BRIEFLY.Timetable sought on urban dumping Two City Council members will push for a commitment to reduce the city's reliance on urban dumps when the full panel votes today to extend Los Angeles' contract with Sunshine Canyon Landfill. Councilman Eric Garcetti Eric Garcetti (born 1971) is the son of former Los Angeles county district attorney Gil Garcetti, and was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2001. He was reelected in 2005. and Councilwoman Jan Perry Jan Perry (circa. 1954 —) currently represents the 9th district of the Los Angeles City Council. External links
Preceded by Rita Walters Los Angeles City Councilwoman say they want a timetable for drastically cutting the amount of trash dumped in the Granada Hills landfill by 2009. The city now sends 3,600 tons of trash daily from single-family homes and small apartments to the landfill. Councilman Greig Smith Greig Smith is a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 12th District, which includes Granada Hills, Northridge and other parts of the Western San Fernando Valley. Smith is also a reserve officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. has crafted a plan that would reduce that total to 500 tons a day by 2009, with the rest handled by recycling or processes to convert trash to energy or compost. - Daily News Teen fatally shot by gang members WINNETKA - Four gang members beat and fatally shot a young man near a self-service laundry A self-service laundry is a facility where clothes are washed and dried. They are known in the UK as launderettes or laundrettes - and in the USA as laundromats (from the genericized trademark of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation). Tuesday afternoon, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. police. The shooting occurred in the 18500 block of Roscoe Boulevard at 3:15 p.m., according to Officer Robert Bishop of the Los Angeles Police Department's Devonshire Division. The victim, 18, was walking east on Roscoe near Reseda Boulevard when he was approached by four men. An argument and fight began, and gunfire erupted, Bishop said. The victim, whose name was not released pending notification of his family, ran away but collapsed and died in the courtyard of an apartment building. The assailants got away in a white Honda. - Daily News Woman is killed in gang shooting A woman believed to be in her 60s was fatally wounded Tuesday afternoon while standing at a 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. bus stop, the apparent innocent victim of gang gunfire. Officers were called to 94th Street and Western Avenue shortly before 2 p.m., according to Sgt. Catherine Plows of 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 . .
Two gang members reportedly began arguing on a sidewalk about 40 yards south of the bus stop. Shots rang out, and the woman fell to the ground and died at the scene. Police took the youth who was the intended target into custody for questioning. - City News Service |
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