Inglewood Ca

A proposed $2-billion real estate development that would replace the historic Hollywood Park racetrack and change the face of Inglewood may get the go-ahead tonight from the City Council. The track's owner, Bay Area developer Wilson Meany Sullivan, plans to start work on a massive retail and residential complex in about a year if the council approves the project.

It was just a box filled with a bunch of papers when Inglewood sanitation superintendent Harry Frisby sealed and buried it more than three decades ago. But by the time his son Harry Frisby Jr. unearthed and cracked open the time capsule Thursday, the contents had become mildew-smelling history. The capsule from 35 years ago, and another from 50 years ago, were opened last week in a ceremony marking the South Bay city's centennial anniversary.

Inglewood officials did not attend Michael Byoune's funeral Thursday, even though the City Council agreed earlier this week to pay for services for the 19-year-old who was killed in a police shooting that officials called "tragic" and that remains under investigation. Paying for the services was "just the humane thing for the city of Inglewood to do," said Councilman Daniel Tabor, whose district includes the Morningside Park neighborhood where Byoune was killed.

There was a time when downtown Inglewood pulsed with life. Market Street was a hub of activity with movie theaters, restaurants, shops and popular anchor stores such as JCPenney and S.H. Kress & Co. People came "from the edges of L.A. and the ocean. Inglewood was the spot," said Leonard "Budd" Utter, 87, president of the local historical society, who has lived in the city most of his life.

The mother of a 19-year-old man who was fatally shot by Inglewood police officers who mistakenly believed gunfire was coming from the vehicle he was riding in filed a claim seeking $25 million in damages from the city, the family's attorney said Monday. It was filed on behalf of Michael Byoune, who died from his wounds, along with driver Larry White, 19, and passenger, Chris Larkin, 21, both of whom were injured in the May 11 shooting outside a Rally's restaurant, said attorney Carl Douglas.

Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn has won election to a third term, overcoming a controversy over a low-interest $500,000 loan he received from the city. Officials announced Wednesday that Dorn, in one of the lowest election turnouts in recent memory in Inglewood, captured slightly more than 58% of the vote to nearly 42% for veteran City Councilwoman Judy Dunlap. In all, 6,542 ballots were cast in Tuesday's runoff election, representing less than 15% of the city's registered voters.

Three Inglewood girls said Saturday that they were attacked last week by at least 13 other teenagers on a sidewalk across the street from the Inglewood Unified School District offices and a continuation school. The girls, ages 16, 17 and 18, said at a news conference that they were held down and kicked Wednesday afternoon, and that two of them suffered injuries requiring outpatient hospital treatment.

At least six current or former Inglewood police officers are under investigation for allegedly having sex with female employees of massage parlors and other adult businesses that have been the target of a high-profile law enforcement crackdown. The internal affairs investigation by the Inglewood Police Department began after federal authorities launched an investigation of money laundering and prostitution involving women smuggled into Los Angeles from Asia.

A second trial in the Halloween beating of three white women by a group of black youths was transferred Thursday out of Long Beach. Two 15-year-olds exercised their right to have their case heard by a judge rather than a court commissioner, the only jurist available in Long Beach for the juvenile proceeding. The next hearing is scheduled for April 23 in Inglewood.

Bad blood between Inglewood's mayor and its elected city clerk boiled over during the city's municipal elections Tuesday, with each accusing the other of interfering with the process. City Clerk Yvonne Horton and an election volunteer said Mayor Roosevelt F. Dorn instructed a photographer to take pictures of workers verifying absentee ballots. He also accused them of pulling a "switcheroo" with the results, they said.