BRIEFLY SUV-CAR COLLISION LEAVES 6 INJURED.NORTHRIDGE - Six people were injured, one seriously, in a collision in Northridge, police said Monday. The two-car collision occurred at Devonshire Street and Tampa Avenue about 10 p.m. Sunday, when a woman in her 40s in a Ford Explorer ran a red light, said Officer Greg Andrachick of the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Traffic Division. Five people in a 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis The Mercury Grand Marquis is a full-size rear-wheel drive sedan sold by the Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company and manufactured at the St. Thomas Assembly Plant in Canada. It was also built in St. Louis, Missouri until 1985. were injured in the crash, but an 18-year-old man was the only one to suffer serious injuries, Andrachick said. - City News Service Burbank joins up on radio system BURBANK - The city has joined Beverly Hills, Glendale, Pomona, Montebello and Torrance as members of a county-wide system that allows officers to communicate outside their jurisdiction, it was announced Monday. Previously, if the city's officers were involved in a high-speed pursuit, for example, chasing a suspect through other cities and jurisdictions, they had to count on a third party to patch through to their own dispatchers, said Greg Simay 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. . With the Interagency Communications Interoperable Systems Joint Powers Agency, that is no longer the case. The new radio system, which was set up in part with $500,000 in federal funding, also increases radio coverage for Burbank officers, Simay said. - City News Service Attendance earns students honors SUNLAND - Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. officials are doling out prizes today to students who helped the district meet its goal to increase school attendance by 2 percent this year. At Mount Gleason Middle School in Sunland, Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. board member Julie Korenstein received more than 100 chiropractic- approved backpacks from Office Depot for the district's Count Me In! Student Attendance Incentive campaign. The bags will be given to LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) middle school principals, who are encouraged by the district to use them to reward students who scored high marks in attendance. Office Depot donated more than $13,000 in products for the campaign. Today, the district will award grand prizes to eight students who have demonstrated improved or perfect attendance. - City News Service Robbers hold up Ethan Allen store WOODLAND HILLS - Three robbers, two of them armed, stole about $1,400 in cash from the Ethan Allen store and its employees in the 22000 block of Ventura Boulevard, Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Sgt. John
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The robbers, two males and one female, entered the back of the store at 12:05 p.m. The female served as a lookout, and two armed males held up the store's employees, Cudworth said. After 25 minutes, they left in a red Honda Civic, Cudworth said. Nobody was injured in the holdup, Cudworth said. - Daily News Police arrest five in pirating of discs PACOIMA - Five people were arrested and 12,371 counterfeit DVDs and 24,285 counterfeit CDs were recovered in a raid of a so-called ``pick house'' in Pacoima this weekend, it was announced Monday. Los Angeles police and Motion Picture Association of America investigators conducted the raids near Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). and Mercer Street in Pacoima, according to MPAA MPAA abbr. Motion Picture Association of America officials. ``We are rooting out these DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. thieves one by one and tracking their networks in order to shut down illegal DVD and CD pirate operations,'' said Jack W. Spertus, director of the MPAA's Anti-Piracy Operations. Officers raided a residence at 4806 Converse St., where they located three storage rooms containing thousands of illegally duplicated CDs and DVDs. The location was a ``pick house'' where street vendors buy illicit products, police said. The ringleader ring·lead·er n. A person who leads others, especially in illicit or informal activities. ringleader Noun a person who leads others in illegal or mischievous actions Noun 1. suspect of those arrested was Juan Sevilla, 26. Also arrested were Francisca Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , 48; Minerva Sevilla, 17; Juan Sevilla, 55, and Isabel Zermeno, 48, police said. - City News Service |
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