BRIEFS : BURBANK POLICE FIND EXPLOSIVE DEVICE.BURBANK - A 28-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after police discovered an explosive device in his pickup truck at a fast food restaurant. The man was booked at Burbank police headquarters on suspicion of attempted murder, possession of a destructive device and possession of a loaded firearm, Sgt. Scott Wilson said. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. safely detonated the explosive device, which was found at about 4 p.m. in the pickup truck in the parking lot of a Jack-In-the-Box restaurant at Buena Vista Street and San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the . No one was injured. The attempted murder charge stems from the suspect's denial that he possessed an explosive device while police officers searched the truck, Wilson said. ``He knowingly allowed an officer to search the truck when an explosive device could have gone off,'' Wilson said. ?13Daily News Mission College set to open new library Los Angeles Mission College Los Angeles Mission College is a two-year community college located in Sylmar, California neighborhood of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District. will officially open its new $12 million library and resources center during a ribbon-cutting ceremony today. The three-level structure includes a 24,425-square-foot library - three times the size of the previous library - computers with Internet access and a virtual library of CD-ROMs that serve as storage centers. Construction of the 57,000-square-foot facility began in the fall of 1994 and was paid for with funds from Proposition 153, a $900 million state higher education bond measure approved in 1992. The ceremony will start at 11:30 a.m. at the entrance to the new Library and Learning Resources Center at 13356 Eldridge Ave., Sylmar. ?13Daily News Hiding assets lands Encino man in jail A former Encino attorney was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday for hiding a sculpture and an offshore bank account from a bankruptcy court and lying under oath Noun 1. lying under oath - criminal offense of making false statements under oath bearing false witness, perjury infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation, infringement - a crime less serious than a felony about his ownership of a Cessna. Michael Freeman, 59, was also ordered to pay $66,000 in restitution to a bankruptcy trustee by U.S. District Judge Kim Wardlaw. He was convicted in December on two counts of concealing assets in his 1994 bankruptcy filing and five counts of making false statements under oath. He resigned from the State Bar of California after he was convicted. Freeman worked as a private practice lawyer who represented car rental companies and taught as an adjunct law professor. ?13City News Service Tax amnesty aims at home businesses Two months after voting to legalize le·gal·ize tr.v. le·gal·ized, le·gal·iz·ing, le·gal·iz·es To make legal or lawful; authorize or sanction by law. le home-based businesses, the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. approved an amnesty program for home-based
companies to pay the city business taxes not paid in recent years.
The period of the amnesty program is from March 5 to June 5. Under the program businesses that agree to pay overdue taxes would not face penalties or criminal prosecution. ?13Daily News DA's Office delays firing of prosecutor The District Attorney's Office has decided to delay firing prosecutor Lawrence M. Longo to give investigators a chance to broaden their inquiries into his dealings with Death Row Records founder Marion ``Suge'' Knight. The District Attorney's Office had told Longo it would fire him because financial dealings between him and Knight created the appearance of impropriety Appearance of impropriety is a term often used in reference to a situation whose ethics is deemed questionable. It means that any layperson, without knowledge of the facts, would assume that something he/she saw or heard was inappropriate or a violation of a rule/regulation. . Knight cut a record deal last year with Longo's 18-year-old daughter and lived in a Malibu Colony home owned by Longo's family while Longo was overseeing the music mogul's case. ?13City News Service INS INS abbr. 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service 2. International News Service Noun 1. INS computers go to East L.A. school Helping to replace computers stolen by thieves over winter break, the Immigration and Naturalization Service Noun 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service - an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States INS in Los Angeles this morning will donate 14 computers, monitors, printers and software to Farmdale Elementary School in East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. . Farmdale School is the first among 30 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. campuses to receive some of the 300 INS-donated computers and other technology resources this year. The donations are part of Partnership for Educational Excellence, a national program to boost student achievement and strengthen ties between the INS and local communities. ?13Daily News |
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