La Cienega Boulevard

Jul 19 2012

Some groups fret over likelihood of a major disaster

Fracking. It is a non-euphonius term that rhymes with cracking and whose sound connotes all kinds of unpleasant thoughts. But to certain residents of the Los Angeles area it is much more than just a unpleasant sound; it’s an oil-company practice that many in the nation and around the world consider both highly destructive and life-threatening, so much so that the Los Angeles City Council has passed a resolution against it, Culver City has called for a statewide ban against it, and at least one Assembly bill has been proposed limiting the practice. But it continues.

May 21 2012

No motive given for the shooting

A man was booked into jail this Monday morning, May 21, on suspicion of fatally shooting an MTA bus driver in West Hollywood.
  
Anthony Craig Chambers, 41, of Los Angeles was arrested at the scene of Sunday morning's shooting and booked on suspicion of murder at the West Hollywood Sheriff's Station, where he was being held in lieu of $1 million bail, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
  

Jul 29 2011

Friday and Saturday

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Los Angeles Police Department officers will staff two sobriety/driver’s license checkpoints this weekend, beginning tonight, in an ongoing effort to combat drunken driving.

From 8 p.m. until 2 a.m. Saturday, officers will run a checkpoint at La Cienega Boulevard between Rosewood and Oakwood avenues near West Hollywood.

And from 8 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday, there will be a checkpoint on Manchester Avenue between Main Street and Broadway in South Los Angeles.

Nov 5 2010

Busiest route LAX

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - For the third weekend in a row, the busiest route from Los Angeles International Airport to surrounding freeways will be closed—but this time, it's for a car commercial taping.

The ramp linking the Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel to the Glenn Anderson (105) Freeway will be closed from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, under a permit issued to a production company by Caltrans.

Also closed will be eastbound 105 onramps from Imperial Highway at Sepulveda, and the onramp from Parkview Drive in El Segundo.

Oct 30 2010

Sunday, October 31

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A major ramp leading out of Los Angeles International Airport was closed again during today's rainstorm, but engineers hope to install a temporary fix to the treacherous curves Sunday.

Airport officials and Caltrans have been forced to barricade the major airport exit, from the Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel to the eastbound Glenn Anderson (105) Freeway, whenever the pavement got wet because cars would spin out on two closely-spaced, tight turns.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.