BRIEFLY TEENAGER'S DEATH DECLARED SUICIDE.The death of a 15-year-old killed when the speeding Mercedes-Benz he was driving plunged off winding Kanan Road near Agoura Hills last week has been ruled a suicide, 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. County Coroner's Office staffers said. Victor Luis Pahed Westerband of Westlake, a student at Agoura High School Agoura High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Agoura Hills, California, United States. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. , was driving about 100 mph along the curving road when the car crossed into oncoming traffic, clipped a pickup truck and then barreled over the edge, a coroner's report said. - Daily News Dash across road a fatal decision VAN NUYS - A 72-year-old woman was killed Tuesday when she attempted to run across Sepulveda Boulevard outside a crosswalk, Los Angeles police said. Marie Lewis of Van Nuys was rushed to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History shortly after the accident about 10:45 a.m. and pronounced dead later in the afternoon from massive head trauma, said Los Angeles police Officer Rudy Sandoval. - Daily News House demolition may be punished The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Tuesday directed city officials to
prosecute a developer accused of demolishing a historic building without
a permit and to deny him all permits at the site for five years.
City officials said builder G.H. Palmer's firm recently tore down an 1887 Bunker Hill home known as the Giese residence even as they were preparing to have it moved to a new location. The developer has called the demolition an accident. The council asked the city attorney and Department of Building and Safety officials to pursue all possible criminal and civil measures available. - Daily News Ex-Rampart cop `forever ... sorry' A former Rampart Division police officer apologized Tuesday before he was sentenced to a year in jail in what investigators called the framing of an innocent man who was beaten during his arrest. There is ``no excuse for the actions of those involved in this incident,'' Ethan Cohan told a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. He called his role in the 1998 incident ``an aberration of my conduct'' and said he will ``forever be sorry'' that his career in the 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 . is over. Cohan pleaded
guilty in February to charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice, filing
a false police report and perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. by declaration.
He and three other officers were implicated im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. by a disgraced former officer, Rafael Perez, in the Rampart corruption scandal that broke in 1999. - Associated Press School-reopening plan to be heard WOODLAND HILLS - A community meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. today on the proposed reopening of Oso Avenue Elementary School in Woodland Hills as a 400-seat high school academy. The meeting will take place at Parkman Middle School, 20800 Burbank Blvd., in Woodland Hills. - Daily News Board of Rabbis elects new leader The senior rabbi at Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles was named on Tuesday as president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California. Robert Gan was elected to serve a two-year term as head of the board, which brings together more than 250 Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist and Reform rabbis. - City News Service Priest arraigned in sex-abuse case VENTURA - A retired Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting six boys during the late 1960s and early '70s has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child molestation Child molestation is a crime involving a range of indecent or sexual activities between an adult and a child, usually under the age of 14. In psychiatric terms, these acts are sometimes known as pedophilia. . The Rev. Carl Sutphin, 70, entered his plea Monday in the case, which involves four victims who say they were molested mo·lest tr.v. mo·lest·ed, mo·lest·ing, mo·lests 1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy. 2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity. when they were kids. Sutphin was a priest at St. Mary Magdalen Magdalen: see Mary Magdalene. Church in Camarillo from 1971 to 1975 and also worked as a priest at St. John's Hospital St. John's Hospital may refer to: In the United Kingdom:
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