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• Pedestrian killed in Covina crosswalk

  
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  A 56-year-old woman was struck by a car and killed in a Covina crosswalk on Sunday, police said. Annie Tomassacci of Covina was walking in the crosswalk at Badillo Street and Grandview Avenue about  1:50 p.m.,  when she was struck by a car traveling southbound on Grandview, according to Covina police. The driver ...
  21 hours ago

• Opposition intensifies for 710 Freeway tunnel plan

  
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  Glendale says its willing to put its money where its mouth is in the possible extension of the 710 Freeway, where officials fear an extension will worsen traffic in the city. The City Council this week endorsed taking a more active role inopposing the proposed tunnel extension of the 710 Freeway — a fightthat ...
  3 days ago

• Map of Hollywood road closures for Sunday’s Oscars

  
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  Expect more closures of roads and sidewalks in Hollywood on Saturday night and Sunday in preparation for the 82nd Academy Awards. See the map below for street closures around the Kodak Theatre near Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue. A new Times database puts readers on the sidewalks of Hollywood, ...
  1 week ago

• Academy Awards bring Hollywood traffic mess

  
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  Getting through Hollywood is going to be a chore this weekend as streets close for Sundays Academy Awards. A portion of Hollywood Boulevard is already shut down between Highland Avenue and Orange Drive, and L.A. officials said more closures would occur Sunday morning: -- Hollywood Boulevard will be closed from LaBrea ...
  1 week ago

• About That March iPad Release Date…

  
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  When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPad on Jan. 27 , he said it would be “available” in 60 days, implying an on-sale date of March 25. By announcing a pre-sale date of March 12, as it did this morning , the company has technically fulfilled that promise–yet it is not delivering the device to customers ...
  1 week ago

• Education protesters try to block traffic in Northridge

  
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  Police shut down Reseda Boulevard near Nordhoff Street Thursday afternoon near Cal State Northridge after protesters tried to march against oncoming traffic, authorities said. The protesters were rallying as part of a nationwide day of action to call attention to budget cuts in education. The group was going ...
  1 week ago

• Two people die in collision on 605 Freeway in Cerritos [Updated]

  
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  At least two people died Wednesday night in a collision involving multiple vehicles on the northbound 605 Freeway near the 91 Freeway in Cerritos, authorities said. The accident was reported shortly before 7 p.m. and snarled traffic on all northbound lanes, the California Highway Patrol said. The CHP said initial ...
  1 week ago

• Car plummets down canyon after driver swerves to avoid hitting animal [Updated]

  
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  L.A. county rescuers Monday evening were trying to reach two people in a vehicle that had plummeted down a steep ravine after swerving to avoid hitting an animal in the hills near Malibu, authorities said. A fire engine at the scene off Stunt Road near Mulholland Highway reported that the vehicle was about 80 feet ...
  1 week ago

• Truck driver dies after colliding with train in Ventura County

  
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  A pickup truck driver died Monday after colliding with an Amtrak train in Ventura County, authorities said. A northbound Pacific Surfliner collided with the pickup about 10:25 a.m. at a private crossing in Moorpark, Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham said. The only person in the truck died at the scene, said Sherri ...
  2 weeks ago

• No tsunami, but winter tides enough to flood Pacific Coast Highway

  
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  Two separate high tides flooded several Orange County coastal cities Sunday morning, forcing sections of Pacific Coast Highway to close. At about 8:30 a.m., water flooded all lanes of the highway near the main entrance to Bolsa Chica State Beach, Huntington Beach Police Lt. Mike Reynolds said. Sand and ocean debris ...
  2 weeks ago

• Marines called in after grenade closes Interstate 5 in San Clemente [Updated]

  
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  Both sides of Interstate 5 were closed this afternoon after officials discovered what appears to be a grenade on the roadway. [ Updated at 2:15 p.m.: The grenade has been removed, and at least part of the freeway has reopened.] The traffic backup was building on both sides of the freeway due to the closure, which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Classes canceled at school after 8th-grader is killed in hit-and-run in Brentwood, students say

  
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  Classes were canceled Friday at Harvard-Westlake middle school after the hit-and-run death in Brentwood of an eighth-grader, students said. Julia Siegler, 13, was hit by a silver Mercedes about 7:20 a.m. Friday while crossing Sunset Boulevard near Cliffwood Drive to catch her school bus, police said. Friends at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Police search for Mercedes that fatally hit girl trying to catch school bus

  
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  Police searched Friday for the driver of a gray or black Mercedes-Benz sedan that fatally struck a middle-school girl as she was crossing a street in Brentwood. The girl was reportedly crossing on foot against a red light ahead of her mother about 7:20 a.m. as she tried to catch a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Funding for Mulholland Drive sinkhole repairs set to be approved

  
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  Public works officials in Los Angeles said they could get approval as soon as Friday to use $690,000 to perform emergency repairs to a portion of westbound Mulholland Drive in Studio City , where a large sinkhole developed during recent rainstorms. The Los Angeles City Council is expected to ask the city controller ...
  2 weeks ago

• Off-duty LAPD officer killed in Diamond Bar car accident

  
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  Authorities on Friday were investigating the death of an off-duty LAPD officer who swerved into oncoming traffic, causing a four-vehicle collision in Diamond Bar. Jacqueline Montalvo, 37, a veteran of the LAPDs Hollywood division, was driving north on Grand Avenue near Longview Drive about 5:30 p.m. Thursday when her ...
  2 weeks ago

• MTA will audit litigation costs amid questions over 15-year legal battle

  
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  The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved an internal audit of the agency’s litigation costs amid questions about how much the agency has spend on a long-running lawsuit with contractors. Some MTA board members called for the audit, which was approved unanimously, after reports that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• LAPD officer dies in off-duty crash [Updated]

  
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  An off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer died Thursday evening and three other people were injured in a vehicle collision in Diamond Bar, authorities said. The accident occurred about 5:30 p.m.on Grand Avenue near Longview Drive. The officers car apparently hit at least one oncoming vehicle, the Los Angeles ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fatal multiple-vehicle collision snarls traffic on 101 Freeway near Sepulveda Boulevard

  
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  An eight-vehicle collision resulted in one fatality and snarled traffic Wednesday night on the eastbound 101 Freeway near Sepulveda Boulevard, authorities said. One of the vehicles involved was a big-rig truck. Only one eastbound lane was open as of 10 p.m., the California Highway Patrol said. The accident was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bicyclists plan ride in downtown L.A. to protest unfair treatment

  
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  The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition plans to hold a bike ride Wednesday afternoon to call for justice for victims of hit-and-run accidents and to protest what it says is unfair treatment of cyclists. The ride is scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m. at Melrose Avenue and Heliotrope Drive in Hollywood and end at Los ...
  2 weeks ago

• Police looking at case of O.C. man struck by trains twice in two weeks

  
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  Irvine police Wednesday morning continued to investigate the case of a man who was struck by a Metrolink train Tuesday morning in Irvine -- two weeks after he was struck by another Metrolink train in Laguna Niguel. In the Tuesday incident, the man suffered injuries to his hand and arm, the Irvine Police Department ...
  2 weeks ago

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