BRIEFLY.Boxer dies day after collapsing CALABASAS -- A boxer who fought in a sanctioned bout at the Sagebrush sagebrush, name for several species of Artemisia, deciduous shrubs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), particularly abundant in arid regions of W North America. The common sagebrush (A. Cantina can·ti·na n. Southwestern U.S. A bar that serves liquor. [Spanish, canteen, from Italian, wine cellar.] this week died Friday, police said. Jackson Bussell, 28, of Reno, Nev., collapsed Thursday night in the ring shortly after his six-round match with Javier Garcia. Bussell was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a hospital in the Northridge town of Los Angeles, California, USA. It is currently operated by Catholic Healthcare West. History The hospital was founded in 1955 by Dr. in grave condition, said Officer Jason Lee, 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 . .
"Around 3 p.m., he lost the fight for his life and died in the hospital," Lee said. Lee said the restaurant hosted several fights Thursday night. All the fights for the restaurant's "Fight Night" were legal, sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission, Lee said. Bussell's fight ended in a draw. -- Daily News Iguanas, false leg highlights of case A Southland man who allegedly smuggled rare iguanas in his prosthetic pros·thet·ic adj. 1. Serving as or relating to a prosthesis. 2. Of or relating to prosthetics. prosthetic serving as a substitute; pertaining to prostheses or to prosthetics. leg while traveling from Fiji was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. Friday, officials said. After receiving a tip that Jereme James, 33, of Long Beach had several protected Fiji iguanas that are threatened with extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened an undercover investigation, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the United States Attorney's Office. While on a trip to Fiji in September 2002, James allegedly trapped three young iguanas from an ecological preserve and brought them back to the United States in a compartment he made in a prosthetic leg he uses, Mrozek said. During the investigation, James told an undercover agent that he sold a trio of Fiji Island-banded iguanas four years ago for $32,000, Mrozek said. James has been charged with one count of smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain . If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison. -- Daily News Robbery linked to impersonation Impersonation Patroclus wore the armor of Achilles against the Trojans to encourage the disheartened Greeks. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Prisoner of Zenda, The RESEDA -- A man was arrested Friday on suspicion of impersonating a police officer and robbing at knifepoint knife·point n. The sharp end of a knife. Idiom: at knifepoint Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. an elderly couple of $100 inside their Reseda town house, authorities said. The robbery occurred about 8 p.m. Thursday in the 7500 block of Corbin Avenue, when a man dressed in police-type clothing knocked on the couple's door and inquired about an auto accident the two Reseda residents were involved in earlier in the day, said Los Angeles police Officer Jason Lee. -- Daily News Collision sends auto onto lawns ARLETA - A woman was slightly injured Friday when she hit another car and plowed through the front yards of several homes in Arleta, police said. The woman allegedly was speeding southbound in a race against another motorist around midnight on Arleta Avenue when she collided with the car near Garber Street and lost control, said Officer James Norton of the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Traffic Division. The woman then crashed through the front yards of several homes along Arleta Avenue, he said, adding she was treated at the scene for a cut to her arm. The cause of the crash was under investigation, and no arrests were made, Foster said. -- City News Service Teachers win county honors Four Los Angeles Unified teachers on Friday were named L.A. County Teachers of the Year for being the "best of the best" in the county's public schools. Judged by their peers, the four LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) educators were among a group of 16 teachers. Two of the teachers are from the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. : Meggan Ballman of Kester Avenue/Magnet Elementary School in Sherman Oaks and Lewis Chappelear, a teacher at James Monroe High School James Monroe High School may refer to:
Mark Ouweleen, a sixth-grade teacher at Columbus Elementary School in the Glendale Unified School District The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. , also earned the distinction. The 16 winners were selected from a field of 64 from 85,000 teachers countywide. They will go on to participate in the 2007-08 California Teachers of the Year competition this fall. -- Daily News Assault with car brings 9 months VAN NUYS - A motorist who rammed a pregnant woman with her car after a confrontation over a fender-bender last summer in Van Nuys was sentenced Friday to nine months in county jail and five years probation. Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Kathryne Ann Stoltz suspended a three-year state prison term, which 41-year-old Julia Lunney-Rowland will not have to serve if she complies with the terms of her probation. Lunney-Rowland pleaded no contest Aug. 16 to one felony count each of assault by force likely to produce great bodily injury and leaving the scene of an accident. Gloria Babinec -- who was 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time of her July 10, 2006, run-in with the defendant -- was not seriously injured The casualty status of a person whose injury may or may not require hospitalization; medical authority does not classify as very seriously injured, seriously injured, or incapacitating illness or injury; and the person can communicate with the next of kin. Also called NSI. See also casualty status. . Police said last year that the argument began after Babinec came out of her doctor's office and saw paint damage on her car. - City News Service Jurors try again to reach verdict The Phil Spector murder trial jury spent more than four hours in deliberations Friday with new instructions issued by the judge to try to break their 7-5 deadlock. But the panel did not reach a verdict and went home for the weekend 45 minutes early. There were no questions from the nine men and three women, who heard five months of testimony. The panel got the case on Sept. 10 and had entered its seventh day of talks Tuesday when it reported the impasse. The judge had the jurors stop deliberating until he decided on new instructions. The jury's apparent dedication to trying again for a verdict may bode well for the prosecution during appeal if a conviction is returned, said Laurie Levenson, a Loyola professor and ex-U.S. prosecutor. "The jurors are not having a knee jerk knee jerk n. See patellar reflex. knee jerk Knee-jerk reaction, knee reflex, patellar reflex Neurology A reflex tested by tapping just below the bent knee on the patellar tendon, causing the quadriceps muscle to response to these instructions," she said. "If the modified instructions were so coercive you would expect the jury to come back immediately and say, 'The judge wants us to convict. We will.' "The longer they are out after instructions, the better it is appellate-wise." -- Associated Press |
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