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Mayor nominates 5 for board posts

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Monday that he was nominating a cross section of labor activists and specialists as his appointees to the city's Civil Service Board of Commissioners.

Villaraigosa said he was seeking to appoint residents with various backgrounds to the panel, which oversees civil-service rules and disciplinary matters against workers.

The five nominees, subject to City Council confirmation, are Sylvia Drew Ivie, a poverty and civil-rights attorney; Yolanda Vega, director of LA Health Action; John Perez, past president of United Teachers Los Angeles; Margaret Leal-Sotelo, a lifetime health policy and labor advocate; and attorney Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz.

- Daily News

New toys needed for holiday drive

The Northeast Valley Health Corp. is collecting toys through Dec. 7 to make the holidays brighter for needy children in the San Fernando Valley.

New, unwrapped toys for newborns to age 10 are being accepted at the organization's corporate office, 1172 N. Maclay Ave., San Fernando, and at the following locations: Canoga Park Health Center, 7107 Remmet Ave.; Valencia Health Center, 23763 Valencia Blvd; Pacoima Health Center, 12756 Van Nuys Blvd.; San Fernando Health Center, 1600 San Fernando Road; and Van Nuys Pediatric Health Center, 7138 Van Nuys Blvd.

- Daily News

Shooting victim is ID'd by police

SYLMAR - Juan Borjas, a 20-year-old resident of Canyon Country, was identified by police as the victim in a fatal shooting Friday night on the 1300 block of MacNeil Street.

Borjas was shot multiple times in the roadway about 7:30 p.m., and died at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Area Detective Jim Freund said.

Police have found no eyewitnesses and have few leads, Freund said.

``It's a real whodunit,'' Freund said. ``We don't know if there was a dispute before this or anything.''

Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Mission Area Police Station at [phone].

- Daily News

Man, 21, charged in carnival death

An alleged gang member was charged Monday with murder in the Nov. 13 shooting death of a 14-year-old boy outside a neighborhood carnival in Jefferson Park.

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner James N. Bianco ordered Jason Robert Walton, 21, held on $2 million bail pending arraignment, which was postponed to Dec. 5 at the defense's request.

- City News Service

UCLA gets funds for nurse program

Newly approved funding will allow UCLA to restore a bachelor's degree program in nursing that fell under the budget ax in the mid-1990s, the university said Monday.

In voting to approve $5.2 million to fund the undergraduate program and a new entry-level master's in nursing - to begin in the 2006-07 academic year - the University of California Board of Regents was responding to the shortage of nurses in California.

Admissions to both new programs are expected to begin in fall 2006, and plans call for UCLA to hire 22 new faculty members and five new staff members in the next three years, officials said.

- City News Service

Suspect arrested in murder attempt

STUDIO CITY - A man suspected of attempted murder was arrested Monday after undercover officers spotted him driving a black Mercedes-Benz, police said.

The man, whose identity was not released, was spotted in Sherman Oaks. Soon afterward, officers in a patrol car ordered him to stop in the 12600 block of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles Police Officer Jason Lee said.

- City News Service