CBS Los Angeles May 27, 2011 LOS ANGELES (CBS) — If you thought the patrol car in the 1987 action movie “Robocop” was high-tech, wait until you see what L.A.’s finest will be soon be driving. AOL’s Translogic caught a sneak peek of the new squad car of choice for the Los Angeles Police Department: [...]
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New LAPD Patrol Car To Sport Infrared Night Vision, License Plate Scanner
Posted: May 27, 2011 in Local OC/LA News0
Computer errors allow violent California prisoners to be released unsupervised
Posted: May 27, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsJack Dolan Los Angeles Times May 26, 2011 A computer system that lacked key information about inmates factored in the release of an estimated 450 prisoners with a “high risk of violence,” according to the California inspector general. Reporting from Sacramento — Computer errors prompted California prison officials to mistakenly release an estimated 450 inmates [...]
Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates
Posted: May 23, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsDavid G. Savage Los Angeles Times May 23, 2011 The 5-4 decision represents one of the largest prison release orders in U.S. history. The court majority says overcrowding has caused ‘suffering and death.’ In a sharp dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warns ‘terrible things are sure to happen.’ WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ordered California on [...]
Radiation Found In San Francisco, CA Tap Water — Rainwater Radiation 18,100% Above Drinking Water Limit
Posted: April 5, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsAlexander Higgins Alexanderhiggins.com April 4, 2011 Despite countless reassurances that no harmful levels of radiation from the Japan nuclear fallout would hit the US from the EPA, the University of Berkley in California is now reporting that rainwater in San Francisco water has now been detected at levels 18,100% above federal drinking water standards. Again, [...]
EUGENE W. FIELDS THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER April 1, 2011 SANTA ANA – Two 16-year-old boys have been shot in an alley near a grocery store in the 1000 block of South Standard Avenue, police said. Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said officers responded to a report of a fight in the parking lot of the Stater [...]
Los Angeles Times March 30, 2011 More than 1.7 million Los Angeles County residents struggled with hunger in 2009, more than in any other county in America, according to new research published by Feeding America, the country’s largest network of food banks. The study, called Map the Meal Gap, uses statistics collected by the U.S. [...]
Worried Californians Purchase Gas Masks, Chemical Suits
Posted: March 18, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsAssociated Press March 18, 2011 BREWER, Maine (AP) — The owner of a military supply company in Maine says he’s been inundated with orders from people in California buying gas masks and chemical suits. Maine Military Supply owner Frank Spizuoco says hundreds of gas masks are going out the door. He says people are also [...]
Feds deploy more radiation monitors in western US
Posted: March 16, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsAssociated Press March 16, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO – More radiation monitors are being deployed in the western United States and Pacific territories, as officials seek to mollify public concern over exposure from damaged nuclear plants in Japan, federal environmental regulators said. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency already monitors radiation throughout the area as part of [...]
KTLA News March 13, 2011 LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Officials said a Sikorsky helicopter crashed near East El Segundo Boulevard Sunday at around 9:32 a.m. Based on eyewitness accounts the helicopter reportedly erupted into a ball of flames when it crashed. Mike Fergus with the Federal Aviation Administration said the chopper was a Sikorsky helicopter [...]
Los Angeles Times March 8, 2011 There’s basically fish everywhere you go in the harbor,” said the harbor’s assistant manager, Jason McMullin, who added that there were reports that a red tide may have driven the fish into the harbor in massive numbers where they died because of limited oxygen. Redondo Beach public works officials [...]
