Inglewood Ca

In what may be a county first, an Inglewood native has bequeathed $10,000 to repay the public assistance his immigrant mother received while raising 11 children during the Great Depression, Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke said Tuesday. Joseph Vilarino, 80, died in June and designated that the money aid single mothers and needy Inglewood residents.

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.

Parents fighting the proposed relocation of City Honors High School in Inglewood were dealt a final blow when school board members voted to house it at one of the city's under-performing high schools. City Honors, which offered students college preparatory course work and a chance to earn college credit, will continue to exist, but critics said it will be a far cry from what planners envisioned and parents wanted for their children.

While crime rose across Los Angeles last year, Inglewood proved an unlikely exception, recording a sharp drop in homicides. The city got national attention last year because of a videotaped beating of a 16-year-old by two Inglewood police officers, but Inglewood officials prefer to highlight a 26% decline in homicides.

A key City Council panel on Tuesday refused to approve a lease for new United Airlines cargo facilities at Los Angeles International Airport, agreeing that the project requires further environmental review. The city has already been sued twice over the proposed facilities. The latest lawsuit was filed Friday by the labor union fighting to represent workers at the airport.

Despite the possibility of demonstrations, Inglewood officials Tuesday welcomed a last-minute decision to move the Latin Grammy Awards from Miami to the Forum on Sept. 11. "This is not the first major entertainment event that has been handled by the city of Inglewood, and it won't be the last," Mayor Roosevelt Dorn said. C.

Police said an attempted robbery at a post office was foiled Monday evening when SWAT teams surrounded the building on Century Boulevard. Hours later, it was determined that the two gunmen had escaped. Nothing was taken and there were no injuries in the incident, said watch commander Mike Marshall. Some postal employees said they were terrified when the men, one armed with a pistol and the other with a machine gun, arrived. No one was taken hostage.

In the days after the videotaped police beating of a 16-year-old boy in Inglewood, community activists in Compton and other largely minority communities devised a project that they hope will help avoid further violent confrontations during traffic stops.

A judge lifted a temporary restraining order against the Inglewood Police Department on Wednesday, clearing the way for Officer Jeremy Morse to be fired for his conduct during a videotaped beating of a handcuffed 16-year-old. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lois A. Smaltz ruled that the department had not violated Morse's civil rights during its internal investigation of the July 6 incident.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it had submitted signatures to qualify an Inglewood ballot referendum to overturn an ordinance that effectively bars the retailer from building a supercenter store in that city. Hermanita Harris, the city's interim city clerk, has 30 days to certify that the retailer has the roughly 4,250 signatures needed to qualify the measure, out of more than 9,250 signatures submitted. After that, the City Council must either call an election or repeal the ordinance, she said.