SOUTHLAND: BRIEFLY : FIRE CHARS 15 ACRES AT PARK IN GLENDALE.GLENDALE - A 14-year-old boy was being held Saturday in connection with an investigation of a 15-acre brush fire in Brand Park, police said. The fire started at about 2:30 p.m. in Brand Park at 1601 W. Mountain St. No injuries were reported, a Glendale Fire Department spokesman said. Responding to the blaze were 15 engine companies from Glendale, Burbank and Pasadena as well as four water-dropping helicopters from 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. city and Los Angeles County fire departments, the spokesman said. ?13Daily News 4 people cited during day laborer day labor n. Labor hired and paid by the day. day laborer n. Noun 1. sting AGOURA - Four people were cited Saturday in Agoura Hills for violating the city's day laborer law prohibiting the solicitation of services or donations from people traveling in motor vehicles. The citations were part of a sting operation Noun 1. sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) at Kanan and Agoura roads, in which an undercover sheriff's deputy posing as a day laborer ticketed drivers who asked for work in exchange for wages. The city law was passed in 1991 after residents and businesses complained of traffic safety problems along Kanan and Agoura roads, where laborers gather to look for work each morning. ?13Daily News Driver burned trying to save motor home VAN NUYS - The driver of a motor home was burned when he tried to put out a fire in the vehicle early Saturday, a 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. spokesman said. The driver, who suffered second-degree burns on his hands and one foot, was taken to the Sherman Oaks Hospital Sherman Oaks Hopital (SOH) is an 153 bed acute care facility in Sherman Oaks, California, USA and is home of world renowned the Grossman Burn Center. SOH is owned and operated by Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. and Health Center, Bob Collis said. The motor home was ``totally engulfed'' in fire by the time firefighters arrived at Burbank and Sepulveda boulevards at about 1:30 a.m., he said. The crew of one fire engine made short work of the blaze. ?13City News Service Stabbing takes place on roof of old hotel PASADENA - A stabbing atop the Green Hotel left one man hospitalized and another in jail, police said Saturday. Scott Chasen, 34, of Pasadena underwent surgery following the attack shortly after 8 p.m. Friday and remained hospitalized in stable condition Saturday, Lt. Phlunte Riddle said. Chasen was stabbed about 10 times on the roof of the turreted tur·ret·ed adj. 1. Furnished with turrets or a turret. 2. Having the shape or form of a turret, as certain long-spired gastropod shells. , 94-year-old hotel, authorities said. Rafael Jurado, 50, of Pasadena was booked for investigation of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. . Police were seeking one other man, Riddle said. The motive for the attack was under investigation. It also was unclear why Chasen was on the roof, Riddle said. ?13Associated Press L.A. public defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was charged in sex case A deputy public defender was charged with having unlawful sex with a 17-year-old girl. Chance Oberstein, 39, was charged Friday with 10 felony counts, including sodomy sodomy Noncoital carnal copulation. Sodomy is a crime in some jurisdictions. Some sodomy laws, particularly in Middle Eastern countries and those jurisdictions observing Shari'ah law, provide penalties as severe as life imprisonment for homosexual intercourse, even if the and 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. , the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Oberstein, a county public defender in the Compton office, was arrested at his Orange County home Wednesday and was being held on $1 million bail. He allegedly had sex with the girl between January 1996 and this month. ?13Associated Press 52 years to life given to Rose Bowl rapist PASADENA - A Monrovia man was sentenced to 52 years to life in prison for raping a teen-age girl at the Rose Bowl. Demetrelle Jones, 24, was sentenced earlier this month. Jones claimed the sex was consentual and that the girl was a prostitute. Prosecutors said Jones grabbed the teen-ager from an Altadena street and brought her to the Rose Bowl parking lot, raped her and then left her in Pasadena. ?13Associated Press |
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