Thursday, January 1, 2015
2nd suspect arrested for shooting at LAPD patrol car
LOS ANGELES
A second suspect was located in Las Vegas and arrested Wednesday for shooting at a Los Angeles Police Department patrol car in South L.A. on Sunday.James Brooks, 19, was taken into custody after a joint investigation by the FBI and LAPD.
Earlier on Wednesday, prosecutors filed charges against 18-year-old Christopher Taylor.
Taylor, a reputed gang member, was charged with two counts each of shooting into an occupied vehicle and assault on a peace officer with a semi-automatic firearm and one count of assault with a semi-automatic firearm.
Brooks and Taylor allegedly opened fire on rival gang members driving past the area near Hoover Street and Gage Avenue.
"The car sped away just as an LAPD patrol car" drove through, prosecutors said. An officer returned fire, but no one was hit. Brooks and Taylor were both on foot.
Authorities were initially concerned that the officers were ambushed, but an investigation revealed the officers were not the intended target.
Taylor's arraignment hearing Wednesday afternoon was postponed to Jan. 15. Prosecutors are expected to ask Taylor's bail be set at $2 million.
If convicted, Taylor faces life in state prison.
Stage, screen actor Edward Herrmann dies at 71
Edward Herrmann, the towering, melodious-voiced actor who brought Franklin D. Roosevelt to life in films and documentaries, won a Tony Award and charmed audiences as the stuffy dad on TV’s “Gilmore Girls,” died Wednesday. He was 71.
Herrmann died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital of brain cancer, his son, Rory Herrmann said. The actor, who had been hospitalized for several weeks, was surrounded by family members including his wife, Star, and his three children, his son said.
“He was full of knowledge and kindness and goodness. ... He always wanted to share the great and beautiful things in life,” said Rory Herrmann. That included art, music and classic cars.
The 6-foot-5 actor’s favorite role was playing President Roosevelt, his son said, which he did in projects including the TV movies “Eleanor and Franklin” (1976) and its sequel “Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years” (1977) and in the 1982 movie musical “Annie.”
Herrmann also provided the voice for FDR in Ken Burns’ documentary series “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” which aired on PBS earlier this year.
His urbane tones were heard on a variety of other documentaries and on hundreds of audio books including Laura Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken.” He had recently narrated a documentary on cancer, Rory Herrmann said.
He appeared frequently on the big screen, in major films including “Reds” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and was an acclaimed stage actor whose Tony-winning performance came in 1976 for “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.”
Television was also a familiar home, with recent appearances on “The Good Wife” and “How I Met Your Mother. His best-known role came on the 2000-07 series “Gilmore Girls,” on which he played the patrician father of a single mother (Lauren Graham).
Herrmann, a native of Washington, D.C., graduated from Bucknell University and studied his craft on a Fulbright scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1968-69.
January 1, 2015 – NEW YEAR’S DAY
NEW YEAR’S DAY
New Year’s Day is celebrated annually on January 1st.According to Wikipedia, New Year’s Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar. As a date in the Gregorian calendar of Christendom, New Year’s Day liturgically marked the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, and is still observed as such in the Anglican Church and Lutheran Church. In present day, with most countries now using the Gregorian calendar as their de facto calendar, New Year’s Day is probably the world’s most celebrated public holiday, often observed with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts in each time zone.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day for more information.
Ren's Did You Know - Ontario’s early post office
‘Ontario’s early post office was run out of various buildings around town until a dedicated post office building was erected in 1926. This beautiful building, located on West Transit Street, was designed by renowned African-American architect Paul Revere Williams and served ...as the city’s post office until 1941, when a larger building was constructed on Holt Boulevard. The building, converted into artist’s lofts, still stands today and is one of the city’s historic landmarks.’
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