After serving assesses cerritos center as a segerstrom hall spells out battalion surgeon during World War II, he returned to Southern California and started a private practice in internal medicine and cardiology. . Two City Council members Tuesday sought a review of the city's outside legal bills, saying they wanted to know if too much money has been paid on recent claims, including one involving firefighter Tennie Pierce. Councilmen Bill Rosendahl and Dennis Zine voiced dismay that the city spent $1. 3 million to defend itself against a discrimination lawsuit filed by Pierce, who said he was hazed by fellow firefighters and fed spaghetti laced with dog food. The costs were incurred by the firm Jones Day since December, when Zine first proposed that the city hire outside lawyers in the case. Zine requested outside lawyers in the days after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vetoed a $2. 7 million settlement offer made to Pierce by the council. . Anaheim moved a step closer Tuesday to giving voters zoning control over a third theme park planned by the Walt Disney Co. In a 3-2 vote, the City Council directed staff to begin a process that would ultimately put the Anaheim Voter Empowerment Initiative on a ballot. Once there, supporters say, it could counter two Disney-backed measures aimed at keeping the neighborhood surrounding Disneyland and California Adventure free of housing. "I think people on both sides need to have their voices heard at the ballot box," Councilwoman Lucille Kring said. Council members Lorri Galloway and Bob Hernandez had previously voiced their support for the empowerment initiative. The third vote came from Kring, who in April had sided with the council majority in deciding to allow a proposed 1,500-unit housing project near the planned third theme park. Kring said Tuesday that she generally doesn't approve of ballot measures but saw the logic in an initiative asking voters to endorse any new uses for 53 acres of Disney property, which are now strawberry fields and Disneyland employee parking. If the empowerment measure wins council approval, it would save supporters the time and expense of gathering about 14,000 signatures to get it on the ballot. Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle, who voted no, called the initiative "a punitive and retaliatory measure" against Disney's efforts to preserve the resort district. "This level of punitive action doesn't make our city look very good," Pringle said. Kring, on the other hand, said she would continue working with the housing developer on a holistic compromise so that none of the measures appear on the ballot. --dave. mckibben. Sheriff Bob Doyle notified county officials Tuesday that he was moving up his retirement date by several weeks, making today his last day in office. Doyle's resignation last month to accept a gubernatorial appointment to the state parole board surprised supervisors, who had to choose a new sheriff to fill the remaining three years of Doyle's term. In a rebuke to Doyle, the board chose Stanley Sniff Jr. , a former assistant sheriff who spent 28 years in the department before he was fired by Doyle without explanation last year. County spokesman Ray Smith said Assistant Sheriff Pat McManus would assume control of Sheriff's Department operations until next week, when Sniff is expected to be sworn in. . Nai Yin Xue arrived at Los Angeles International Airport two weeks ago from Melbourne, Australia, as just another face in the crowd. Hours before catching his flight, however, the 54-year-old martial arts master and publisher of New Zealand's largest Chinese-language weekly allegedly left his 3-year-old daughter alone at a Melbourne train station on Sept.
15. Authorities now believe Xue's arrival was part of an elaborate escape from New Zealand after he allegedly strangled his 27-year-old wife, An An Liu, whose body was found Sept los cerritos center . 19, a few days after he arrived in L. A. Now, Xue is New Zealand's most wanted fugitive, the target of an international manhunt that is focusing on Chinese American communities in Los Angeles' Chinatown, the San Gabriel Valley and the Bay Area. The U. S performing art center . Marshals Service blanketed Asian American media outlets in Southern California with Xue's image this week performing arts theatre . Authorities say Xue's Mandarin language skills and familiarity with the area would make it easy for him to blend in both in Chinatown and around the heavily Chinese districts along Valley Boulevard in the San Gabriel Valley. The case has consumed the New Zealand media for weeks and, in recent days, Southern California's Chinese-language media. Cat Chao, host of a Mandarin-language talk show on KAZN-AM (1300), said she and her fellow anchors had been talking about the case so much that she brought a legal expert onto her show Tuesday to discuss how Xue could be extradited if caught. "We'd like to recognize his face so if we're in the supermarket or something we can call the police," Chao said "Everyone wants to help catch him center for performing arts . This is really big news in the Chinese community. "Michael Cheung, president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Assn. , said rumors had been swirling that Xue was staying in a Chinatown hotel, prompting many residents to watch for him. "I don't think he can hide long The Chinese community here, even in downtown, is tight People know each other," Cheung said. "If he shows up, they will know it's him right away. "Xue's case probably would not have generated international attention if not for the haunting surveillance video images of his daughter roaming alone through Melbourne's train station after he allegedly abandoned her. It became known as the "Pumpkin case" because authorities initially nicknamed the girl after the brand of clothing she was wearing before they determined her identity. At first, much of the attention focused on the girl, Qian Xun Xue. This week she was reunited with her grandmother from China, who is expected to return there with Qian. Then authorities found the girl's mother dead in the trunk of a car outside the family's Auckland home. Authorities and news accounts describe Xue as a colorful character who lived in New Zealand for 10 years and ran a Chinese-language newspaper.
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"Some communities may not have a full understanding about the laws and processes and may bring a distrust of the [justice] system from their home country. "He added that people in the Chinese community have been forthcoming with tips. "This guy also once lived in Los Angeles, so he wasn't a total stranger to the Chinese community," said George Bao, a reporter who has been covering the story for the Chinese Daily News, the largest circulation Chinese-language newspaper in Los Angeles cerritos center for performing arts . Chao, the radio host, said the case is overshadowing the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. "Today is like our Thanksgiving," she said "You don't want to talk about something negative performing arts theater . This is a day for families to get together, but there's this awful tragedy. "--andrew. blanksteindavid. pierson kravitz center . Prompted by the recent deaths of three blue whales, an environmental group has asked for federal imposition of a speed limit on freighters and tankers in the Santa Barbara Channel. A limit of 10 knots would make fewer collisions lethal and give whales more time to elude danger, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. It has been confirmed that two of the dead whales collided with ships, and it is suspected that the third also did. ctr center . Actor Kiefer Sutherland was arrested early Tuesday on suspicion of misdemeanor drunk driving in West Los Angeles, while still on probation after a 2004 conviction for a similar offense, authorities said. Sutherland, who plays counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer on the popular Fox TV show "24," has been convicted or pleaded no contest three times locally since 1989 on alcohol-related charges . He was pulled over about 1:30 a. m. near La Cienega and Beverly boulevards after police spotted him making an illegal U-turn, said Officer Ana Aguirre, an LAPD spokeswoman. Aguirre said Sutherland, 40, failed a Breathalyzer exam, registering over the legal blood alcohol limit of 0. 08%, before being arrested. He was booked at the Hollywood station and released about 4 a. m after posting $25,000 bail, Aguirre said Sutherland is scheduled to appear in court Oct.
16. The city attorney's office had not received the police report and had not filed charges by late Tuesday Cerritos Center - cerritoscenter . A misdemeanor driving under the influence count would carry a maximum sentence of a year in jail . Sutherland also could face a charge of violating probation. Los Angeles County Superior Court records show Sutherland was twice convicted for alcohol-related reckless driving, in 1989 and in 1993. In November 2004, Sutherland pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence and was sentenced to 60 months of probation and 50 hours of community service and ordered to attend an alcohol treatment program, said Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the city attorney's office. Sutherland won a best actor Emmy last year for his performance on "24," which is scheduled to return to the Fox TV lineup in January. Fox held a party Monday night at the trendy Area nightclub, near where the actor was stopped, but it wasn't known if he had attended pac center . The event was a celebration of the network's new fall shows. "It would be premature to comment at this time," said Sutherland's publicist, Evelyn Karamanos. Sutherland, who was raised in Canada, received the Award of Excellence on Tuesday from the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, an actors union, for his contribution to fellow Canadian performers and the entertainment industry. Cerritos Center tickets --tami. abdollahrichard. winton art center . A 16-year-old Anaheim High School student was stabbed at a restaurant across from the school in what police say was a gang-related incident. Sgt . Rick Martinez of the Anaheim Police Department said Tuesday that the teenager was eating at a small Mexican restaurant at Lincoln Avenue and Citron Street about 2:15 p. m. Monday when he was stabbed after an argument with two men. "During the fight, one suspect pulls out a knife and stabs the kid in the back," Martinez said Cerritos Center . He said the men fled in a car. The teenager was hospitalized and is expected to survive, Martinez said.
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