BRIEFLY.Volunteer team to spruce up spruce up Verb [sprucing, spruced] to make neat and smart Verb 1. spruce up - make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" city 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. Conservation Corps volunteers will spruce up homes, parks and a local community center Monday during the national day of service marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Those interested in participating can register at 7:30 a.m. Monday at the Alicia Broadous-Duncan Multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective Center, 11300 Glenoaks Blvd., Pacoima. For more information, call (323) 224-2550, Ext. 500. To see a list of other MLK MLK Martin Luther King MLK Milk MLK Medialess License Kit Day volunteer opportunities, see www.mlkday.gov. -- Daily News 1,000-year term possible in rape One of four men who raped two women at gunpoint for nearly seven hours in February 1991 will face 500 to 1,000 years in prison when he is sentenced Tuesday, officials said. Fernando Maldonado, 35, who eluded police for more than a decade, was convicted in November of 100 counts of gang rape gang rape n. Rape of a victim by several attackers in rapid succession. gang  -rape and sexual assault. On Feb. 8, 1991, Maldonado and an accomplice kidnapped two women at gunpoint near the Beverly Center The Beverly Center is a shopping center in Los Angeles, California, United States. Description The Beverly Center is a monolithic eight-story structure located at the edge of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, California, between La Cienega and San Vicente boulevards. . One of the victims was celebrating her 23rd birthday. The victims were taken to Maldonado's apartment, where they were joined by two gang members. The four repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted the women for nearly seven hours before letting them go. -- City News Service Fire crews quell Griffith blaze GRIFFITH PARK Griffith Park is a large public park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is situated in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers 4,210 acres (17 km²) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. -- Firefighters needed about two hours to contain a brush fire that broke out Friday behind the Greek Theatre and Griffith Observatory Griffith Observatory is located in Los Angeles, California, United States. Sitting on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in L.A.'s Griffith Park, it commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin, including downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the , authorities said. The blaze was reported about 3:30 p.m., prompting a response by about 110 firefighters, including crews aboard three water-dropping helicopters, according to Ron Myers 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. . The five-acre fire was contained about two hours after it was reported. -- City News Service Jackson resolves pharmacy suit Michael Jackson has ``amicably resolved'' a lawsuit filed by a Beverly Hills pharmacy that claimed the singer owed more than $100,000 for prescription drugs over the past two years, his spokeswoman said Friday. ``(Mickey) Fine Pharmacy has been paid,'' Jackson spokeswoman Raymone K. Bain said in a statement. The pharmacy filed suit Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging it had an oral agreement with Jackson to pay for his prescription medications and sent monthly bills that went unpaid by the singer. As of Dec. 25, Jackson owed $101,926 and had made his last payment in mid-2005, the lawsuit said. Kay appointed city prosecutor REDONDO BEACH -- A former Los Angeles County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson and his ``family'' was appointed to a city prosecutor position in Redondo Beach, the city announced Friday. Stephen R. Kay will replace Alan Honeycutt, who was recently appointed to be a Superior Court judge. Kay was a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County for more than 38 years before he retired in 2005. In the late 1960s, he was involved in the Manson family cases. As a city prosecutor, Kay will be limited to prosecuting misdemeanors. -- City News Service |
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