BRIEFLY.Police try to ID adult human skull In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, synarthrodial (immovable) joints formed by bony ossification, with Sharpey's fibres permitting some flexibility. SANTA PAULA Santa Paula (săn`tə pôl`ə), city (1990 pop. 25,062), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Santa Clara River in a fertile valley that yields citrus fruits, avocados, vegetables, flowers, nursery products, and walnuts; laid out 1875, inc. -- Detectives were trying to identify an adult human skull discovered in the east end of town, authorities said Monday. About 11 a.m. Friday, a man called police to say he found what he thought was a human skull in the 1400 block of East Main Street. Officers took the skull to the Ventura County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office, which confirmed it was human. Examiners could not figure out if it was male or female or how the person died. The skull had apparently been stored in the same place for at least the last two years, police said. An FBI agent responded to the area with a certified cadaver cadaver /ca·dav·er/ (kah-dav´er) a dead body; generally applied to a human body preserved for anatomical study.cadav´ericcadav´erous ca·dav·er n. dog and searched two large lots for more human remains, but found none. Anyone with information can call the Santa Paula Police Department at 525-4474. -- Daily News Run-over suspect `insane,' jury told VAN NUYS -- A woman convicted of second-degree murder for running over a man with her car outside a Van Nuys bagel store was insane at the time of the crime, her attorney told jurors Monday. Defense attorney Angelyn Gates told 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 panel that Marie Elise West had previously been diagnosed as ``bipolar'' and had been hospitalized about two dozen times before Jesus Plascencia was killed on Sept. 1, 2000. West's lawyer told the jury that there was no basis for her client to have contact with the 65-year-old victim. West's husband, Alfred Bowman, who was called as the defense's first witness, said his wife had been hospitalized numerous times before the two married in 1999 in Las Vegas. -- City News Service Truck chase ends in South L.A. A big rig overturned Monday night when its driver tried to make a left turn at 29th Street and Normandie Avenue in South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. after nearly an hour of trying to elude California Highway Patrol cars that began their pursuit in Newhall. The chase began at Smokey Bear Road and the southbound Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. at 6:21 p.m. after the big rig clipped a motor coach, and then refused to stop when an officer tried to pull him over, said 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 Officer Patrick Kimball. The driver also veered toward a CHP car as he tried to escape, but missed. He is expected to face an assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon deadly weapon n. any weapon which can kill. This includes not only weapons which are intended to do harm like a gun or knife, but also blunt instruments like clubs, baseball bats, monkey wrenches, an automobile or any object which actually causes death. charge in addition to other charges as a result, Kimball said. The chase went south on the Golden State Freeway to the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. to the eastbound Santa Monica Freeway The Santa Monica Freeway is the westernmost segment of Interstate 10, beginning at the western terminus of I-10 at the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, California and ending southeast of downtown Los Angeles at the famous East Los Angeles Interchange. before it got off on Normandie, he said. The big rig narrowly missed two children when it overturned while making the turn. The driver's name has not been released and it is not clear what was inside the brown cargo container that overturned with the rest of the truck. -- City News Service 2 women charged with killing 2 men Two women in their 70s were charged Monday with killing homeless men in hit-and-run car crashes to collect millions of dollars on their life insurance policies. Olga Rutterschmidt, 73, and Helen Golay, 75, were each charged with two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder for financial gain. The murder charges carry special allegations that would make the women eligible for the death penalty if convicted. However, prosecutors will wait until the case moves closer to trial before deciding whether to seek capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state. History Capital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi. , Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Shellie Samuels said in a statement. -- City News Service 2nd heat-related death heat-related death Forensic medicine A death with a core body temperature ≥ 40.6ºC/105ºF with no other reasonable explanation of death At-risk groups Elderly, those living alone, alcoholics. See Heat wave. confirmed The county Coroner's Office confirmed Monday the second heat-related death in a one-week period -- that of a 98-year-old woman in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. Margarita Zaragosa Trejo died in her residence in the 3400 block of Sabina Street on Saturday, said Craig Harvey of the Coroner's Office. He said that although she had heart disease, a significant cause of death was ``exposure to elevated environmental temperatures.'' The death was ruled accidental, Harvey said. Eldridge Kelsey, 51, died last Tuesday in Lancaster after driving around in a truck without air conditioning, Harvey said. -- City News Service |
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