BRIEFLY.State lauds Lauds is one of the two "major hours" in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours. It is to be recited in the early morning hours, preferably near dawn. Structure of the hour CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge for its teachers NORTHRIDGE - The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) is an independent agency created in 1970 by the Ryan Act and is the oldest of the autonomous state standards boards in the nation. The mission of the CCTC is to facilitate the credentialing of California's teachers. has ranked CSUN the second highest in the state for its enrollment of teaching candidates. As experts predict that California will be short roughly 100,000 teachers within the next 10 years, the commission identified CSUN as a national leader in contributing to the ranks of teachers. Among California's 88 public and private institutions with programs preparing students for teaching careers, Cal State Northridge placed just behind National University in its 2003-04 teacher preparation enrollment. Of the 67,595 students enrolled statewide for 2003-04, CSUN had 4,354 who completed one or more courses in a program that included supervised student teaching or internship teaching. - Daily News Cop suffers minor injuries in crash TUJUNGA - A Los Angeles police officer suffered minor injuries Tuesday when he crashed his patrol car while following a speeding violator who got away in the Tujunga area, authorities said. The crash occurred about 9:15 a.m. at Tujunga Canyon and Foothill boulevards, said Officer April Harding of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Office. The officer suffered a cut finger and a bruised thigh, Harding said. The speeding violator, who kept going, was being sought. - City News Service FBI agent named LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) inspector The 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. board on Tuesday unanimously appointed former FBI agent Jerry Thornton to run the district's Inspector General's Office. Thornton, 60, has been acting as interim director since Don Mullinax - who often criticized district spending and policies - resigned last April. Thornton will remain at his job three years overseeing auditors and investigators in the watchdog office. His $150,000 a year post expires in June 2008. The Inspector General's Office conducts inquiries to prevent and detect fraud and waste. Staffing shortages have made it difficult for the office to monitor the district's $19 billion construction project and its annual operating budget of about $6 billion. - Daily News Ex-priest faces trial for sex abuse Michael Stephen Baker, a former Roman Catholic priest, was brought to court Tuesday to face child molestation Child molestation is a crime involving a range of indecent or sexual activities between an adult and a child, usually under the age of 14. In psychiatric terms, these acts are sometimes known as pedophilia. charges. A lawyer for the 58-year-old Baker entered his plea of not guilty and a preliminary hearing was set for March 16. Baker only spoke when Superior Court Commissioner James Bianco asked if he agreed to the time delay. ``I do,'' he said. Defense attorney Donald Steier said Baker would not immediately challenge his bail, which was set at $800,000. The former priest was arrested last month when he returned from a trip to Asia. Baker is charged with eight acts of oral copulation copulation /cop·u·la·tion/ (kop?u-la´shun) sexual union; the transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals. cop·u·la·tion n. 1. involving a boy during seven months in 1994 and 1995. In 2003, prosecutors charged Baker with 34 counts of 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 on six victims, but those charges were dismissed because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld a statute of limitations A type of federal or state law that restricts the time within which legal proceedings may be brought. Statutes of limitations, which date back to early Roman Law, are a fundamental part of European and U.S. law. on old sex abuse charges. Cases dating before 1988 were dismissed. Authorities said in October they had reopened a case that involved two brothers who claimed Baker molested mo·lest tr.v. mo·lest·ed, mo·lest·ing, mo·lests 1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy. 2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity. them between 1984 and 1999. The new charges involve one of those brothers. - Associated Press Selection of jury begins in cop case Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy accused of forcing two women to engage in sexual acts with him and fondling a third woman during morning traffic stops. Gabriel Gonzalez, who worked in Compton, is charged with multiple federal counts of violating the women's civil rights. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison. After the 38-year-old deputy 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. in August 2004, a sheriff's spokesman said Gonzalez had been placed on suspension. He has remained on unpaid leave since then, according to Michael Gennaco. - City News Service |
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