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- An update on the Chatsworth extension of the Orange Line, which will add four north-south mils to the busway.
- A fire erupted either at or next to Axe Restaurant on Abbot Kinney Venice today.
- The Echo Park Lake swap meet was broken up by police this weekend. L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti backed the enforcement: "Turning Echo Park into a marketplace forces kids to play in the street. A city like Los Angeles cannot afford to lose what little public green space we have," he said.
- Highway surfing -- that's skateboarding while hanging onto a moving vehicle -- left on Ojai teen dead Sunday evening.
- Congressmember Jane Harman's 91-year-old husband, Sidney, has purchased Newsweek. The South Bay rep promises not to meddle in reporting.
- With a limited capacity for flights at San Diego International Airport, there's a proposal to build a pedestrian bridge over the border linking to Tijuana's airport.
- A carjacking in Orange this morning left one woman in critical condition after the suspect -- he was later caught -- stabbed her in a parking lot.
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