- Speeding CHP officer crashes into family’s SUV, injuring the mother inside badly on Sunday night. The officer’s actions are under investigation; he was doing 90mph on the 5 near Lyons when he collided with the SUV DAILY NEWS
- The 20 something driver who ran a red light at Decoro & Hillsborough Parkway on Friday slamming into a minivan and injuring a mother and her son, has died. Authorities haven’t released his name and aren’t sure if alcohol played a part in the crash. SIGNAL, LA TIMES
- The long legal saga of the Whittaker Bermite property (the donut hole in the center of the city) has another chapter: the City and a real estate company that owned the land have settled a lawsuit that could lead to the City eventually having 1,000 acres of “clean prime real estate” SIGNAL
- Micheal Dean Stephens, the murderer of Josh Pipho, will be sentenced this week the Signal says
- Food truck events are becoming very common in the SCV. COC’s “Street Festival” featured four of them SIGNAL
- Moving obituary of Sgt. Ian D. Gelig, the Stevenson Ranch soldier who died in Afghanistan back in March. LA TIMES
- Not a Ferry Fan’s clips from last week’s Council meeting. Unsurprisingly the topic is the library takeover YOU TUBE
- Retailers are feeling encouraged after Black Friday and a solid weekend of shopping, but spending at stores isn’t quite what it was in the mid 2000s AP. Meanwhile, Westfield rolls out a phone App with parking lot information, mall layout and store directories. DAILY NEWS
- And of course today is Cyber Monday in case you missed out on the brick ‘n mortar deals SIGNAL
- Buck McKeon worried that if spending on the military isn’t increased, America may fight wars with a “bow and arrow.” But he hopes not. BLOOMBERG
- Meanwhile, McKeon is stuck between a rock and a hard place as the Republicans try to eliminate earmarks from the federal budget. Some $3 billion in earmarks were spent in Southern California this year on defense projects LA TIMES
- Autism blog mentions SCV’s autistic children and the Signal in a post about autism and the media “The simple fact that children like this weren’t around 25 years ago should have everyone demanding to know why.” BLOG
- Outrage over the TSA’s new security policies predictably blew up the Signal LTE section last week. Like this one. The New York Times takes a look at the spectacle and finds there wasn’t actually much that changed NYT
- John Boston’s Time Ranger a real gem this week. Find out how some enterprising SCVers back in the 50s set up their own television transmitter, read about a grisly 1972 triple murder, and what’s the SCV got to do with the old tv show Dallas? JOHN BOSTON
- Congrats to Dave Bossert for five years of the West Ranch Beacon. He toots his own horn quite a bit in this celebratory post but reveals that Count Sauguslavsky, the greatest SCV columnist of all time, will soon write for the Beacon. WRB
- Tim Myers mounrs over what was once one of the top high school football leagues in the state: Foothill. 2003 is the turning point according to Myers SIGNAL
- The good people behind the Santa Clarita homeless shelter get a shout out from the Signal as cold weather bears down on the SCV SIGNAL
Oh noes! Leslie Nielsen has died. RIP
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