Beverly Hills Ca

Actor Lane Garrison will accept responsibility for the death of a Beverly Hills High School student, his lawyer said in court Thursday as the television star was arraigned on charges of vehicular manslaughter in a fatal car crash. Garrison, 26, has also been charged with two felony drunk driving charges and a misdemeanor count of furnishing alcohol to a minor in the Dec. 2 accident. Garrison, who co-starred in Fox television's "Prison Break" until his character was killed off Oct.

In his bid to become this city's first Iranian American mayor, Vice Mayor Jimmy Delshad was in danger Wednesday of losing his City Council seat altogether. After Tuesday's balloting, he held only a seven-vote lead over third-place finisher Steve Webb, with 892 provisional and absentee ballots to be counted Friday. Nancy Krasne received the most votes of the six candidates, with 2,486 votes. The top two finishers in the race gain seats on the five-member council.

WHEN the Beverly Wilshire injected $35 million into a renovation last year, the 79-year-old matriarch minding the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive had hoped to change its appeal from the old-money elite who came to sleep and shop to younger and hipper crowds inclined toward minimalism and martinis. When the scaffolding came down and the cozy, contemporary and gadget-wired rooms opened, the question was simple: Had this hotel buried its rich history to lure the young, rich and fickle?

"Have you seen your ballot?" Gloria Seiff of Beverly Hills asked friend and fellow resident Betty Harris over the phone. Harris had not. She opened the mail-in ballot and took one look. "I was shocked by it," she said. For the first time, Beverly Hills had translated its entire absentee and sample ballots into Persian. The ballots for the March 6 municipal election, in which two City Council seats are up for grabs, went out this month, and the response was swift.

Actor Omar Sharif was ordered Tuesday to attend anger management classes and serve two years' probation after pleading no contest to hitting a Beverly Hills parking valet. The plea to a single misdemeanor battery charge was entered by Sharif's attorney, Harland W. Braun, because Sharif was in Egypt. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Stone also ordered Sharif to pay a $100 fine. Sharif, best known for his roles in the 1960s films "Dr.

Beverly Hills police said Wednesday that actor Lane Garrison was driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol during a December crash that killed a teenager and recommended that he be charged with gross vehicular manslaughter. Garrison, 26, who co-starred in Fox television's "Prison Break," was behind the wheel of a 2001 Land Rover on Dec. 2 when it plowed into a tree on South Beverly Drive near Olympic Boulevard. The crash killed Vahagn Setian, 17, a popular Beverly Hills High student.

Backers of a 500-seat performance hall in Beverly Hills say they've raised $41 million toward a $51-million goal. Plans are under city review and construction isn't expected to begin until 2008, with a projected opening in 2010. "We're in good shape" on the money front, said Katy Sweet, a spokeswoman for the Wallis Annenberg Center.

It's the height of ritziness: Waldorf-Astoria meets 90210. The storied New York hotel -- an Art Deco landmark that inspired Cole Porter songs and even a salad -- is lending its name to a Beverly Hills project that is stirring up nightmares among traffic-weary residents. Property owner Beny Alagem and Hilton Hotels Corp.

For the Dutton clan, well-respected fixtures of the Los Angeles bookselling world, the last year has been a series of unfortunate events. Dutton's Books and Art on Laurel Canyon Boulevard closed last spring after almost half a century when Davis Dutton left for Washington state. Then, at the end of 2006, Dutton's Beverly Hills shut its doors because of a disagreement over finances with the city, which had lured owner Doug Dutton, Davis Dutton's brother, to the site after a long courtship.

A Beverly Hills medical building has been sold for $42 million, or $626 a square foot, a record price for a Los Angeles County office property. The four-story, 67,000-square-foot building at 120 S. Spaulding Drive was acquired by Beverly Hills investment firm Cambra Realty and New York investment advisor Angelo Gordon & Co., said real estate broker Bob Safai of Madison Partners.