A 32-year-old Ventura man remained hospitalized this week, nearly three weeks after an assault outside a local bar, authorities said.
John Enriquez of Ventura was taken to a hospital June 18 after an assault, authorities said.
The incident was initially reported about 1:30 a.m. June 18 as a battery in front of the Anacapa Brewing Co. at 472 E. Main St. in Ventura. Police were on tactical alert at the time, meaning they could only respond to emergency calls, and they didn’t initially have any indication the incident was more than a fistfight, Ventura police Cmdr. Mark Stadler said.
When officers arrived about 20 minutes after the report, they found no evidence of a crime scene.
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A deal to restrain the U.S. debt and avert a looming default is not imminent as Democrats and Republicans must still overcome “serious disagreements,” House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Friday.
“It’s not like there’s some imminent deal about to happen,” Boehner said at a news conference. “There are serious differences about how to deal with this very serious problem.”
WASHINGTON — No big deal.
President Obama emerged from debt-crisis talks yesterday without a major breakthrough in the stalemate — but he vowed that Democrats and Republicans would stake out their “bottom lines” for a bargain by Sunday.
Obama emphasized that both sides are “still far apart on a wide range of issues.” But he nevertheless called the bargaining session “very constructive.”
The negotiations to increase the government’s $14.3 trillion debt limit have kicked in to overdrive with less than four weeks before Aug. 2, when the United States will run out of borrowed money with which to pay its debts and faces a credit default.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) described the high-stakes negotiations with Obama as “a conversation.”
“It was productive,” he said.
The debt-limit deal remained stuck on Obama’s demand for a $400 billion tax increase on wealthy Americans, oil companies and corporate jets.
However, Obama has signaled a willingness to consider changes to Social Security and Medicare benefits proposed by Republicans.
And Republican leaders have softened their resistance to closing tax loopholes and other tax-code reforms — but not Obama’s tax hikes.
Trial started Tuesday in the case of 17-year-old Brandon McInerney, who is accused of killing gay classmate Lawrence King three years ago after becoming fed up with the 8th grader’s open displays of homosexuality.
While prosecutors painted McInerney as an anti-gay white supremacist, the defense told the jury that the then-14-year-old boy acted out of humiliation, no longer able to withstand the embarrassment brought on by King’s alleged flirting.
In 2008, Lawrence King began wearing jewelry, high-heeled boots, and makeup to school, reports CNN. By all accounts, he had recently become confident enough to openly display his sexuality.
One day, the animosity between him and Brandon McInerney boiled over when McInerney entered a full classroom and shot King in the back of the head.
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Police at scene of police-involved shooting on McDonald Avenue in Brooklyn.
An off-duty cop shot a man who allegedly grabbed another officer’s gun and opened fire Thursday during a fight over a woman outside a Brooklyn bar, authorities said. Witnesses said the argument broke out around 4 a.m. inside the Old Gallery bar in Kensington, and later moved outside after one of the cops inexplicably called Pablo Negron a “rabbit chinchilla.” “People got drunk and they start fighting,” said Daria Saldiran, 25, who was with the victim in the bar celebrating a friend’s birthday.
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