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- Trucker's Take on Tunnel: The Signal's Jim Holt spoke to several truckers in Castaic to get their views on what happened Friday night in the bypass tunnel on Interstate 5. "It's a blind curve when you enter the tunnel," he said. "And, you can't really see what's at the end of the tunnel," a trucker told Holt. Several drivers said they believe the speed limit through the tunnel was increased from 45 mph to 55 mph in the last year. Other issues brought up in the articles: passenger cars using truck lanes and inadequate truck driver training. Link
- Burglar scared off, baby threatened? A Saugus resident spotted a burglar trying to enter his home yesterday afternoon. "The person inside the house saw him trying to get in so he pulled out a gun," Bryski said. "The burglar saw the homeowner then took off," the Signal reports today. Also, a woman was arrested in the COC parking lot on Wednesday after texting messages "to her husband saying she was going to kill the Canyon Country couple's 3-month-old baby and then herself." The baby was fine and the woman was taken to a hospital for mental evaluation. Link
- More debate coverage: Jon Dell has a pair of articles on the Hart Board and Newhall Water board race debates, plus mp3 recordings from each one. NCWD debate, Hart Board
- Love Ride forsakes Castaic, embraces Pomona: Every fall for the last 14 years, the roar of thousands of motorcycles making their way from Los Angeles to Castaic Lake surprised and delighted SCV residents. But this year Love Riders won't be coming to Castaic; organizers have moved the entire event to the Fairplex at Pomona, citing that location's parking, amenities and size. Castaic businesses are "heartbroken." ""Most of the businesses and residents that I have talked to are disappointed it's leaving," a Chamber of Commerce rep told Jerry Berrios at the Daily News
- Housing scammer targets SFV/SCV: A man who attempted to con homeowners out of their titles in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys has been arrested. Police allege that James Anthony Rojas found homes that were about to be foreclosed on and used "bogus documents to get them to sign their deeds over to him and then used their homes to secure loans," according to the Daily News.
- New York to LA by Car in 31 hours: An outlaw racer decked out his BMW M5 with laser jammers, police scanners, two way radios, and more to complete a record-breaking drive from Manhattan to Santa Monica in just over 31 hours. He and his partner made only six stops and didn't get pulled over once by the fuzz in any of the states they crossed, and he's just released a book about the adventure. The New York Times has more
- Times Calls on Buck, CA GOP Members, to overturn President's S-CHIP Veto: "Setting up a socialized-medicine straw man for election season is apparently more important to the GOP than providing medical care for the nation's kids," the Los Angeles Times says today in an op/ed, urging California GOP members to overturn the president's veto on the popular children's health insurance plan. Link
- Valencia Woman: Do Something about coyotes! A woman in Valencia says a pack of coyotes "stalk our pets and children by walking back and forth just behind our fences." She says that a visit to the coyote's den reveals all the bones of pets the coyotes have eaten in the past, and mentions that her one year old Yorkshire Terrier and 40lb Cocker Spaniel both became coyote meals. She's upset that Fish and Game and her HOA won't do anything about the coyote problem, and hopes the wolf urine solution mentioned in last week's Signal might help.
- So Cal Transportation network only going to get worse: Transportation spending will probably never match the growth in population of the Los Angeles area, and even pie-in-the-sky proposals like building a tunnel from Highway 14 to Glendale won't help traffic for decades, the Long Beach Press Telegram says in an op/ed today. Link
- Tim Myers Column up at Beacon: The local print media is in a "death spiral," Tim Myers, the Valencia columnist recently dismissed from the Signal's Sunday op/ed pages says in his first blog post over at WestRanchBeacon.com. Myers complains that the Signal's new management treated him like a "crackpot letter to the editor writer," and says that Carl Goldman and KHTS have stepped up to provide "hard news coverage on important local issues." Over at TITTS, in a thread announcing the move to WRB, reader reaction was somewhat mixed, with one person saying, "It will be refreshing to hear opinions from some new blood and not the same 12 that have been circulating through the Signal over the years."
- Premako Lets Loose: The Signal's City Editor has been waking up before dawn to work out at a boot-camp program in Central Park, and he writes about the experience in the first of a series of A-2 columns. Refreshing to see a reporter write in a different style. Link
- Corpus no longer at Signal? Word is that Christi Anne Corpus, the Signal's primary crime writer for over a year, is out. During her time at the paper, Corpus covered several local crime stories, including the long trial of John Racz, who was convicted recently of killing his wife in 1991. In July of this year, Corpus broke the story of Erin O'Brien, a Canyon Country woman who fended off an attack in her apartment by a rapist. O'Brien was upset with local Sheriffs who didn't release an announcement or warning about the attempted rape, and went to the Signal with her story. The front page, above-the-fold Corpus article appeared on July 12, and the Sheriff's Department held a press conference and released a composite sketch of the suspected rapist the next day.
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