James Cooke

James Cooke won the lawsuit but feels as if he lost the war. With the $5.3 million he received from the city of Los Angeles and two engineering consulting firms, Cooke bought a 1992 Mercedes-Benz. He, his wife and their two children recently moved into a five-bedroom, Mediterranean-style home in Villa Park, and Cooke feels secure about the family's financial future. But that is not enough.

James Cook, whose unhappy divorce led him to help write California's pioneering joint custody law three decades ago, died of natural causes Feb. 21 at a nursing facility in West Los Angeles. He was 85. In 1974, when Cook and his wife divorced, he asked for shared custody of their son but the law favored mothers as the primary custodian, with limited visiting rights for the father. "The judge thought it was preposterous," Cook told Time magazine in 2001.

James Cook, whose unhappy divorce led him to help write California's pioneering joint custody law three decades ago, died of natural causes Feb. 21 at a nursing facility in West Los Angeles. He was 85. In 1974, when Cook and his wife divorced, he asked for shared custody of their son but the law favored mothers as the primary custodian, with limited visiting rights for the father. "The judge thought it was preposterous," Cook told Time magazine in 2001.

After the H.M. Bark Endeavour pulls out of port today, with cannons firing and sails billowing, Dick Grebeta of Simi Valley will have the experience of a lifetime. He'll wake at the crack of dawn, he'll scrub and scrape paint, he'll hoist hefty sails, and he'll sleep crammed in like a sardine for five days--just as they did 230 years ago. "He hasn't been sleeping at night, it's so exciting," said his wife, Sally. As the replica of Capt.

To his supporters, Westminster Police Chief James Cook belongs to a rare breed of leaders whose blend of practicality and creativity brings out the best in his crew, resulting in innovative programs that are copied throughout the United States. To critics, he is a pusher of limits who is continually walking a fine line between what's legal and what's moral, between what is effective and what is fair. The chief sees himself as a little of both.

After the H.M. Bark Endeavour pulls out of port today, with cannons firing and sails billowing, Dick Grebeta of Simi Valley will have the experience of a lifetime. He'll wake at the crack of dawn, he'll scrub and scrape paint, he'll hoist hefty sails, and he'll sleep crammed in like a sardine for five days--just as they did 230 years ago. "He hasn't been sleeping at night, it's so exciting," said his wife, Sally. As the replica of Capt.

Construction has begun on the $1-million restaurant portion, to be known as Th'eater, at the $14-million Theatre Center being developed at 514 S. Spring St, by the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre, Bill Bushnell, artistic/producing director. The center was designed by architect John Sergio Fischer. Th'eater was designed and is being developed by 514 South Inc., whose president is James Cooke, also the designer and co-owner of the First Street Bar & Grill in Claremont.

A man accused of raping and killing a University of Delaware student, whose body was discovered in her burning apartment, was found guilty in Dover. James E. Cooke, 36, broke into Lindsey M. Bonistall's apartment in 2005, then raped and strangled the 20-year-old sophomore before placing her body in a bathtub and setting the fire, prosecutors said.

A military court cleared three British soldiers of manslaughter Tuesday in the death of an Iraqi youth who drowned in a canal. The soldiers, who arrested Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali as a suspected looter in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in May 2003, had been accused of forcing him to swim in a canal to punish him. The youth could not swim and died, prosecutors said.

Richard F. Panos was installed as president of the Pasadena & Foothill chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the group's annual dinner at the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena. Installed with him were Richard M. Hennessy, vice president; John K. Grist, secretary, and Ray Zieglar, treasurer. New directors are Del Beckhart, Douglas Mooradian, James F. Cooke, Peter G. Kudrave and the immediate past president, Carl D. Gaede, along with Michael Stone, associate director.

To his supporters, Westminster Police Chief James Cook belongs to a rare breed of leaders whose blend of practicality and creativity brings out the best in his crew, resulting in innovative programs that are copied throughout the United States. To critics, he is a pusher of limits who is continually walking a fine line between what's legal and what's moral, between what is effective and what is fair. The chief sees himself as a little of both.

James Cooke won the lawsuit but feels as if he lost the war. With the $5.3 million he received from the city of Los Angeles and two engineering consulting firms, Cooke bought a 1992 Mercedes-Benz. He, his wife and their two children recently moved into a five-bedroom, Mediterranean-style home in Villa Park, and Cooke feels secure about the family's financial future. But that is not enough.

A report to Mayor Tom Bradley on last month's flash fire that injured two workers at the city's Hyperion Treatment Plant calls for comprehensive new safety procedures and equipment modification to pbevent similar accidents.

A flash fire Tuesday at the Mobil Oil refinery in Torrance critically burned one contract worker and seriously burned another as they tried to clean a large preheater vessel. Tem Mullenax, 33, of Palmer Lake, Colo., suffered second- and third-degree burns over 90% of his body and was in critical condition Wednesday at Torrance Memorial Hospital, spokeswoman Barbara Peterson said. James Cooke, 38, of Ridgecrest, Calif.