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17-year-old shot by child at home

PACOIMA - A 17-year-old boy was in critical condition Thursday after a child accidentally shot him in the head inside their Pacoima home, police said.

The child, whose age and gender were not disclosed, is a relative of the injured teen, LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.
2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department.
 Officer Jason Lee said. Police were called to their home in the 13800 block of Paxton Street about 3:40 p.m.

It was unclear whether any adults were at home when the shooting occurred or how the child gained access to the gun, Lee said. The shooting is under investigation.

- Daily News

Delgadillo sues 3 Net travel sites

Los Angeles City Attorney The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.  Rocky Delgadillo Rockard John "Rocky" Delgadillo (born July 15 1960) is the current City Attorney of Los Angeles, California. Career
  • Teacher/ Coach, Los Angeles Unified School District, Franklin
  • Attorney, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
 announced Thursday that his office is suing three Internet travel sites that are alleged to have deprived California cities of taxes on guests.

The city's class-action lawsuit alleges that the Web sites underpay on the city's transient occupancy taxes by negotiating lower rates with hotel chains and keeping the difference between the wholesale hotel room tax they pay and the retail amount collected from customers.

Delgadillo said the city loses as much as $10 million in tax revenue annually from each online company. Hotel occupancy Noun 1. hotel occupancy - occupancy rate for hotels
occupancy rate - the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time
 taxes account for about $98 million a year in revenue to the city, about 2 percent of the city's overall revenues.

- Daily News

Men sentenced in minor's death

VENTURA - Two 19-year-old men were sentenced Wednesday to nine months in jail for supplying drugs to Victoria Nugent, who took hallucinogenic hal·lu·ci·no·gen  
n.
A substance that induces hallucination.



[hallucin(ation) + -gen.]


hal·lu
 mushrooms and died after she was hit by a car as she wandered naked on the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County.  in Newbury Park on Aug. 15, officials said.

Jonathan Martinez and Brian Mitchell had both pleaded guilty to furnishing illegal drugs to a minor. They will be credited with time served and spend two months to three months more in jail, officials said. They were also placed on four years' probation and ordered to pay $12,000 each to the Nugent family.

- Daily News

Victim of burning identified by cops

The Coroner's Office has released the name of a 22-year-old woman who died Tuesday after being set on fire, but police still don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 whether the case is a suicide or a homicide.

Salinda Carmen Carmen

throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190]

See : Faithlessness


Carmen

the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr.
 Lacedo, 22, died at 6:41 a.m. Tuesday at 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.  in Burbank, said Lt. Emil Moldovan of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.

Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).

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 officers found Lacedo lying in a driveway in the 9900 block of Keswick Street at 5:15 a.m. The woman had gone door to door seeking help, and had torn off her burning clothes.

The Los Angeles Fire Department's arson detail and the Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division are handling the case as a homicide, pending autopsy results.

- Daily News

Dead man pulled from Lake Balboa

Los Angeles Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in Lake Balboa on Thursday morning.

Los Angeles Police Detective Luis Alarcon of the Van Nuys homicide division said police were called to Lake Balboa in the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area. A Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks employee had found the man's body floating in the lake and alerted park rangers, who in turn called firefighters and police to the area just after 10 a.m. Thursday.

Alarcon said police believe the man was a local transient. There were no obvious signs of foul play, but an autopsy is pending. The man's name was not released pending the notification of relatives.

- Daily News
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