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Morning, Trojan.

Seven stories for today, Oct. 6

📍 On campus

  1. Scammers are finagling money out of students for football tickets they never receive. It’s not uncommon for students who buy season tickets to resell seats for cheaper than the individual game price — but the fraudsters are causing would-be buyers to lose faith in the secondhand market. (Salome Nebiyu, Shane Dimapanat and Carson Dorais / Annenberg Media)

  1. The Undergraduate Student Government’s LAX shuttle will run on Oct. 12 and 13 with a single pickup location on McClintock Ave. Annenberg Media reports on the shuttle program’s specifics. (Jonathan Martin / Annenberg Media)

🌴 In L.A.

  1. A new electric-powered streetcar will connect Santa Ana and Garden Grove. Supporters argue that the project will only be a boon for public transit, but some can’t help but worry that it’ll be a fast-track to gentrification. (Gabriel San Román and Hannah Fry / Los Angeles Times)

  1. The new K Line is slated to open on Friday, and accordingly, Metro will host a celebration at Leimert Park Plaza with food, live entertainment and giveaways. The new line connects the neighborhoods of West Adams, Crenshaw, Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, Hyde Park and Westchester, along with the city of Inglewood — but won’t connect to LAX for now. (Ryan Fonseca / LAist)

🌅 California

  1. A state-appointed panel of experts rejected a proposal to move desalinated seawater across the desert to replenish the Salton Sea, dealing a blow to the project’s advocates. Instead, the panel recommended paying farmers to voluntarily leave farmland dry and contribute water to the lake. (Ian James / Los Angeles Times)

  1. Four members of a family were found dead in a rural Central Valley field two days after they were kidnapped. Surveillance footage showed an armed man kidnapping a baby, her parents and her uncle on Monday from the family’s trucking business in Merced. (Amanda Holpuch, Michael Levenson and Eduardo Medina / The New York Times)

  1. Some 23 million taxpaying California residents are eligible for the state’s Middle Class Tax Refund program that sends its first round of payments on Friday. The payments, which are technically tax refunds, are meant “to help address rising costs.” (ABC7)

⭐️ A bonus profile

  • Spudnuts Donuts, open 24 hours on 30th Street and Figueroa, is “the one place that you go late at night.” Read Annenberg Media’s profile on the USC staple. (Ben Cohen and AC Shick / Annenberg Media)

📰 Editor’s note

  • Wow. Annenberg Media knocked it out of the park yesterday. Shoutout to Salome Nebiyu, Shane Dimapanat, Carson Dorais, Ben Cohen, AC Shick, Jonathan Martin, Jaydelle Herbert and Ian Roddy for some of the best reporting I’ve ever read in USC campus media. I wish I had the space to link to all their stories.

  • I haven’t yet gotten the chance to meet any of those writers yet… but if you happen to know one of them, please pass on my compliments. (And to the Wednesday editors as well.)

🚨 In case you missed it

  • Authorities have connected an additional murder of an Oakland man to a possible Stockton serial killer, as well as one non-fatal shooting of a Stockton woman. The killer has now been connected to six slayings. (Staff report / The Guardian)

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Morning, Trojan is curated and edited by Tomoki Chien. Chris Bibona writes The Sports Corner. Questions, concerns or feedback? You can reach me by replying to this email.

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