Giants Fan Beating Reward Raised

1. The reward offered in the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium has grown to $25,000, it was announced Monday. A $10,000 reward offered by the San Francisco Giants and $5,000 from American Medical Response, the victim's employer, has been added to the $10,000 reward Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich issued Saturday, Antonovich said. Bryan Stow, a paramedic from the Santa Cruz area, was beaten in a parking lot of Dodger Stadium Thursday following the season-opening game between the Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers. Stow was wearing Giants clothing. A sketch of the two suspects between 18 and 25 wearing Dodger clothing has been released by the Los Angeles Police Department. Anyone with information on the beating was asked to call LAPD detectives at (213) 847-4261.

2. At 7 p.m., Mexican writer and performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena will present a solo performance titled ``Strange Democracy'' at the Armand Hammer Museum, focusing on the end of the Bush era and the challenges facing President Barack Obama, as well as his take on the anti-immigration issue. 

3. Southland residents will have another opportunity at the end of the month to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs. The Drug Enforcement Agency's second National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day will take place April 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at sites throughout the region. The service is free and anonymous, with no questions asked. Last September, Americans turned in more than 242,000 pounds -- or 121 tons -- of prescription drugs at nearly 4,100 sites across the country operated by more than 3,000 of the DEA's state and local law enforcement partners.

4. A federal judge in Orange County overseeing class-action lawsuits against Toyota over sudden-acceleration problems threw out the complaints of foreign consumers Monday, but gave their attorneys another two months to amend their case. U.S. District Judge James Selna, though, gave the attorneys representing the 41 plaintiffs from 13 countries just 20 days to offer proof related to their claims. Hundreds of lawsuits filed across the United States have been combined into the class-action complaints before Selna, alleging Toyota failed to install acceleration override systems, as the company's competitors did. 

5. Weather today: Partly cloudy, highs in the 60s. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, lows in the lower 50s.

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