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Metro Board Chair Janice Hahn on Metro safety plans: 'We can't afford not to do this'
The deadly hijacking of a Los Angeles Metro bus has raised many concerns about public safety.The violent incident happened early Wednesday morning and is again putting a spotlight on the difficulties of safeguarding the transit system's buses and trains.Police said 51-year-old Lamont Campbell hijacked the Line 81 bus, which was traveling southbound and was carrying the driver and two passengers. After a chase, the bus came to a stop in downtown L.A. and the suspect surrendered.One of the passengers, identified as Anthony Rivera, was killed in the incident.Metro Board Chair and L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn spoke with Eyewitness News...
An Impossible Loss, Shared Among Sisters, and the Strange Way We Found Our Way Out of It
Products are independently selected by our editors. We may earn an affiliate commission from links. The three of us were doing burpees. It wasn’t pretty, but there we were: three sisters, jumping around in our makeshift dens turned gyms at the height of the pandemic. Every morning, we’d tune in to our favorite YouTube instructors, get on Facetime, and squat it out. Like many sisters, we had our ups and downs, our rivalries and resentments. Over the decades, we circled each other, vied for attention, gossiped about each other. We also sent birthday presents and celebrated holidays. We got under each other’s skins one minute and made each other pee our pants laughing the next. We drew close when our dad was dying, put aside petty grievances and made difficult decisions together. And again when our mom died. I always thought that is what counted most: That in the worst of times, we would count on each other. Only the worst was yet to come.
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