News
in a few
Aide • The
Public Relations Student Society of
America, in conjunction with the department
of
journalism, is heading a month-long
aid drive for the victims of Hurricane
Katrina.
Beginning today, donations such as
non-perishable food, clothing and shoes,
and bathing
and grooming supplies will be accepted
in the Daily Forty-Niner newsroom,
SSPA-004. Items will be picked up daily
and dropped
off at the Long Beach chapter of the
American Red Cross. For more information
contact PRSSA President Amanda Ansell
at (661) 992-4488 or Vice President
Louis Afrouznia at (714) 315-3030.
Donations • The Theta Chi Fraternity will be collecting
canned food donations for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Donations
will be accepted at the Theta Chi chapter house located at Seventh Street
and Redondo Avenue. The drive
will continue through Sept. 16.
Terrorism • A
tape delivered to ABC News in Pakistan
this weekend features a masked man
making terrorist threats against Los
Angeles and Australia. ABC News reported
the man is believed to be Adam Yahiye
Gadahn, an American from California
wanted by the FBI and purported to
be an al-Qaida member. The tape was
aired on ABC’s “Good Morning
America” on Sunday, the fourth
anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The
man on the tape, wearing a black turban
with most of his face covered, calls
the attacks of four years ago “blessed
events” before making a threat
against the U.S.
Crime • Two FBI agents on their lunch break captured
a man alleged to be the “Fanny Pack Bandit,” a bank robber who
carried out a nine-month crime spree in the Los Angeles area. The bandit
robbed banks from Manhattan Beach to Santa Monica, often carrying off his
haul in a fanny pack.
Animals • One urban alligator down, one to go.
A 3-foot-long gator dubbed Little Reggie was caught Thursday night in a Harbor
City flood control channel, but its wily, much bigger namesake remained on
the loose. Word of a gator sighting drew firefighters to the channel, where
one leaned out on a truck-mounted ladder to snare Little Reggie in a hand-held
net, Los Angeles city fire spokesman Jim Wells said. “We’ve gone
out on [calls regarding] boa constrictors, snakes. I cannot recall a rescue
of an alligator,” Wells said.
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