Breaking News
California
Free bus and train rides on L.A. Metro are being offered through Sunday.
Police responded to a call in the 1600 block of North Vermont Avenue at 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 16, where a 56-year-old woman was found bleeding from a gunshot wound to the face.
All Metro bus and rail services will be free Tuesday starting from 4 a.m. through 3 a.m. Christmas Day. Micro rides and Metro bikes will also be available for free.
One person was dead after a gunman hijacked a Metro bus and led police on a low-speed chase that ended in downtown Los Angeles early Wednesday.
San Fernando Valley leaders say the mayor should replace former Councilmember Paul Krekorian, who just left Metro’s board, with another Valley resident.
After a bus driver was fatally stabbed, transit officials expedited plans to finish armoring the bulk of its 2,017 buses with protective tempered glass to shield drivers from passengers. It is the first transit agency in the nation to do so.
Police have arrested a man in his 70s in connection with a stabbing on a Metro bus in South Los Angeles, at the intersection of Western Avenue and 76th Street in Manchester Square.
Music
Metro Boomin’s lawyer denies ‘false accusations’ of rape and sexual assault against the hip-hop star. The allegations surfaced in a lawsuit filed this week.
More than 400,000 students across Los Angeles have enrolled in Metro’s GoPass Program, which offers unlimited free bus and train rides, the agency announced.
A train struck a pedestrian at the Hollywood/Highland Metro station Friday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The pedestrian suffered serious lower body injuries.