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LOS ANGELES

Police officer dies in traffic accident

An officer's body was found around 10:30 a.m. some 10 miles north on the 101 Freeway when California Highway Patrol officers investigating an unrelated collision noticed a car that had apparently driven off an embankment, police Officer Mike Lopez said.

CHP investigators identified a body inside the vehicle as that of a Los Angeles police duty officer who had died in the single-vehicle accident that sent his car tumbling over the embankment, Lopez said.

Officials were withholding the officer's identity until his family could be notified, he said.

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LOS ANGELES

14 arrested in anti-gang sweep

More than 120 members of an anti-gang task force swept through the west side of Los Angeles as part of a campaign to make major one-day shows of force in communities with persistent gang problems.

The Saturday sweep included officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, FBI and Los Angeles, Culver City, Inglewood and Santa Monica police departments.

The group made 14 arrests for outstanding felony warrants after searching 30 homes.

SAN FRANCISCO

City evicts dozens from landmark park

Officials have launched a campaign to evict dozens of people who have made Golden Gate Park their home.

Over the past week, police officers, park employees and homeless outreach workers have been removing homeless encampments and helping squatters move into shelters or leave town.

"It's no longer allowable for people to live in the park," said Trent Rhorer, director of the city's Department of Human Resources.

San Francisco plans to spend $2.8 million on the latest effort to stop people from living and camping in its crown jewel park.

LOS ANGELES

Pioneering female rabbi dies of cancer

Rabbi Carole Meyers, who became the first female rabbi to lead a congregation in the Los Angeles area, has died. She was 50.

Meyers died of bone cancer Thursday at her home, 10 weeks after being diagnosed, said her husband, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ralph Zarefsky.

Meyers took over Temple Sinai of Glendale in 1986. Appointment of a 29-year-old single woman as solo rabbi was uncommon for the time.

Meyers, ordained in 1983 after graduating from Hebrew Union College in New York, was an assistant rabbi in Houston when Temple Sinai selected her.

CHINO

Father showing off gun kills 1-year-old

A 1-year-old boy was shot and killed by his father, who was showing a gun to a relative when it went off, authorities said.

Jose Silva, 26, of West Valley, Utah, was arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter, authorities said.

The boy was in a car seat inside a sport utility vehicle Saturday when he was shot, a city spokeswoman said.

A bullet went through the back seat and hit him. He was taken by helicopter to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, she said.

LOS ANGELES

4 injured as speeding car collides with bus

A bus was hit by a speeding car, leaving the motorist, bus driver and three passengers injured Saturday, authorities said.

Los Angeles firefighters extracted the trapped motorist, an unidentified woman in her 70s, from the car.

She was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, said a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The bus driver and passengers suffered minor injuries, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

SAN DIEGO

Military police officer killed in Iraq

Damon LeGrand never met his youngest daughter, born a few months after he was dispatched to Iraq. The military police officer was only six weeks away from reuniting with his family, including 7-month-old Kelsie, when he was killed northeast of Baghdad. He was 27.

LeGrand, a San Diego native, was assigned to the 571st Military Police Company, 504th Military Police Battalion, 42nd Military Police Brigade at Ft. Lewis, Wash.

The specialist was helping train Iraq's new police force when insurgents ambushed his convoy June 12 with anti-tank mines, rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire in Baqubah.

— From wire reports