BRIEFLY.Mail `winner' could be loser Police are warning Los Angeles residents about a mail scam circulating throughout the city that implies the recipient is a sweepstakes winner. ``The letter asks the `winner' to send a cashier's check back to the sweepstakes company, which promises more cash once a `nonresidence tax' is paid up front,'' Lt. Paul Vernon, spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . , said Wednesday. Detectives are asking anyone who has received suspicious sweepstakes letters to call the Commercial Crimes Division of the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. . Recipients should not try to cash the checks. Anyone with information can call Detective Yvonne Parker at (213) 485-4131. On weekends and during off hours, call the 24-hour toll-free number at 1-877-LAWFULL (529-3855). -- Daily News Legal fees mount in B.I.G. lawsuit The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Wednesday approved spending an additional $1 million for private attorneys in the ongoing case filed by the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. The council voted 15-0 to approve the payments to the Bird, Marella, Boxer law firm for the case, in which city government already has been forced to pay $1.1 million in sanctions for failing to turn over information to the family. Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, was killed in March 1997. His family contends that the killing was carried out by rogue Los Angeles Police Department officers. 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) is scheduled to begin in January. -- Daily News Social services director named Los Angeles County supervisors decided Wednesday during a closed session hearing to hire Patricia S. Ploehn as the new director of the Department of Children and Family Services. Ploehn, who has served as the deputy director of the DCFS DCFS Department of Children and Family Services DCFS Division of Children and Family Services DCFS Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (conference) DCFS Data Communication & Functional System since 2003 overseeing child-welfare services and adoption and permanency per·ma·nen·cy n. Permanence: tourists who were in awe of the permanency of the great pyramids of Egypt. Noun 1. services, will be paid $180,000 a year. She replaces David Sanders, who resigned earlier this year to take a job with Casey Family Programs The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. after being widely credited with improving an agency that has been under intense criticism for years. -- Daily News Ex-L.A. doctor faces tax charge A former radiologist at Martin Luther King-Drew Medical Center was charged Wednesday with failing to pay state taxes for 2004 when he worked at the public hospital 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. . Deputy District Attorney Juliet Schmidt of the Public Integrity Division said Dr. Harold Austin Tate, 46, who now lives in Las Vegas, is expected to appear in court to be arraigned Oct. 30. Bail was recommended at $20,000. Tate is charged with one felony count of failure to file a return for 2004. The complaint did not state the amount allegedly owed the state. A conviction carries a possible three-year maximum state prison term. -- Daily News |
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