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- Elon Musk's 'Hyperloop' would shorten LA-to-San Francisco trips to 30 minutes, for $20
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 10:31 PMImagine taking a jaunt from Los Angeles to San Francisco in half an hour -- less than the daily commute times for many Angelenos -- for about $20.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Meeting to focus on NRG Energy's El Segundo repowering plan
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 08:29 PMA meeting is set for 5 p.m. today on NRG Energy's plans to decommission two utility boilers at its El Segundo facility and replace them with four new units.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Quick action, good luck, lead to rescue of man who jumped from Belmont Pier
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 06:54 PMTraining and a touch of good fortune Sunday may have helped avert a suicide attempt Sunday at the Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier. Photos: Man rescued after Belmont Pier jump
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FedEx senior pilot on a mission to quiet the jet noise around LAX
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 06:33 PMDan Delane, one of FedEx's top pilots in Los Angeles, is something of an idealist. When it comes to flying, he likes to see things as they could be. And he thinks airplanes operating at Los Angeles International Airport can be quieter than they are today, using existing technology.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Increase in residential construction shakes up Manhattan Beach neighbors
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 12:00 AMRadio noise filtering into the neighborhood, heavy equipment vehicles showing up a half hour early -- those are simply inconveniences that come along with residential construction, Manhattan Beach resident Marty Friedman said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - L.A. Councilman Mike Bonin seeks answers on LAX contracts, consultants
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 11:55 PMLos Angeles World Airports is a bit of an enigma. It's a department of the city Los Angeles, so it must answer to the City Council and follow most municipal rules.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Family of Rosemead woman killed by deputies claim shooting was 'unprovoked and malicious'
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 07:26 PMAttorneys for the family of a schizophrenic woman shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in January 2012 attended a mandatory mediation meeting Friday to discuss a lawsuit that names the Sheriff's Department and the clinic where she was shot as defendants.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Politics could pit Lowenthals against one another
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 12:52 AMThey've won 20 elections in the last 20 years. They've held seats in Congress, state Senate, state Assembly, Long Beach City Council, Long Beach school board and Los Angeles Superior Court.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - DWP contract proposal would save $7 billion over 40 years, report says
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 10:52 PMA proposed contract with Department of Water and Power workers will save the city between $4.9 billion and $7 billion over the next 40 years and is the best way to deal with issues involving pensions and salary parity, according to an independent review released Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Database: Rewards offered for information leading to conviction
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 11:04 PMFrom January 2008 to April 2013, 372 rewards were offered by the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for information leading to the conviction of a suspect or suspects in criminal cases.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Police seek San Pedro suspects caught on video in liquor burglary, theft incidents
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 09:08 PMA young man used his skateboard to smash his way into a locked Fresh & Easy market in San Pedro and took inexpensive beer and wine. In other crimes, two men were caught on video stealing beer from two separate San Pedro stores.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Los Angeles county school trash challenge accepting registrations
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 08:30 PMOrganizers of a contest challenging schools in Los Angeles County to reduce the amount of trash they produce are now accepting registrations.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tuesday's police log: Carson and Torrance
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 07:39 PMRecent police activities in Carson and Torrance. | POLICE NEWS | BLOG: SOUTH BAY CRIME, COURT NEWS | FACEBOOK
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - L.A. Fire dispatcher dies after collapsing at work
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 03:56 PMLOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Fire Department dispatch supervisor collapsed today at the LAFD's Metropolitan Fire Communications Center and died at a hospital, authorities said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local insurance agent sold seniors worthless investments, state regulators said
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 12:04 AMA former South Bay insurance agent who sold more than $1.5 million in worthless securities to seniors he often met through his Redondo Beach church has surrendered his licenses to state regulators and will never work in the industry again.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bill would pool Caltech, Berkeley earthquake research for early warning system
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 07:17 PMA bill that would pool the research abilities of Caltech and UC Berkeley as well as create a statewide early earthquake warning system moved a step closer to the governor's desk as seismologists continue testing equipment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Back to school means big changes, challenges at LAUSD
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 09:51 PMThe start of classes Tuesday will launch a watershed year for Los Angeles Unified as it rolls out a new curriculum, toughens its graduation requirements and launches an innovative system for dealing with disruptive students.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Three killed, two wounded in bloody Pomona night
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 03:55 PMPOMONA - It was a bloody night in Pomona, with four shootings in six hours and at least three confirmed deaths, police and firefighters said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Special Report: Rewards for unsolved crimes in Los Angeles County rarely useful
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 11:02 PMOffering financial rewards to the public in exchange for help in solving violent crimes seems like an effective crime-fighting tool that would appeal to a common human desire for personal profit.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Ballona Wetlands focus of Westchester-Playa Democratic Club meeting
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 11:12 PMThe Westchester-Playa Democratic Club will host a discussion later this month about restoration planning for the state-owned Ballona Wetlands ecological reserve, which includes the private Annenberg Foundation's proposal to build a visitors center housing domestic animals on the site.
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- Carson hires top administrator lacking in management experience
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 10:33 PMA civil engineer who reviewed building plans and code requirements as a contract worker for the city of Gardena has been named Carson's top city administrator, despite an apparent lack of experience in such a high level of administration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police want to speak to resident of Manhattan Beach apartment where shots were fired
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 08:35 PMDetectives said Monday they won't know what happened inside a Manhattan Beach apartment that was the scene of daylong SWAT team standoff over the weekend until the missing resident contacts them.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti seeks bilingual volunteers for crisis response team
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 07:31 PMLos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is seeking volunteers -- especially bilingual residents who are fluent in Spanish, Korean, Armenian, Farsi, Chinese or Tagalog -- to join his crisis response team.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man who jumped off Long Beach's Belmont Pier on life support
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 09:57 AMLONG BEACH - A man was on life support at a Long Beach hospital today after jumping off the Belmont Pier into the ocean wearing a backpack filled with sand, police said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Contested car wash proposal heads to Redondo Beach City Council
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 12:02 AMMore than a year has passed since Chris McKenna agreed to tear down the old Redondo Car Wash, a crumbling Torrance Boulevard eyesore that had been left vacant for at least a decade.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NASA, aerospace industry depend on scale models to get message across
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 11:31 PMIn the lobbies at Southern California's aerospace companies, satellite, space telescope and rocket scale models boast of the region's technological ingenuity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - LAUSD giving principals, teachers 'live shooter' training
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 08:06 PMPrompted by last year's massacre in Newtown, Conn., Los Angeles Unified is instructing administrators and faculty in how to keep students safe if there's a gunman on campus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Los Angeles, Orange County gas prices fall to lowest amount since May 7
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 03:39 PMLOS ANGELES - The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped today to its lowest amount since May 7, falling 1.1 cents to $3.936.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Belly - new customer loyalty program - reaches Los Angeles
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 10:41 PMLos Angeles is about to get a belly full of a new customer loyalty program. But do we have the appetite for it?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Volunteers rally around science center in San Pedro
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 11:18 PMWhen school starts Monday in the city of Los Angeles, the clock starts ticking for San Pedro's long beleaguered science center.
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