Mayor nominates 5 for board posts
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Monday that hewas nominating a cross section of labor activists and specialists ashis appointees to the city's Civil Service Board of Commissioners.
Villaraigosa said he was seeking to appoint residents withvarious backgrounds to the panel, which oversees civil-service rulesand disciplinary matters against workers.
The five nominees, subject to City Council confirmation, areSylvia Drew Ivie, a poverty and civil-rights attorney; Yolanda Vega,director of LA Health Action; John Perez, past president of UnitedTeachers Los Angeles; Margaret Leal-Sotelo, a lifetime health policyand labor advocate; and attorney Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz.
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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 SanFernando Valley.
New, unwrapped toys for newborns to age 10 are being accepted atthe organization's corporate office, 1172 N. Maclay Ave., SanFernando, 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 HealthCenter, 1600 San Fernando Road; and Van Nuys Pediatric HealthCenter, 7138 Van Nuys Blvd.
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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 Fridaynight 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 AreaDetective Jim Freund said.
Police have found no eyewitnesses and have few leads, Freundsaid.
'It's a real whodunit,' Freund said. 'We don't know if there wasa dispute before this or anything.'
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call theMission Area Police Station at (818) 838-9800.
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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 neighborhoodcarnival in Jefferson Park.
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner James N. Bianco orderedJason Robert Walton, 21, held on $2 million bail pendingarraignment, which was postponed to Dec. 5 at the defense's request.
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UCLA gets funds for nurse program
Newly approved funding will allow UCLA to restore a bachelor'sdegree 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 undergraduateprogram and a new entry-level master's in nursing - to begin in the2006-07 academic year - the University of California Board ofRegents was responding to the shortage of nurses in California.
Admissions to both new programs are expected to begin in fall2006, and plans call for UCLA to hire 22 new faculty members andfive new staff members in the next three years, officials said.
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Suspect arrested in murder attempt
STUDIO CITY - A man suspected of attempted murder was arrestedMonday after undercover officers spotted him driving a blackMercedes-Benz, police said.
The man, whose identity was not released, was spotted in ShermanOaks. Soon afterward, officers in a patrol car ordered him to stopin the 12600 block of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, Los AngelesPolice Officer Jason Lee said.
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