BRIEFLY SPELLING BEE TODAY FOR LOCAL CHAMPS.The Los Angeles Daily News The Daily News of Los Angeles, also known as the Los Angeles Daily News, is the second largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is published by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns eight other Southern California newspapers today will sponsor the 16th annual Regional Spelling Bee spelling bee n. A contest in which competitors are eliminated as they fail to spell a given word correctly. Also called spelldown. Noun 1. , drawing seventh- and eighth-grade champions from public and private schools across the area to the competition at Taft High School. Daily News columnist Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
The winner will go on to represent the region at the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. - Daily News Swingers' club host convicted VAN NUYS - A man prosecutors say ran a swingers' club at a Van Nuys house was convicted Friday of misdemeanor criminal charges. A Van Nuys Superior Court jury found John Lynch For other persons named John Lynch, see John Lynch (disambiguation). John H. Lynch (born November 25 1952, Waltham, Massachusetts) is the current Governor of New Hampshire. , 50, guilty of five counts of operating a sex-encounters business within 500 feet of a residential area. Lynch is scheduled to be sentenced Monday and faces a maximum of three years in county jail and a $5,000 fine. Lynch had contended that no one was paying money to perform or watch sex acts, Deputy City Attorney Michael Pizzuti said. The business was raided by undercover police officers who videotaped some of the sex acts occurring in the house, Pizzuti said. - City News Service Donations mount for clinic's move An East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. community group made a $650,000 loan to the Valley Community Clinic to assist with its expansion and relocation, it was announced Friday. The loan from the East Los Angeles Community Union matches another gift from the Valley Economic Development Center, giving the clinic $1.3 million for its relocation efforts. The clinic, which an official said is the Valley's largest health care provider for uninsured residents, is moving to a bigger site in North Hollywood. - City News Service Senators demand Field Lab cleanup SIMI VALLEY - U.S. Sens. Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer on Friday called on the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and to clean up the Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Lab to meet strict standards. The senators wrote jointly to the agency heads, urging cleanup to the more strict EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. standards that allow for less cancer risks than those now being considered for the site. - Daily News United Way to aid 9-11 unemployed The United Way of Greater Los Angeles plans to help people who lost their jobs and are in jeopardy of becoming homeless after Sept. 11, officials said Friday. The Help the Homeless Program, funded partly with a $600,000 grant from the California Endowment, will provide rental and mortgage assistance and other services, said Joe Haggerty of the United Way. The Fannie Mae Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. Foundation also gave $179,000 to the effort to target families who are at risk of losing their homes because of the economic impact of the attacks. - City News Service Weiss: Ban stores selling to kids Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss introduced a motion Friday to outlaw stores selling tobacco or drug paraphernalia drug paraphernalia Controlled paraphernalia Substance abuse As defined in a regulatory context, DP is a hypodermic syringe, needle, metal or plastic (snorting) tube, or other instrument or implement or combination adapted for the administration of controlled within 500 feet of a school. Weiss said he was driven to act after receiving complaints from parents of students at Fairfax High, where a store selling such merchandise opened across the street on trendy Melrose Avenue. - City News Service 6 indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. in meth meth n. Methamphetamine hydrochloride. lab investigation LANCASTER - Authorities on Friday announced the indictments of six suspects in connection with a High Desert methamphetamine manufacturing ring. Those arrested are Christopher Chapman, Jesse Chapman, Armcello Castellano, Deena Beatty and Bobby Bear, all of Lancaster, said sheriff's Lt. R.W. Shreves. A sixth suspect, who has not been publicly identified, remained at large. The five were arraigned in federal court Friday and held without bail, Shreves said. The indictments are part of a two-year, Lancaster-area meth ring investigation, dubbed Operation Silent Thunder, he said. - City News Service |
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