BRIEFLY.Ex-cop, reporter pleads not guilty Former 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 . sergeant and TV reporter Rod Bernsen pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges alleging he touched two 12-year-old boys in a sexual manner aboard a cruise ship. An indictment returned last week charges Bernsen with two counts of abusive sexual contact with a minor. The alleged abuse occurred while Bernsen and the two boys were aboard the Diamond Princess Diamond Princess can refer to:
While in the ship's steam room and locker room shower area, Bernsen, 58, allegedly touched the private parts private parts n. men or women's genitalia, excluding a woman's breasts, usually referred to in prosecutions for "indecent exposure" or production and/or sale of pornography. of one boy with his foot and slapped another's rear. Bernsen, who now lives in Colorado, was arrested Oct. 7 and freed on $850,000 bail. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to four years in prison. -- City News Service Family Bible family Bible n. A Bible with special pages to record births, deaths, and marriages. Noun 1. family Bible - a large Bible with pages to record marriages and births lost, but now is found SAN PEDRO -- A Bible chronicling the Hahn family history for nearly 60 years was stolen along with Ramona Hahn's car and then returned by a good Samaritan Good Samaritan man who helped half-dead victim of thieves after a priest and a Levite had “passed by.” [N.T.: Luke 10:33] See : Helpfulness Good Samaritan who found it discarded on the street, it was reported Monday. The Bible was given to Ramona and Kenneth Hahn on their wedding day on July 15, 1948, and throughout the years Ramona noted every birth, marriage, death, and even divorce in the family, according to the Daily Breeze. The 82-year-old political matriarch was devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. when she realized the Bible and family history was in the trunk of her stolen car, the newspaper reported. Whenever Ramona's husband, a longtime county supervisor, or children -- former Mayor Jim Hahn and current City Councilwoman Janice Hahn -- would take an oath of office An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations. , they placed their left hands on the family Bible, the newspaper reported. Ramona Hahn was thrilled with the Bible's return. And she bought the Mariscal family a Bible of their own, the newspaper reported. -- City News Service Freeway hogtied as trucks crash SYLMAR -- Dozens of frozen pig carcasses blocked traffic on the southbound truck route of the 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. Monday night after a big rig collided with a box truck just north of the Foothill (210) Freeway, the California Highway Patrol said. The collision took place at about 7:35 p.m. when one truck clipped the other, 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 David Porter said. ``We put out a call for a loader and dump truck for approximately 80 feet of frozen pigs,'' Porter said. The collision was at the end of the truck route. Caltrans brought in trucks to collect the frozen meat. No one was injured, and it was unclear how long it would take to clean up the freeway, Porter said. -- Daily News Man found guilty of killing girls VAN NUYS -- An Orange County man was convicted Monday of first-degree murder for the stabbing deaths of his two young daughters nearly five years ago, but the panel deadlocked on whether he killed the children's mother. The Van Nuys Superior Court jury deliberated about 2 1/2 days before finding Julian Beltran guilty of the Jan. 23, 2002, slayings of Marissa Beltran, 6, and Natalie Beltran, who would have turned 2 a few weeks later. The panel also found true the special circumstance allegation that Beltran committed multiple murders, which makes him eligible for the death penalty. Jurors are due back in court next Monday for the trial's penalty phase. -- City News Service |
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