BRIEFLY.Death Row inmate faces murder trial SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. - A man who spent most of the last 26 years on Death Row will face a single trial on charges that he killed a 12-year-old Orange County girl and four women 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. County. The women who Rodney Alcala is accused of killing in the 1970s include 21-year-old Jill Parenteau of Burbank. A Superior Court judge ruled Friday that the cases will be combined. Alcala, 62, was on Death Row for the 1979 kidnapping and killing Robin Samsoe of Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. . She vanished while bicycling to a dance lesson and her remains were later found in the San Gabriel Mountains San Gabriel Mountains, S Calif., E and NE of Los Angeles, running c.50 mi (80 km) westward from Cajon Pass. San Antonio Peak (10,080 ft/3,072 m) is the highest of the range. Citrus fruits are raised on the southern foothills. foothills. Alcala was twice convicted but both convictions were thrown out. He now is in Orange County jail, awaiting a second 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) in the case. In September, he also was charged with sexually assaulting and strangling four women in Los Angeles County in the 1970s, including Parenteau. Authorities say DNA tests linked him to the killings. - 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. Agua Dulce Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations: In Mexico:
AGUA DULCE - A teenage motorist was killed early Saturday when his pickup truck ran off Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling and overturned into a drainage ditch, officials said. Colby Dawson, 19, of Agua Dulce was driving south on the highway when he lost control near Penman Road around 3:10 a.m., California Highway Patrol officials said. Officials had not yet determined his speed, but said he was wearing his seat belt. He was in the car alone. - Daily News Body positively ID'd as husband CANYON COUNTRY - A man found dead in the back of a landscaping truck last week has been positively identified as Ramon Castro, whose wife was arrested on suspicion of murder. Los Angeles County Department of Coroner Investigator Elissa Fleak said an autopsy on Castro is scheduled today to determine the cause of his death. The 43-year-old Canyon Country man had been reported missing by his family on Wednesday. The body was discovered Thursday morning in Castro's truck parked in an isolated section of Sierra Highway underneath the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. and Interstate 5. Esperanza Castro, 42, was arrested Friday and is being held in lieu of $2 million bail. - Daily News Palmdale crash kills 1, injures 2 PALMDALE - One person was killed and two others were critically injured Saturday in a four-vehicle collision on Palmdale Boulevard, authorities said. No names were immediately released. Fire officials said the crash was reported about 3:19 p.m. Saturday at Palmdale Boulevard and 55th Street East. One person died at the scene. - Daily News Ventura to cease punch-card votes VENTURA - Ventura County will replace its punch-card voting system before the June 6 primary election, officials said. Most county voters will vote using ink ballots while others will use computer touch screens. The new systems will better serve Spanish-speaking voters and make sure disabled voters can cast secret ballots. After relying on punch-card ballots for more than 30 years, officials agreed in 2004 to replace them under a federal consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. . Federal officials had accused the county of discriminating against Hispanics, saying it employed too few bilingual poll workers and provided inadequate Spanish-language voting materials. Under the settlement, the county was forced to print bilingual ballots, but it was difficult to print the old punch cards in two languages, said Gene Browning, the county's assistant registrar of voters. The new system costs $6 million. - Associated Press |
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