers, officials said. - City News Service Bikeway bike·way n. A bicycle lane or path. route project delayed BURBANK - Construction of the planned Chandler Boulevard Bikeway Project has again been delayed while the city works out a license agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Construction of the route along Chandler Boulevard from Mariposa Street to Clybourn Avenue is now expected to begin in August and be completed next February. Residents have long waited for the project, which has been riddled with bureaucratic delays at various levels, to start. ``This has got to be the most frustrating project known to man,'' Councilman Dave Golonski said. - Daily News Applications up at Occidental EAGLE ROCK - Occidental College received a record number of applications for a fourth consecutive year, topping 4,000 for the first time in the college's 115-year history, officials said Wednesday. As of Feb. 7, the small liberal arts college Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge had received 4,121 applications, up 15 percent from 3,574 at the same time last year. - Daily News |
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