Today’s Headlines
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7:41 AM PDT on July 26, 2013
- Metro Board: Blue Line Station in DTLB Renamed, New Options to Purchase Rail Cars, Locked Gates at Expo Phase I?, Garcetti Motion to Better Handle Complaints
- Buscaino Wants to Eliminate Fees for Sidewalk Repair (Daily News)
- Good Marks for Metro on Capitol Hill (KPCC, Move LA)
- Can We Have a Temporary Freeway Closing Without Getting Apocalyptical? (NBC4)
- Planning to Drive Drunk This Weekend? Don’t Do It Here (LAist)
- USC Takes Temporary Control of Coliseum, Pending 98 Year Lease (LAT)
- 78 Dead in High Speed Train Crash in Spain (Daily News)
- Two Hurt in I-91 Freeway Shooting, Shooter Still At Large (NBC 4)
- Well, I Guess There’s No More Filming at the Lincoln Memorial (NBC DC)
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