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A video circulating on social media captured the moments a bus driver was stabbed Saturday night by a passenger in Willowbrook as other passengers watched. The driver survived and is recovering at home, but the incident heightens concern about the safety of Metro’s bus drivers and passengers. The attack came less 24 hours after an argument among passengers resulted in the stabbing of a 70-year-old man on a bus in Silver Lake and less than a month after another man hijacked and crashed a bus in d…
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The steep financial cost of the 2028 Olympic Games is starting to come into closer focus in the run-up to the Paris Games, as Los Angeles planners are tabulating the billions of dollars that will be needed to prevent traffic jams and long waits for commuters. Grand plans to build rail lines crisscrossing the region by the time the Games start have been dashed, and officials are trying to figure out how to pay more than $1 billion to run buses that will probably disappear after the Games. After v…
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Metro’s top security official was fired two days after she filed a report with the agency’s inspector general’s office, her attorney said. Gina Osborn, a former FBI agent who was the agency’s first chief safety officer, “was summarily terminated by [Chief Executive] Stephanie Wiggins,” said her attorney, Marc R. Greenberg. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it does not comment on personnel issues. In a brief note sent to board members and their staff on Wednesday,…
about 1 month ago
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Developers of a proposed gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium have run into a legal and political backlash as they try to get their 1.2-mile aerial line over Chinatown completed before the 2028 Olympics. A group of environmentalist and community activists sued the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday over its approval last month of a “fatally flawed” environmental review of the project, and implied the city of Los Angeles should have done the report. The Los Angele…
about 1 month ago
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Police say they have become aware of a planned youth “takeover” at the Del Amo Fashion Center on Saturday and will beef up security at the mall to thwart any potential problems. Should it materialize, the takeover would be the latest disturbance at the Torrance shopping center, which recently instituted a chaperon policy after several large youth melees. “We have seen this type of activity play out in community after community,” Torrance Police Department Chief Jay Hart said in a statement poste…
about 1 month ago
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A street vendor and father of two was shot and killed as he was working Wednesday in Long Beach, but police say the bullet wasn’t intended for him. Long Beach police responded along the 100 block of East Eagle Street to reports of gunfire around 4 p.m. and, down the block, found a man shot in the chest. He died later at a hospital. Family members identified the vendor as 37-year-old Yener Ramirez. His widow, Alma Cruz, told KABC-TV Channel 7 that Ramirez had wanted to quit working as a street ve…
about 1 month ago
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Tourists flock to Hollywood Boulevard by the millions every year hoping to glimpse a star and experience glamour, but what they get is a gritty thoroughfare with few trees, crumbling curbs and streetlights that don’t work. The storied boulevard — home to the Academy Awards, TCL Chinese Theatre and the Walk of Fame — is getting a makeover. Plans are underway to revamp a 3.6-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, eliminating two traffic lanes along most of the route, adding bicycle lanes and widenin…
about 1 month ago
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A 27-year-old man was killed in Long Beach when he was ejected from his motorcycle and thrown into the path of a moving train, according to the Long Beach Police Department. The crash occurred Wednesday evening, police said. Mathew Steven Loayza had been driving north on Long Beach Boulevard around 6 p.m. when he tried to pass a 2015 Honda Civic. Loayza hit the Civic’s rear bumper, was ejected from his motorcycle and came into the path of the Metro A Line train as it passed through an intersecti…
about 1 month ago
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A 3-year-old child struck and killed another toddler after getting behind the wheel of a truck over the weekend, according to police. The truck owner left the vehicle running with the 3-year-old in a car seat in the back while he went into a 76 gas station Saturday afternoon, according to police in Woodland, Calif., a city about 15 miles northwest of Sacramento. The child “got out of their car seat and got into the driver’s seat,” police said. “The truck began moving forward and it collided with…
about 1 month ago
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That dazzling streak of light across Los Angeles’ twilight sky around 7:30 p.m. on Monday was Space X’s Falcon 9 carrying 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Earthlings from Southern California to Phoenix were treated to a spectacular, albeit brief, show as night fell and the light illuminated the sky, followed by a contrail that slowly dissipated. But the images quickly flooded social media, and “SpaceX” became a trending topic on the social media site X, where…
about 1 month ago
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An Oakland man on trial in the killing of his ex-girlfriend cut through a lap restraint and attacked his attorney with a pen, then lunged toward the prosecutor, creating a chaotic courtroom scene Monday as a Contra Costa County jury watched, officials said. Ramello Randle, 28, is now facing additional charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and battery, said Jimmy Lee, spokesperson for the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff. His defense attorney, Matt Fregi, said he harb…
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