BRIEFLY.Gunfire kills three inside post office GOLETA - Three people were killed and at least one person was critically wounded Monday when a postal employee opened fire in a postal station in this seaside city that is located adjacent to the University of California, Santa Barbara History The predecessor to UCSB, Santa Barbara State College, focused on teacher training, industrial arts, home economics, and foreign languages. Intense lobbying by an interest group in the City of Santa Barbara led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase persuaded the State , authorities reported. The shooting took place about 9:15 p.m., Capt. Keith Cullom of the Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. County Fire Department told The 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. . ``The suspect is still not apprehended,'' Cullom said shortly after 10 p.m. Sheriff's spokesman Erik Raney told KCAL-TV (Channel 9) that the shooter was believed to be a postal employee. He said the shooting took place at a station where mail is handled. The TV station quoted a fire department official as saying a third person died from injuries at a local hospital. The postal station is located across the street from a fire station, just a few blocks from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Cullom said people ran to the fire station to report the shooting. - Staff and Wire Services Burned remains found in forest 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 - Human remains were found Monday at a camping area in the Angeles National Forest, authorities said. Detectives were sent to Camp Colby, at mile marker 1.28 on Big Tujunga Canyon Road, about 8:20 a.m. on word that an injured person was inside a restroom, said Deputy Alba Yates. Instead of an injured person, detectives found the charred remains of an adult, Yates said. - City News Service Police searching for Arco robber SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - Police are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a man who robbed an Arco mini-mart over the weekend, authorities said. The robbery occurred about 1 a.m. Sunday at the gas station, 706 Los Angeles Ave. The robber was described as a man with dark hair, about 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing about 165 pounds and wearing a white hooded sweat shirt and blue jeans. Anyone with information about the robbery can call the Simi Valley Police Department The Simi Valley Police Department (SVPD) is the police department of the city of Simi Valley, California. The department currently has over 120 sworn officers, and more than 65 support personnel[1]. The department has a patrol area that covers over 39 square miles. at (805) 583-6950. - Daily News Motorcyclist hurt in freeway attack GARDEN GROVE - A motorcyclist was injured and several buses and a big-rig truck had their windows shattered Monday night, apparently by someone hurling bricks or rocks onto the Garden Grove Freeway, authorities said. The motorcyclist, who was not seriously hurt, was treated at the scene and released, said California Highway Patrol Officer Katrina Lundgren. No one was immediately arrested, and police used a helicopter to search for the suspect Monday night in this Orange County suburb 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . - Associated Press Man sent to prison for faking NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign ID A 41-year-old Granada Hills man was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for impersonating an agent of the National Security Agency while trying to buy a handgun, officials said. Carmelo Avila sent a letter to Georgia-based Glock Inc. claiming to be ``Special Agent Daniel Jan Kariya.'' Posing as Kariya, Avila identified himself as a joint task force counterterrorism coun·ter·ter·ror adj. Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism: counterterror measures; counterterror weapons. n. Action or strategy intended to counteract or suppress terrorism. operative interested in buying a Glock G20 10mm handgun, officials said. - Daily News Academy suing Grammy scalpers The recording academy is trying to stop a Web site from selling tickets to next week's Grammy Awards ceremony, a lawsuit filed Monday shows. The recording academy's suit against 2-Tickets.com, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, stresses that uninvited guests aren't welcome at the Grammy Awards - including this year's 48th annual event, to be held Feb. 8 at the Staples Center. The academy warns that anyone found to have a ticket that was issued to someone else will not be allowed inside the ceremony. - City News Service |
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