BRIEFLY SUSPECT SOUGHT IN GANG STABBING.BURBANK - Burbank police sought a bald-headed young man who wounded another man in a possibly gang-related fight Friday, sending him to the hospital with a cut and puncture wound to the abdomen. The man, whose name was not released, was taken to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center is a hospital in Burbank, California, USA. The hospital has 455 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. It's adress is: 501 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91505. by friends at 1:35 a.m., said Sgt. Brian Matthews of the Burbank Police Department The Burbank Police Department is the police department serving Burbank, California. Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. . His wounds were not life-threatening, the sergeant said. Anyone with information about the crime was asked to call police Detective Tom Kister at (818) 238-3263. - City News Service Parents arrested in infant's death NORTH HOLLYWOOD - The parents of a 3 1/2-month-old North Hollywood boy who died in a case of shaken baby syndrome Shaken Baby Syndrome Definition Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a collective term for the internal head injuries a baby or young child sustains from being violently shaken. were in custody Friday in connection with the death. Josephina Guadalupe Ojeda Ramirez, 25, and Efrain Ramirez Garcia, 26, were each being held at the Van Nuys Jail in lieu of $1 million bail on murder charges in connection with the death of their son, Edwin Carlos Ramirez, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Sara Faden. Edwin died Jan. 23 from brain damage at Valley Presbyterian Hospital. Police are asking anyone with information about this case to call the Abused Child Unit at (818) 756-8748; on weekends and off-hours, call 1-877-LAWFULL. - Daily News Lecture planned on solar system NORTHRIDGE - Cal State Northridge's Bianchi Planetarium is offering a special lecture at 6 p.m. today. University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , professor Kevin McKeegan, who specializes in geochemistry and cosmochemistry cos·mo·chem·is·try n. The science of the chemical composition of the universe. cos  mo·chem , will talk about the origin and early history of the solar system. He also will give an overview of the Stardust Mission, which encountered the comet Wild 2 on Jan. 2. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the University Student Union from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, or by calling the box office at (818) 677-2488. - Daily News Frank Zappa's mother dies at 91 BURBANK - Rose Marie Zappa, the mother of the late musician Frank Zappa, died Thursday in Burbank. She was 91. Zappa died at a Burbank convalescent con·va·les·cent adj. Relating to convalescence. n. A person who is recovering from an illness, an injury, or a surgical operation. convalescent 1. pertaining to or characterized by convalescence. 2. hospital, said daughter Patrice Zappa, who added that her mother had been in declining health. In addition to her daughter, she is survived by sons Robert and Carl and eight grandchildren. Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer in 1993 at age 52. - City News Service Convicted killer commits suicide A former Long Beach high school teacher convicted of killing his girlfriend used a razor to slash his throat while in jail awaiting transfer to prison and died, a coroner's official reported Friday. Pedro Tepoz-Leon, 35, was found dead on a bunk in his cell at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest jail. in Los Angeles about 5 a.m. Thursday. Deputy Harry Drucker said Tepoz-Leon had not exhibited any suicidal tendencies previously. The day before he died, Tepoz-Leon had been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for the October 2002 stabbing death of Mayra Mora-Lopez, 19, his live-in girlfriend. - City News Service Jury deadlocks in police force case The judge in the retrial of a fired Inglewood police officer declared a mistrial A courtroom trial that has been terminated prior to its normal conclusion. A mistrial has no legal effect and is considered an invalid or nugatory trial. It differs from a "new trial," which recognizes that a trial was completed but was set aside so that the issues could be Friday, after a second jury was unable to agree whether the white man assaulted a black teen under ``color of authority.'' The foreperson fore·per·son n. 1. The chair and spokesperson for a jury: "A jury gives no reasons for its decision; it reaches a collective result, announced by the foreperson" Hiller B. Zobel. in the Los Angeles retrial of Jeremy Morse, 26, said the panel was divided 6-6 on the matter. The first jury to hear the case deadlocked 7-5 last July 29 in favor of convicting Morse. Morse was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. for slamming a limp-looking Donovan Jackson, who at the time was 16 years old and 5 feet 6 inches tall and 136 pounds, onto the trunk of a patrol car and punching the handcuffed teen in the face on July 6, 2002, at a Thrifty gas station in Inglewood. It was unclear whether the prosecution might seek a third trial. - City News Service |
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