BRIEFLY.Human remains found in debris LAKE VIEW TERRACE - Firefighters putting out a rubbish fire underneath the Foothill Freeway on Tuesday discovered human remains amid the debris, authorities said. The age and gender of the body could not be determined, 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. spokesman Brian Humphrey said. The body was found in the 11900 block of Terra Bella Street shortly after 6:30 p.m., Humphrey said. - Daily News Man's conviction in murder upheld A state appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Reseda man who hijacked a bus, causing a crash that killed a Norwalk mother of three. Attorneys for Carlos Ray Garcia, 44, argued that errors led to his conviction on murder and 11 other charges and that he should have been granted a new trial. But a three-justice panel of the Second District Court of Appeal unanimously disagreed in a 19-page opinion issued Monday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis Rappe sentenced Garcia on April 2, 2004, to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In September 2003, a jury convicted Garcia of hijacking hijacking Crime of seizing possession or control of a vehicle from another by force or threat of force. Although by the late 20th century hijacking most frequently involved the seizure of an airplane and its forcible diversion to destinations chosen by the air pirates, when a bus on May 2, 2001, to escape police after he shot Anthony Lewis, 35, in the Rampart area. During a high-speed chase through downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , the bus Garcia was driving crashed into a minivan driven by Guadalupe Avalos. - City News Service Meeting to focus on cleanup of site The California Department of Toxic Substances Control The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (or DTSC) is an agency of the government of the state of California. The agency monitors exposure to hazardous, radioactive, and toxic wastes in addition to enforcement of compliance by individual businesses, will hold a public meeting tonight to discuss how Centex Homes plans to remove perchlorate-tainted soil from a proposed housing development in West Hills. The company and DTSC DTSC Department of Toxic Substances Control DTSC DARCOM Technical Steering Committee said they have to do the work before winter rains wash the contaminants deeper into the soil or downstream. Centex Homes is developing the 150-home Sterling project at the corner of Roscoe and Valley Circle boulevards. The company discovered in the soil very high levels of perchlorate perchlorate: see chlorate. , a rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at DeVry University, 22801 Roscoe Blvd. in West Hills. The report is available at http://165.235.111.242/sitecleanup/projects/centex.cfm - Daily News Historic building gets high rating The historic Van de Kamp Bakery Building, which will become the Northeast Center of Los Angeles City College Los Angeles City College, known as LACC, is a public community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. A part of the Los Angeles Community College District, it is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard. , is the first construction conversion project in the United States to achieve a Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method, or BREEAM BREEAM Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method , rating. BREEAM, a United Kingdom standard, seeks to minimize the adverse effects of new buildings on the environment while promoting healthy indoor conditions for the occupants. - Daily News Theft of paintings makes top-10 list WEST HOLLYWOOD - The theft of two Maxfield Parrish paintings stolen from a gallery in West Hollywood in 2002 has been added to the FBI's national list of top 10 art crimes, it was announced Tuesday. The paintings were taken from the Edenhurst Gallery on Melrose Avenue sometime between when it closed for business on July 28, 2002, and reopened the next day, said Laura Eimiller of the FBI. The paintings, two panels from a series of six, were painted by Parrish for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9 1875 – April 18 1942) was born into the prominent United States Vanderbilt family and married into the prominent Whitney family. Gertrude was born in New York City. . Each painting measured 64 inches by 74 inches and similarly depicted a group of young men and women in Renaissance costume strolling in front of a Tuscan-style wall decorated with a large terra cotta cot·ta n. pl. cot·tae or cot·tas A short surplice. [Medieval Latin, of Germanic origin.] urn, Eimiller said. The value of the two paintings was estimated at $4 million. - City News Service |
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