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The Sheri Sangji case is the first criminal case resulting from an academic laboratory accident. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The case arose from a fatal accident that occurred in the chemistry laboratory of Patrick Harran at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Research assistant Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji [ 4] suffered severe burns from a fire ...
The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [ 2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and ...
Ashlyn Robinette. July 15, 2024 at 4:25 PM. Richard Simmons ' likely cause of death has been revealed by the Los Angeles Fire Department. Simmons was found dead at his home on Saturday. The ...
List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
John Leonard Orr (born 1948 or 1949) [1] is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter.A fire captain and arson investigator in Glendale, California, Orr was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder; [2] he is believed to have set nearly 2,000 fires in a thirty-year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific serial ...
Ernest Carroll Moore (1871–1955), educator, co-founder of University of California, Los Angeles [120] Harvey Seeley Mudd (1888–1955), engineer and educator; William Mulholland (1855–1935), engineer, engineered the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Mulholland Dam, St. Francis Dam, Panama Canal consultant, and other dams, namesake of Mulholland Drive ...
Strong winds pushed flames through dry brush in mountains along Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles on Sunday, and officials warned residents in the wildfire's path to be prepared to leave if it ...
Numerous incidents of deaths and violence have occurred at Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. [ a] Originally opened as a middle-class hotel on December 20, 1924, in Downtown Los Angeles, it eventually became a budget hotel, hostel, and rooming house. Its reputation is due to at least 16 sudden or unexplained deaths that have occurred in or around the ...