BRIEFLY.Tire tracks lead to canyon crash MALIBU - Firefighters and rescuers pulled a paraplegic paraplegic /para·ple·gic/ (-ple´jik) 1. pertaining to or of the nature of paraplegia. 2. an individual with paraplegia. man from a steep canyon Friday morning after his van plunged over the side of Kanan Road and landed 350 feet downhill. California Highway Patrol officers 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. when Joseph 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 , 43, of Sun Valley drove off the road. A truck driver discovered the van after he stopped to investigate tire tracks in the mud leading off the cliff. The Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La and the Sheriff's Search and Rescue team used ropes to lower themselves into the canyon, remove Flores and hoist him back up the hill on a stretcher. Flores suffered a gash to the head and was airlifted to a local hospital. CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan officials said the extrication extrication Emergency medicine The process of removing a person from an entrapment, usually from a motor vehicle, often requiring the use of special tools. See Jaws of life. was difficult because Flores wouldn't cooperate with rescuers. He also wouldn't talk with investigators nor say when the crash occurred. The accident is still under investigation. - Daily News Grandson could face execution GLENDALE - Antranik Khajarian, the grandson of a 92-year-old woman killed in a house fire, was charged Friday with capital murder and two counts of attempted murder of his parents, who were also in the house, prosecutors said. Khajarian, 37, lived at the home in the 200 block of Wonderview Drive with his parents and now deceased grandmother, Arpine Demirjian. Coroner's officials have not yet determined the cause of death. His parents managed to escape the early Tuesday blaze. The murder count carries the special circumstance of arson, potentially making it a death penalty case. Khajarian has also been charged with one count of arson causing great bodily injury, one count of arson of an inhabited structure and one count of possession of flammable material, prosecutors said. - Daily News Candidate enters not guilty pleas VENTURA - Former Thousand Oaks City Council candidate Daniel Avila pleaded not guilty Friday in Ventura County Superior Court at his arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted on charges of computer fraud, identity theft and false personation. The charges stem from allegations that he sent thousands of text messages to local cell phone subscribers the night before the Nov. 2 election. A joint investigation by the Sheriff's Department and the Southern California High Technology Task Force found that Avila, 25, made it appear that the messages were sent by former Thousand Oaks Mayor Bob Wilson, who was ousted in the election. More than 100 people sent e-mails to Wilson angry over being awakened by the spam call. - Daily News DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection repairs leak at De Soto, 101 WOODLAND HILLS - The Department of Water and Power repaired a small, slowly leaking water pipe on De Soto Avenue overnight Thursday, which prompted the closure of the De Soto Avenue exit from the westbound 101 Freeway, officials said. No water customers were affected and the off-ramp was reopened mid- morning Friday. - Daily News Mistrial A courtroom trial that has been terminated prior to its normal conclusion. A mistrial has no legal effect and is considered an invalid or nugatory trial. It differs from a "new trial," which recognizes that a trial was completed but was set aside so that the issues could be declared in teen's shooting A mistrial was declared Friday after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked in the case of three men young men charged in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy near a high school campus in Sun Valley. The Los Angeles Superior Court panel spent about 4 1/2 days considering the case against Angel Rodriguez and Christian Hernandez, both 22, and Mauricio Montes, 21. The three are due back before Judge Tricia Ann Bigelow on March 21. Deputy District Attorney Kathleen Blanchard said she will ask for a retrial retrial n. a new trial granted upon the motion of the losing party, based on obvious error, bias or newly-discovered evidence. (See: newly-discovered evidence) . - City News Services |
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