BRIEFLY TRIAL SET TO BEGIN FOR ACCUSED KILLER.GRANADA HILLS - Opening statements are expected today in 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. in the trial of a man accused of setting a blaze in a Granada Hills town house that killed his 4-year-old son and injured his ex-girlfriend. Duane West Duane "D" West (b. November 17, 1965 in Newark, New Jersey) is an African American motivational speaker, television personality, author, and entrepreneur. West is best known for his appearances on the daytime talk show Maury , 30, is charged with murder and other counts in connection with the death of Marquise Diantae McDonald. West's former girlfriend, Nicole Taylor, testified at a preliminary hearing last year that he choked and punched her repeatedly before pouring a flammable liquid Generally, a flammable liquid means a liquid which may catch fire easily. In the USA, there is a precise definition of flammable liquid as one with a flashpoint below 100 degrees Fahrenheit. on her head and setting her ablaze. - City News Service Man is arrested for theft, assault PANORAMA CITY - Police arrested a man Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
Police said they arrested Thomas Owens, 32, on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. after he robbed the food warehouse on the corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Nordhoff Street. When a store security guard tried to stop him, Owens pulled out a knife and slashed at him, cutting his finger, police said. Store employees chased and cornered the suspect in an apartment building on the corner of Rayen Street and Tobias Avenue nearby. - Daily News Transient is to be sentenced today Sentencing is scheduled today for a former Skid Row skid row a run-down area frequented by alcoholics. [Am. Culture: Misc.] See : Alcoholism Skid Row district of down-and-outs and bums. [Am. Usage: Brewer Dictionary, 1008] See : Failure hotel resident convicted of shooting three doctors and holding two other people hostage at County/USC Medical Center in 1993. Last month, a jury found that Damascio Ybarra Torres, now 49, was sane at the time he committed the crimes. The panel made the determination 11 days after convicting Torres of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. for the Feb. 8, 1993, shootings of physicians Richard May
Sir Richard George May (12 November 1938 – 1 July 2004) was a British judge. May was born in London and educated at Haileybury. , Glen Rogers and Paul Kaszubowski. - City News Service Bloodied suspect taken in Sunday A man with blood on his clothing who was stopped by police in Koreatown was arrested early Sunday in connection with the stabbing death of another man, Los Angeles police said. Officers spotted Insop Cho, 25, earlier near Ardmore Avenue and Fifth Street, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a police statement. ``The suspect ... stated he was in a fight and that he had stabbed someone,'' the statement continued. ``Simultaneously, a 911 call was broadcast approximately one block away.'' Officers sent to investigate the call found the victim dead. He was later identified as Eduardo Morales, 19, of Los Angeles, according to police. ``The investigation determined that after a dispute, Cho stabbed Morales repeatedly,'' the statement continued. Cho was booked on suspicion of murder. - City News Service Hiker is rescued after knee injury ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los - A 66-year-old Northridge hiker was rescued Sunday after she slipped off a trail near the Bridge to Nowhere and broke her kneecap kneecap (patella), saucer-shaped bone at the front of the knee joint; it protects the ends of the femur, or thighbone, and the tibia, the large bone of the foreleg. The kneecap is embedded in the tendon tissue of the quadriceps femoris, a large thigh muscle. . Members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Search and Rescue Team from the San Dimas station rescued Mary Patterson at about 2:10 p.m. Patterson's shoes were wet after crossing through a small stream less than a mile north of the trail that leads to the Bridge to Nowhere, according to a sheriff's report. She then slipped while trying to climb a hill and broke her kneecap. Rescuers carried her to a place where she could be picked up by a county Fire Department helicopter, which took her 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 in Mission Hills. - Daily News One dead, 2 hurt after shootings Violence continued in Los Angeles on Sunday with one man shot and killed in an alley and two other men shot and wounded, police said. The latest killing brings the number of people slain in the past eight days to 19 in a spate of mostly gang-related violence. Los Angeles has the nation's highest homicide rate with 609 deaths this year, the most since 1996, and up from 587 murders last year. Police were investigating a deadly shooting in an alley near downtown at 4:45 p.m., said Officer Don Cox, a police spokesman. Police also were investigating two other shootings. A man was in stable condition after being shot in the chest at 1:45 p.m. A 19-year-old man was shot several times about 5 p.m. in South Central Los Angeles in what police are describing as a drive-by gang shooting, said Sgt. Sam Mark. - Associated Press |
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