ENTERTAINMENT
July 8, 2010 | By Susan King, Los Angeles Times
Since iconoclastic actor-writer-producer-director-artist Dennis Hopper died in May after a long battle with prostate cancer, screenings of his 1969 masterwork, "Easy Rider," have been popping up around town. However, the Silent Movie Theatre is the first to schedule a tribute screening series to Hopper. "Dennis Hopper: Wasn't Born to Follow," kicks off Friday evening with "Easy Rider," which marked his directorial debut, and the 1971 documentary "The American Dreamer," which chronicles his post-"Easy Rider" success and the making of his next film, the ill-fated "The Last Movie."
WORLD
July 7, 2010 | By Amro Hassan, Los Angeles Times
A disgruntled bus driver stopped his vehicle and allegedly sprayed gunfire Tuesday on a construction crew he was transporting to a work site south of Cairo, killing six laborers and wounding 16, security officials said. A security official told the state-run Middle East News Agency that Mahmoud Taha Swellem was driving 22 people, including a finance manager and a department head, to a site near Giza when he suddenly took out an automatic weapon and opened fire. Swellem, who had worked for the company for 20 years, was arrested at the scene.
ENTERTAINMENT
June 19, 2009 | Chris Lee
The perplexing public-service announcements began turning up two weeks ago, splashed across bus-stop advertisements in America's 15 biggest cities, including Los Angeles. "Bus bench for humans only," the ads' banner copy proclaims, accompanied by a rough rendering of an outer space alien that has been crossed out, "Ghostbusters" style, with a strike-through circle. "Beware! Non-human secretions may corrode metal!"
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 6, 2009 | David Kelly
A former Border Patrol officer said Thursday that constant demands to meet monthly arrest quotas led agents in the Inland Empire to cruise streets, bus stops and even medical clinics looking for illegal immigrants.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 4, 2009 | Associated Press
Police arrested a man who they say fled after crashing his pickup truck into a bus stop, injuring two teenage girls, one severely. Police said 35-year-old Michael Tweedie of Rohnert Park was being held on suspicion of hit and run causing serious injury and driving under the influence in the Saturday crash. The girls were waiting at a bus stop with their father when the accident occurred. The father, Asefredo Pineda, said the truck hit a van before coming at them.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 7, 2008 | Ruben Vives
Investigators were searching for a gunman who shot and killed a man Saturday at a bus stop. The shooting occurred about 2 a.m. in the 2100 block of North Long Beach Boulevard, near East Pine Street, said Deputy Bill Brauberger of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Investigators said the assailant walked up to the man and began arguing with him. During the argument, the assailant pulled a gun and fired several shots at the man's chest. The victim was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.