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Mount Lee, home to the Hollywood Sign at Sunset | Photo by Mark Luethi via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr
- It got a bit crazy in Hollywood last night when a club was closed due to overcrowding, prompting trouble on the streets and the LAPD to put on their riot gear.
- Labor Day: UCLA today released a study showing that union jobs in Los Angeles are disappearing faster than anywhere else in the country.
- A helicopter with a person dangling off a lowered rope ladder was seen flying around the Venice Beach area this weekend. Why? A viral marketing campaign for the TV show Nikita.
- Combined, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach handle around 40% of the United State's imported goods with many containers being transported via rail to near downtown L.A. in a half hour. The $2.3 billion Alameda Corridor has made that short trip possible, but with the recession in play, paying back debt has become increasingly difficult.
- A new Italian restaurant, Portofino Cucina Italiana, has opened in downtown's historic core.
- A LAPD motorcycle officer was hit by a car today in Van Nuys, suffering minor injuries.
- El Salvador's president, Mauricio Funes, is in Southern California today and Tuesday. Local Salvadorans hope to see an official El Salvador Community Corridor in L.A. soon.
- What do your top city officials in Ventura County get paid? Here's a nice data page showing all that information in graphs and charts.
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