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A Harbor College geography professor, who for two years barraged TV weatherman Fritz Coleman with e-mails contending his forecasts are inaccurate, has been convicted of violating a judge's order to stop harassing him.

Melanie Patton Renfrew, 54, who has taught at the Harbor College Wilmington campus since 1997, pleaded no contest Aug. 7 in Burbank court to violating a restraining order [KNBC weatherman Fritz] Coleman had obtained to keep her from stalking him.

In an interview at her El Camino Village home, in an e-mail and in an entry on her own blog, Renfrew denied she is a stalker, saying she was trying to get the KNBC weatherman to change the terminology he uses to describe onshore and offshore winds to better inform the public.
She contends it is a science and health issue.

"I did what I felt God was calling me to do," she said in an interview. "I don't feel obsessive."

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A doctor driving a Mercedes Benz struck and killed another doctor running across a street at the entrance of Los Angeles International Airport, police said Thursday.

Richard Burrus, 59, was crossing Sepulveda outside of a crosswalk when he was hit in the No. 3 lane.

Scott, the driver, wearing green scrubs, ran to Burrus' side to help him as police and paramedics arrived. Burrus died at a local hospital.


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[both from http://www.laobserved.com/]