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Wednesday’s Headlines:

Shocking surveillance video footage shows a driver veering sharply onto the sidewalk and striking a 15-year-old riding home from school in South L.A. Screengrab from KTLA

  • Astonishing video of the hit-and-run at 21st and Nadeau shows driver appearing to deliberately jump onto sidewalk to hit teen riding his bike home from school (KTLA; Fox11)
  • Police seek help identifying minivan/driver in Huntington Beach hit-and-run that left cyclist injured on March 29 (Patch)
  • Man who deliberately plowed car into crowd of Westlake High students, killing teen, gets 85-year sentence (LAT)
  • Amazon’s robotaxi effort will begin testing in Los Angeles; no word yet on where the retrofitted Toyota Highlander test vehicles - which will have human drivers - will be deployed (LAT)
  • The streets strike back: Hacked pedestrian crossings play fake messages from Musk and Zuckerberg (BBC)
  • Amid questions about his resume, leader of new Los Angeles housing agency plans to depart (LAT)
  • L.A. will set aside $3 million to help owners of fire-damaged homes test their soil for lead (LAT); Pasadena issues public health advisory after Eaton Fire soil test (KCAL)
  • The Impact of the L.A. Fires Was Felt Far From the Burn Zone, Poll Shows (NYT)
  • Budget season is here: LAFD cites rubbish fires attributed to unhoused people in budget demands (ABC7)
  • Seeing more trees in Boyle Heights lately? Los Angeles recently planted 1,400 new street trees along multiple community corridors (Boyle Heights Beat)
  • CALÓ News explores South L.A.'s South Park
  • Little Free Library in Los Feliz: cute penguin edition (Eastsider)
  • California lawmakers quietly sideline bills in secretive suspense process (LAist)
  • Activists protest ICE access to LAPD data on immigrants (LAT; Univisión)
  • ‘We’ve always been here’: An oral history of L.A.’s Black indoor roller-skating scene (LAT)
  • It's back: Californians get 2nd chance at $2,000 voucher toward e-bike purchase – here's how to apply (KTVU)
  • Judge blocks Trump EPA from clawing back $14 billion in climate grants (WaPo)
  • Sure, why not: Navy crew sees UFO off SoCal coast (Fox11)

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