One dead in Expo Park road rage incident
Tomo Chien
November 25, 2024
Good morning. It’s Monday, and I’m reading about where you can eat out for Thanksgiving in Los Angeles. Onto the five USC, LA, and California stories you need to know for today.
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A 16-year-old boy was killed in a possible road rage incident outside BMO Stadium on Friday. Cops said the boy and a group of his friends, all on bikes, got into an altercation with a car on Figueroa Street. The unidentified driver then followed the boy into the stadium parking lot before running him over.
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Conservative advocates are suing California community colleges — and they’re winning. In one instance of a litany of recent lawsuits, a student successfully sued her school after it allegedly stymied her efforts to distribute anti-communist and anti-abortion posters.
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California produces so much solar power that it’s often forced to offload it to other states. That means California residents, who pay roughly twice the national average for electricity, often wind up funding deep discounts for other states, banks, and hedge funds.
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Federal prosecutors accused Philips 66, an oil giant, of dumping 800,000 gallons of contaminated wastewater into LA County’s sewer system. A county treatment plant managed to filter out the nearly 100,000 pounds of oil and grease before it reached the ocean, a prosecutor said.
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A day before USC football beat UCLA, there was another rivalry showdown: the annual “Blood Bowl” between the Daily Trojan and Daily Bruin. A UCLA student described it as a chance to “come together.” Not USC. “We’re gonna beat the crap out of them,” said the Daily Trojan’s editor-in-chief before trouncing UCLA 4-1.
