BRIEFLY VANDALIZED TREES WILL BE REPLACED.Valley Glen residents are fighting back against vandals who destroyed 10 trees that volunteers planted last weekend on Victory Boulevard Victory Boulevard is a major thoroughfare on Staten Island, measuring approximately 8.0 miles (12.87 km) and stretching from the west shore community of Travis to the upper east shore communities of St. George and Tompkinsville. . The residents, led by the Valley Glen Community Council, and City Councilman Mike Feuer will replace the damaged trees and plant more trees along the street beginning at 9:15 a.m. Saturday. The tree-planting was part of an effort to beautify Victory Boulevard between Coldwater Canyon and Whitsett avenues. - Daily News Furrow's lawyers must reveal plans Lawyers for a white supremacist white supremacist n. One who believes that white people are racially superior to others and should therefore dominate society. white supremacy n. Noun 1. must disclose next month whether they will present a mental illness defense when he goes on trial charged with firing on a Jewish community center and then killing a postman, a judge said Thursday. With the trial of Buford O. Furrow furrow /fur·row/ (fur´o) a groove or sulcus. atrioventricular furrow the transverse groove marking off the atria of the heart from the ventricles. set for Nov. 14, his lawyers contended they were not required to state their intentions regarding a psychiatric defense this far ahead of trial. But U.S. District Judge Richard Paez Richard Paez was confirmed by the Senate to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in March 2000. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, Paez is the first Mexican American to sit on the bench of the United States District Court for the Central District of said the defense must not only tell the government if it plans such a defense but also is required to disclose the names of expert witnesses it plans to call, their qualifications, the opinions they will offer and the basis for those opinions. Furrow is charged with killing letter carrier Joseph Ileto just hours after he wounded three boys, a teen-age girl and a woman at the North Valley Jewish Community Center. He has pleaded not guilty. The judge ordered Furrow's lawyers to submit their intentions by June 26. The government would then have 10 days to submit a request for its own mental examinations of Furrow. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Lawsuit targets Seagal, executive Three former employees of a Ventura-based record label sued their ex-boss and Steven Seagal on Thursday, accusing the company's president of sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. and the actor of slander. Seagal is being sued for accusing Patricia Nichols, a former vice president of special projects for Outwest Entertainment, of embezzling from the company, attorney Brent Blakely said. Seagal, who could not be reached to comment, was working to produce an album, Blakely said. The 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. Superior Court complaint primarily focuses on the sexual harassment claim against the label's president, Dennis Torchia, by Nichols, Sharon Rockwell and Shannon Cox Shannon Cox (born July 3, 1986) is an Australian rules footballer for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League. Cox, an Indigenous footballer, was picked up as a rookie by Collingwood at the 2005 National Rookie Draft, and following some good . The suit includes allegations that Torchia made unwelcome sexual remarks and requests. Torchia could not be reached to comment. - City News Service Report assesses region's livability While experiencing historic economic prosperity, safer streets and improved air quality, the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, region still falls short in reducing traffic, meeting housing needs and improving education. That's 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 ``report card'' contained in the Southern California Association of Governments' State of the Region Report released Thursday. The report offered grades on seven quality-of-life issues for the region that includes Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties. The report card gave the region its strongest marks in the area of employment, rating that issue an A-minus. The region earned a B-minus in air quality, up from a C last year, with the 1999 smog season being the cleanest on record. At the other end of the spectrum, the region received its worst marks for the second consecutive year in the area of mobility, rating a D. - City News Service |
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