BRIEFLY SUSPECT CAUGHT IN FATAL SHOOTING.VAN NUYS - Homicide detectives were investigating a shooting Wednesday that left a 25-year-old man dead after a dispute near an In-N-Out hamburger restaurant, police said. The unidentified man, said to have been with his wife when he was shot, was confronted around 1:30 p.m. in the 79000 block of Van Nuys Boulevard by an assailant who fled. The gunman shot the victim several times. After a four-hour search, officers arrested a suspect in Panorama City, authorities said. The man in his 20s was collared without incident about 5 p.m. near Van Nuys and Roscoe boulevards after a search that involved tracking dogs, said 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 Officer Jason Lee. - Daily News Trio hospitalized in two-car crash MISSION HILLS - A North Hills man was critically injured and two others were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries Wednesday morning when a vehicle apparently ran a red light and hit a minivan, police said. - Daily News Professor named to ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. top post Loyola Law School Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Jesuit school in Los Angeles, California. Loyola was established in 1920. Like Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (separate and unaffiliated professor Gary Williams was elected Wednesday night as president of the ACLU of Southern California's board of directors. - City News Service Search continues for bank robber THOUSAND OAKS - Police on Wednesday continued searching for a man who robbed a Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. branch on 954 S. Westlake Blvd. The man, dressed in a business suit, entered the bank at 4:12 p.m., Tuesday and handed a teller a note demanding money. He was last seen walking north along Westlake toward Townsgate Road. The robber was described as Asian, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds with dark wavy hair and about 30 years old. - Daily News Council OKs deal in imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Wednesday approved a $450,000 settlement to a former gang member imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- for 18 months on false accusations by police that he tried to run down two officers in his pickup truck. - Daily News Retrofit grant deal reopened in L.A. The state Insurance Commission announced Wednesday that it is reopening its Earthquake Retrofit Grant Program in Los Angeles County. Grants of up to $30,000 are available to low- to moderate-income households to retrofit against quake damage. Grant applications must be postmarked by March 15. For information, call (800) 927-4357, or go to www.insurance.ca.gov. - Daily News Forum to be held for clerk-recorder OXNARD - A forum for the six candidates vying for the Ventura County Clerk and Recorder job will be held Feb. 5 at the Radisson Hotel, 600 Esplanade Drive. The forum will take place at the Rotary Club of Oxnard's regular lunch meeting. Lunch is at 12:10 p.m. and the cost is $12. The forum is from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m. To R.S.V.P., call Don Miller at (805) 485-7523. - Daily News Stolen nitric acid nitric acid, chemical compound, HNO3, colorless, highly corrosive, poisonous liquid that gives off choking red or yellow fumes in moist air. It is miscible with water in all proportions. found in East L.A. Authorities found the last of five 100-pound canisters of nitric acid stolen along with a truck on New Year's Eve. The last canister of the caustic chemical was recovered early Wednesday in 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. alley. The truck, with the four other canisters, was found parked in East Los Angeles on Friday. The vehicle and its hazardous cargo had been stolen from Del Amo Chemicals, a chemical distribution business in the city's Harbor area, on Dec. 31. - Associated Press |
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