- Sound the klaxon! Two inmates at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic escaped early this morning. Deputies think the pair -Jose Aldana & Winder Barrios- planned the escape and “slipped out of the facility around 1:05 am Wednesday.” The pair were being held for armed robbery. The North County facility is the maximum security part of Pitchess. 80 Deputies in patrol cars and helicopters are on the hunt KTLA, KHTS
- Dave Bossert has posted a “What to do in the event of an Inmate Escape from Pitchess.” WRB
- No leads and no suspects in violent Newhall shooting. Cops say the Sunday night shooting that injured two men does not appear to be gang related. I thought this was a drive-by, why are they now saying the victims were shot at “point blank” range? SIGNAL
- All three incumbents were sworn in at last night’s council meeting. And what was supposed to be an uneventful meeting turned strange and sad as a woman told the Council how she found her son dead of a heroin overdose on her driveway in Santa Clarita. I HEART asks the logical question: Does SCV have a heroin problem? SIGNAL, KHTS, I HEART SCV
- Calls to boycott Arizona grow LA TIMES
- Tweet of the Day: “The Mexican Government has just issued a Travel Advisory recommending Mexicans not to travel to Arizona on business or pleasure,” - Arturo Sarukhan, Mexican Ambassador to the US (ht: Andrew Sullivan)
- Office vacancies at 29%, a record reports the SIGNAL. And it could rise to 33% by the end of the year.
- OLPH Church held a meeting with parishoners on Monday that supposedly eased their minds about the brewing controversy over the OLPH school’s new priest. But they kicked the Signal out of the meeting, and refused to answer questions from the Signal later. Talk about a transparency problem. SIGNAL
- Very high winds today coming in off the Pacific CBS 2, EXAMINER
- Oh My God we are so screwed. The State has released a new map containing 50 new earthquake faults. And our area is all purple and green and red and stuff. No really. Check it out. QUAKE.CA.GOV, LA TIMES
- Actor Jason Alexander hit a teenage bicyclist on his way to school yesterday in Mid Los Angeles. The boy is in the hospital. Alexander -George Costanza on Seinfeld- stayed at the scene of the accident LA TIMES
- Only a few days left to get your Santa Clarita Valley Dodger Day tickets CITY BRIEFS
- Did anyone see this? The disgraced and quite possibly fraudulent Daniel Henriquez attempted to convince Signal readers of his military and educational bona fides a few weeks ago. Good stuff if you have nothing to do (He is AVTaxman) SIGNAL
- This fountain blows the Bellagio’s out of the water YOU TUBE
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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