BRIEFLY.Officials suspend 2 LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) officers Two school police officers have been suspended from duty while their superiors investigate a videotape showing them apparently punching a student on the ground during a fight, KCAL kcal kilocalorie. kcal abbr. kilocalorie kcal kilocalorie. (Channel 9) reported Thursday. The footage was shot during two days of fighting at South Area High School No. 1 near 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 last week. The station showed the videotape which was e-mailed to it by an unidentified school employee. Thirty-four people were arrested and a number of students were pepper sprayed during the fights. Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. Superintendent Roy Romer said he was ``deeply concerned'' by what he saw on the tape. The officers have been assigned to duties away from school sites while the tape is being investigated, Romer said. - City News Service Man is accused of molestations PASADENA - A 20-year-old man was charged Thursday with molesting nine boys while he worked part time at Rio Hondo Prep School in Arcadia, according to the District Attorney's Office. Jonathan Robert Poyner of Glendora is accused of molesting the nine, all 13 years old, while at sporting events, on camping trips and at other school activities between June and December, said Deputy District Attorney Lee Mitchell. Poyner was charged with two counts of forcible lewd act on a child, 18 counts of lewd act on a child under 14, and two counts of attempted molestation molestation n. the crime of sexual acts with children up to the age of 18, including touching of private parts, exposure of genitalia, taking of pornographic pictures, rape, inducement of sexual acts with the molester or with other children, and variations of these . He was scheduled to be arraigned today in Pasadena Superior Court. - City News Service Oral test gives 13 bad AIDS results After 13 people falsely tested positive for the AIDS virus AIDS virus n. See HIV. after taking an oral test last month, the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center stopped using the test, the center announced Thursday. The center, which gives about 800 free HIV tests a month, offers patients four testing methods. Traditional blood tests and OraSure oral tests can provide results in seven days, while a rapid version of the oral test that is less invasive can give results in less than 20 minutes, making it the preferred testing method of 80 percent of the center's patients. But last month, 13 people who took the oral OraQuick test at the center falsely registered as HIV-positive. Clinics in San Francisco and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of have reported similar problems. - City News Service Guatemala given suspect in case A Glendale resident wanted on charges that he helped embezzle embezzle To take illegally something of value being held in custody for someone else. more than $5 million from the Guatemalan government has been turned over to authorities in that country, U.S. immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. officials said Thursday. Junior Abadio-Carrillo, 32, had been in immigration custody since his arrest Oct. 18 in Glendale, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is responsible for identifying and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation and infrastructure . He was turned over to Guatemala City authorities Wednesday after being flown there by the U.S. government, ICE officials said. Abadio-Carrillo faces charges alleging that he helped his father, Marco Tulio Abadio-Molina, the former director of the Guatemalan Tax and Customs Authority, embezzle and launder Launder To move illegally acquired cash through financial systems so that it appears to be legally acquired. the money. - City News Service Fee hikes prompt enrollment drop SACRAMENTO - Student fee increases and uncertain budgets triggered a decline in community college enrollment of over 300,000 students statewide over the past two years, according to a new report. The report, requested by the state legislature and produced by the state Chancellor's Office, found that enrollments dramatically decreased when fees were increased from $11 per credit hour to $26 per credit hour during the academic years 2003-04 and 2004-05. Uncertain budgets forced colleges to respond by cutting large numbers of course sections, which further compounded the problem, said state Chancellor Mark Drummond. Disproportionately large losses were found in the 25-and-older population, first-time and returning student populations. -Daily News |
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