Metro to turn down the classical music

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LA Metro said it turned down the volume of the classical music playing at the Westlake/MacArthur Park Station in response to heated criticism from riders who worried that the music could cause hearing damage. The classical music is part of a pilot program to discourage people from loitering in an effort to address rising crime on the transit lines.

Divya Prakash and Payton Seda / LAist

Workers returned to Southern California ports Friday night, ending a 24-hour shutdown at the ports of LA and Long Beach — a “concerted action to withhold labor,” as the shippers group described. The union representing West Coast dockworkers is several months into negotiating a new contract that is focused on updating wages and discussing the role of automation in the industry.

Marisa Gerber and Ronald D. White / Los Angeles Times

The union that represents LA school workers officially agreed to a new contract with the LA Unified School District that will give workers a 30% salary increase, a $1,000 bonus for those who worked during the Covid-19 pandemic, expanded health care benefits and increased hours for special education assistants.

Dakin Andone and Rebekah Riess / CNN

Since the pandemic began, bouncers in the San Francisco Bay Area have been irked by a nagging problem: Young people are trying to get into bars with photos — not hard copies — of their IDs. Or they flash a Global Entry ID. Or an office ID card. One club owner postulated that people who came of age during the pandemic may never have been taught how bars work.

Esther Mobley / San Francisco Chronicle

A puppy thrown out the window of a pickup truck during an LA high-speed police chase emerged unscathed. Police were chasing a suspect wanted in connection to an attempted murder and carjacking when someone in the vehicle placed the eight-week-old mixed breed in a designer bag and threw it onto the road. The puppy is now in the care of South LA Animal Services.

Maya Yang / The Guardian

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