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LOS ANGELES, CA – A tour bus bound for a casino skidded and overturned onto its side on a freeway outside Los Angeles on Thursday, injuring about 50 people who were thrown around inside the vehicle, a LOS ANGELES, CA – A tour bus bound for a casino skidded and overturned onto its side on a freeway outside Los Angeles on Thursday, injuring about 50 people who were thrown around inside the vehicle, authorities said. According to Reuters, Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena received the other three most seriously injured patients – an 86-year-old man with rib fractures and two women i...

Planning for Congestion It’s been nearly 20 years since former Gov. Gray Davis stood in suburban eastern Los Angeles County at the opening ceremony for a six-mile stretch of the Foothill Freeway [1], where he declared that the state no longer would build new freeways. “Mr. Davis used today’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on a broiling, smoggy afternoon to underscore this fundamental shift, saying that the primacy of the automobile in transportation planning was over,” the  New York Times reported [2]. “While the state will be spending much more money on transportation in coming years, ...

Updated 40 mins ago NBC Universal, Inc. A man was taken into custody after leading police on a pursuit in a stolen car in Sylmar Monday night. Police began pursuing the car on the westbound Foothill (210) Freeway in the San Fernando Valley after discovering it was stolen. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get the latest breaking news and local stories. The man driving the car eventually exited the Foothill Freeway in Sylmar and led police on a pursuit on surface streets. The car briefly slowed, and two female passengers got out and ran away. T.I. 3 hours ago

As ‘he begged for mercy,’ Rodney King was beaten by police 30 years ago Updated Mar 03, 2021; Facebook Share On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was driving on the Foothill Freeway in California with two friends after they had watched a basketball game and had been drinking. King was speeding. Police officers tried to pull him over. A chase ensued, sometimes reaching as much as 117 mph. As the pursuit continued, other officers joined. Eventually King was cornered. He and his passengers were ordered out of the vehicle. The passengers got out and did as they were told but were kicked and threate...

Print How close Los Angeles came to what would have been — many times over— the deadliest disaster in U.S. history remains a matter of historical conjecture. When the Sylmar earthquake rumbled through Los Angeles 50 years ago, on Feb. 9, 1971, the top of the earthen Lower Van Norman Dam melted into the reservoir. No one knows exactly what kept the dam near Granada Hills from collapsing. Was it the number of feet of earthen wall that remained? Was it the duration of the quake, since a few more seconds might have shaken loose the rest of the dam face, unleashing a torrent on tens of thousan...