Identification

Police on Saturday were trying to determine the identity of a girl who either jumped or fell to her death from the top of a parking structure downtown. The incident occurred at 10:50 a.m. Friday in the area of Lincoln Avenue and Anaheim Boulevard. Foul play is not suspected. The girl, who had no identification on her, is believed to be between 13 and 16 years old. She is described as Latina, 5 feet 7, 135 pounds, with dark brown or black wavy hair just below the shoulder.

Launching another election-year initiative to help shield the nation's children, President Clinton on Saturday directed the Justice Department to devise a nationwide plan to track child molesters and sex offenders. In his weekly radio address and in a speech to the U.S.

The leg found clad in a military boot in the rubble of the Oklahoma City bombing belongs to a previously identified victim, meaning the death toll may have to be lowered by one, the medical examiner reported Friday. The FBI used DNA and footprints to match the leg to 21-year-old Airman Lakesha Levy, said Dr. Fred Jordan, the state medical examiner. That means that she was buried with the wrong left leg.

Authorities have been unable to identify a man who was killed Sunday crossing the freeway near the immigration checkpoint south of San Clemente, the first traffic fatality there in two years. The victim was struck while crossing Interstate 5, apparently while running with another man who suffered only minor injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol. The second man, Miguel Pano, 28, also was hit by a car.

A man who was found in the middle of an intersection Saturday morning after being fatally shot was identified Sunday as Robert Jesus Holguin, authorities said. Holguin, 46, of La Habra, collapsed in the intersection of Grace Avenue and Cypress Street about 4:40 a.m. Saturday after being shot "multiple times," police said. Holguin was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Homicide investigators were pursuing several leads Sunday, but no arrests have been made, police said.

A judge in Northampton, Mass., lifted a media ban on naming a dentist accused in a lawsuit of giving AIDS to a patient through contaminated equipment. Superior Court Judge William Welch's ruling came after lawyers representing news media argued that the ban was unconstitutional. Dr. Anthony E. Breglio's lawyer wanted to forbid publication or broadcast of the dentist's name to protect his reputation, even though the trial is open to the public.

Standing beside a table piled high with faux Social Security cards and blank birth certificates, local police and federal agents on Thursday displayed evidence seized during a raid of a major document counterfeiting ring in Santa Ana. Police collected typewriters, laminating machines and large, uncut sheets of counterfeit cards during a Tuesday raid that also netted the arrests of seven people accused of forging government papers.

You read things. You wonder. Like a news story about a dead body some maintenance worker found under a freeway overpass. No identification. How do the authorities determine who that was so the next of kin can be contacted and a proper burial arranged? Gilda Tolbert, the lone investigator for the County Coroner's Identification Unit, and Rick Swanston, a veteran homicide detective in the LAPD's West Valley Division, understand your concern.

Police identified the body of a man found stabbed and beaten to death in a North Hollywood hotel as Albert Peter Fleeman. The 39-year-old man was found dead Thursday night on the floor next to his bed in a room at the Western Village Hotel in the 10800 block of Magnolia Boulevard, police said. The victim's ex-roommate discovered the body about 7 p.m., said LAPD Valley Bureau Det. Sue Plummer. Fleeman had lived by himself in the hotel for the past two years, police said.

Los Angeles police on Friday identified the 39-year-old man who died in a freak car accident in North Hollywood earlier this week as Henry Diaz of Lake View Terrace. Diaz died of a heart attack after the car he was riding in was hit head-on on Lankershim Boulevard near Cantara Street about 6 p.m. Thursday, police said.