Friday’s Headlines
LAX rental car center, Traci Park, Merced Greenway, Metro operations, car-nage and more
By
Joe Linton
and
Damien Newton
10:53 AM PDT on March 13, 2026
- LAX Opens Rental Car Center (Daily News, Westside Current)
- Councilmember Traci Park’s Olympic Parking Lot (Torched)
- LEJ_explains Video Explores El Monte Merced Greenway
- For Women’s History Month, Metro Profiles Daniela Amores Operations Engineering (The Source)
- Deadly Hit and Run Driver Set to Confess in Long Beach (LB Post)
- Carnage: Motorcyclist Killed In Beverly Hills Crash (Canyon News)
- Smog President Sues CA Over Emissions Rules (NYT, ABC7)
- Controller Says LA $200 Million Over Budget (Daily News)
- Global Warming: SoCal Braces for Record-Breaking Heats (LAT)
- Gas Prices Causing Drivers To Consider Going Electric (SMDP)
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