Anaheim Ca

Boeing Co. will shutter its historic Anaheim defense facility and shift the operation's 3,700 jobs to Huntington Beach over the next four years, the aerospace giant said Friday. The facility, Anaheim's second-biggest employer after Disneyland, was the birthplace of the guidance systems for the world's first nuclear submarine and developed components for the manned space program. It boasted 36,000 workers at its Cold War peak.

Seven Muslim families filed a lawsuit Friday alleging religious and housing discrimination at an Anaheim apartment complex. The suit alleges that the owner and the manager of Chaumont Villas refused to make repairs to apartments, don't allow Muslim children to play in public areas and have harassed Muslim families because of their faith. The suit was announced at a news conference in front of the complex at 1600 W.

An Anaheim man was killed Sunday during a fight that police said appeared to be gang-related. Anaheim police found Rigoberto Tineda, 21, outside the Lincoln Palms Motel in the 1600 block of East Lincoln Avenue about 4 a.m. after responding to calls of a fight, and then another of "shots fired." Police were unable to find any witnesses to the shooting, according to spokesman Sgt. Rick Martinez. But they suspect that at least one other person was also shot during the course of the altercation.

Rap group 2 Live Crew, which canceled appearances at the Celebrity Theater in Anaheim and the Country Club in Reseda last month in the midst of national controversy over the group's allegedly obscene recordings, will play the Celebrity on Nov. 9, according to theater officials. More new Southern California shows are expected to be announced next week, a spokeswoman for the Crew's booking agency in New York said.

An Anaheim junior high school teacher was arrested Friday on suspicion of having sex with a 14-year-old female student. Carlos Jose Melendez, 32, a teacher at Ball Junior High School, was taken into custody after the student's parents notified police of the alleged sexual contact, said Sgt. Rick Martinez, a spokesman for the Anaheim Police Department. "We immediately launched an investigation which resulted in our asking him to come to the police station today," Martinez said.

An Anaheim fourth-grade teacher was suspended Thursday after his arrest on suspicion of prostitution, authorities said. Dennis William Gosnell, 32, of Tustin was arrested about 6 p.m. Wednesday during a sting operation at an Anaheim motel and released several hours later on $1,000 bail, said Anaheim Police Department spokesman Rick Martinez. The teacher is accused of offering to perform a sexual act for money with a male undercover officer, Martinez said.

Community policing efforts are being credited for a significant overall drop in crime last year in 10 neighborhoods across the city. According to recently released statistics, reported crimes in the targeted neighborhoods were down 21% in 1995 compared with the previous year. The areas are in central and western Anaheim. Community policing "is achieving a positive result," Mayor Tom Daly said after reviewing the progress report.

Anaheim police are searching for a Redlands woman who apparently disappeared from Disneyland this month with her 11-year-old daughter. The woman's 8-year-old son was found wandering alone in the resort, police said. He told relatives that the family had gone to Disneyland together and his mother left him with people they had met at the park. Police can't verify the story. "There are a lot of unanswered questions," police Sgt. Rick Martinez said. "We really don't know what happened to her.

A rapidly growing Inland Empire hospital chain, whose bid to buy an Anaheim hospital was rejected last summer by the state attorney general, is one of half a dozen companies trying again to buy the struggling medical center. In July, the state declined to approve a $55-million sale of 223-bed Anaheim Memorial Medical Center to Prime Healthcare Services Inc. The firm is co-owned by Dr. Prem Reddy, a prominent and controversial cardiologist from Victorville, and a trust owned by his family.