Faced with potentially staggering wrongful death and injury claims in the wake of last month’s Chatsworth train crash, the Metrolink board today is scheduled to discuss a lawsuit the commuter rail line has filed against the company that provides its engineers.
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Metrolink should add a second engineer to its locomotives, install anti-collision technology and place an additional video camera in the cab of its engines to monitor train drivers, according to a motion supported by several Los Angeles city and county officials.
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Chatsworth residents are planning a candlelight vigil tonight to honor the victims, survivors and rescue workers of the Metrolink crash that killed 25 people and injured 135 one week ago.
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After two California train accidents this summer in which cellphone use may have been a factor, state regulators were preparing a ban on the wireless devices for rail crews in the weeks prior to the Metrolink crash in Chatsworth that killed 25 people.
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A new plan that makes greater use of helicopters to distribute the seriously injured to hospitals across Los Angeles County got high marks Saturday from trauma surgeons who treated victims in the worst mass casualty tragedy since the Northridge earthquake.Under the plan, victims were airlifted from the Chatsworth crash site to distant emergency rooms, such as at the Ronald Reagan
UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center near West Hollywood and County-USC Medical Center in Boyle
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Kyon Salaam and his mother were pulled to the street corner in their north Long Beach neighborhood by a violent crash.
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The opening line of Ivan Wilson’s last letter home to his mother had a poignant resonance at his memorial service.
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Two weeks after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pointedly reminded all city agencies that they must toe the line on new water conservation measures, workers in Griffith Park were following an old routine: using an industrial-grade hose and countless gallons of water to wash down a row of public tennis courts.
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Two weeks after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pointedly reminded all city agencies that they must toe the line on new water conservation measures, workers in Griffith Park were following an old routine: using an industrial-grade hose and countless gallons of water to wash down a row of public tennis courts.
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The rate of poverty in Los Angeles County fell last year, and median income levels rose slightly, even as the mortgage meltdown and rising fuel prices were beginning to slow the economy, according to new census data.
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