BRIEFLY.Missing Renoir recovered in L.A. A Renoir painting stolen five years ago was recovered in 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. as part of a probe into an international 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 ring suspected in the theft of $50 million worth of artwork, FBI officials announced Friday. At a news conference in Westwood, local and federal law enforcement officials said all three paintings stolen from the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm on Dec. 23, 2000, have now been recovered. An undercover FBI agent posing as an art buyer helped recover the final stolen painting - Rembrandt's ``Self Portrait'' - Thursday in Copenhagen, Denmark. - City News Service Council confirms panel nominees The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. Friday confirmed nominees to the
Transportation Commission and the Police Permit Review Panel.
The council voted 10-0 to approve Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's appointments of Paul Kim to the Board of Transportation Commissioners and Victor Narro to the police panel. Council members Alex Padilla Alex Padilla is a politician in California. He was elected as the State Senator for the 20th District of California in November 2006 and was inaugurated in early December. In order to enter the Senate he had to resign as Councilman for the 7th District on the Los Angeles City , 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 Greig Smith were absent from the meeting. Kim is a retired commander 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 . and Narro is the project director at the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los AngelesUCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Downtown Labor Center. - City News Service Man, 58, burned in residence fire MOORPARK - A 58-year-old man was seriously burned Friday in a fire at a home in the 4300 block of Laurelhurst Road. The man apparently lived in the home with his wife and three children, who were gone when the fire started, said Joe Luna, a spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department Not to be confused with Ventura Fire Department. The Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) provides fire protection and emergency response services for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, and for six other cities within the county. . A private ambulance crew in the area saw the flames and helped the victim before he was taken to Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
- Daily News DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. 'cold hit' bill passes the House A grant program created by Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Thousand Oaks, specifically to help local prosecutors bring ``cold hit'' DNA cases to court has passed the House as part of a larger bill expanding the ability to monitor sex offenders. ``Cold hit'' cases are those in which DNA evidence Among the many new tools that science has provided for the analysis of forensic evidence is the powerful and controversial analysis of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, the material that makes up the genetic code of most organisms. from a crime scene is linked to evidence in a previously unsolved crime via a statewide database. Gallegly, who said previous congressional funding for the DNA initiative failed to go to local prosecutors who most needed it, also said the increase in such cases has caused district attorney workloads to skyrocket. Ventura County officials say cold hits helped identify suspects in more than 300 unsolved homicides, according to Gallegly. Statewide, he said, officials make about 1,200 cold hits a day and expect the new technology will lead to 4,000 new cases annually. - Daily News Push on for money to jail immigrants Border senators are making their perennial push for more money to reimburse states the costs of incarcerating illegal immigrants who commit crimes. In a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee leaders, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and five others requested $405 million for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. Currently the Senate has allocated $200 million toward the program, while the House has offered $405 million. The two bodies are trying to work out a compromise. A recent federal audit found California and three other states were reimbursed less than 25 percent of what they spent jailing illegal immigrants in recent years. - Daily News Bill would protect most volunteers Contractors who volunteer their labor to help victims of Hurricane Katrina will be protected from most lawsuits under legislation sponsored by Rep. Gary Miller, R-Brea, that passed the House this week. Miller said he recognized the need for the bill after seeing what he described as frivolous lawsuits brought against people who volunteered to help during and after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The bill, which passed unanimously, provides limited indemnity and does not protect against reckless or criminal conduct or the violation of civil rights laws. - Daily News Furniture shop's fire extinguished PANORAMA CITY - Fire broke out Friday at a shop where wood furniture is made, but firefighters were able to save much of the business, a spokesman said. It took 80 firefighters 32 minutes to extinguish the blaze, which was reported at 5:22 p.m. at 13841 Saticoy St., said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. . Arriving firefighters found a booth engulfed in heavy flames that had spread into the attic and roof of the cinder-block building, he said. The building was closed at the time, he said, and much of the property was saved. No one was injured. The cause of the fire and the extent of the damage were under investigation, Humphrey said. - City News Service |
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