- As I’m sure you already know, Los Angeles had a doozy of an earthquake yesterday, that registered on the Richter scale at 5.4, but caused minor damage. That’s because L.A was prepared this time. Strict building codes, in response to the 1994 Northridge quake ensured that most of the region’s infrastructure rolled with the magnitude punch, reports the L.A Times. Though little physical damage was done, phone and internet service were disrupted. Verizon and AT&T lost some service and even the L.A Times’ own website was briefly unavailable when traffic sucked the life out of its servers immediately after the earthquake hit.
- The Board of Airport Commissioners have voted to increase the landing fee for commercial passenger planes at LAX from $3.35 per 1,000 pounds of landed weight to $3.85. The fees were raised to offset potential revenue losses due to the shaky economy, reports the Los Angeles Times. Flights are expected to decline by almost 17 percent in November.
- David Crawford, a Los Angeles adult film director who was accused earlier this month of staging a marriage to a Hungarian woman, has pleaded not guilty in the case. The woman, Agnes Jeges was a prostitute who worked at a brothel in Sherman Oaks that recruited Hungarian women. She has also pleaded not guilty. Court case aside, the most important question we should be asking here is: there is a brothel in Sherman Oaks?! Como what?! I bet you didn’t see that one coming.
- Braise yourselves Los Angeles, you’re about to get the nations first commercial facility to convert biowaste into ethanol. BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, a cellulosic ethanol production technology company were approved by the Los Angeles County Planning Commission to build the facility on 10 undeveloped acres near Lancaster, Calif. Construction will being in late 2009 and will allowed the profitable conversion of cellulosic waste into as much as 3.2 million gallons of cellulosic. ethanol per year, which is a renewable and economical alternative to gasoline and other types of ethanol.
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1 Lindsey // Jul 30, 2008 at 2:45 pm
And people think the Valley has no excitement. I mean, does anyone not KNOW where Chatsworth is?
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