Slow the F*@# Down:
By all rights LAPD Officer Landon Dorris should have stayed around to get married and watch his kids grow up, to rise up the department ladder from Traffic, to enjoy a fine and raunchy retirement dinner and department pension three decades from now.
Instead, he was killed early Sunday morning when a car slammed into him during a fender-bender investigation on Riverside Drive at Hyperion, right around the corner from my house ...
I wasn't there, but I saw the LAPD chopper circling low overhead, its Nightsun bathing the intersection. The driver who hit Dorris was released, but the investigation's still open:
Officer Dorris was 31-years-old and had been with the LAPD for 3 years and 4 months. Prior to joining the LAPD, Officer Dorris served 6 years with the California Highway Patrol as a motorcycle officer. He is survived by his mother, two sisters, fiancé and two sons, ages 3 and one-and-a-half.
Is that Light a Train?
One thing missed in Sunday's L.A. Times redesign slag-a-thon was that the big weekend edition also carried a full-page, four-color message from publisher David Hiller promising to change the paper for the better by listening to its readers.
The analysis of the company by RealTimeTraders.com (which gives a pretty nice precis of the Times' wild history - concludes that Trib's purchase of Times-Mirror half a decade ago may have been "a strategic blunder:"
Threatened by the fast growing Internet, Tribune's stock has seen a slump, losing almost half its value since 2000. In the last two years alone the stock has fallen nearly 40%. Taking into account, the myriad problems confronting the company, Tribune's future however appears difficult to read.
Orange Line Returns to Old Form:
Just when we thought the Orange Line buses had actually turned into a safe route across the Valley, they've backslid into their nasty habit of crashing into stuff and hurting people:
A bus-vs-truck smashup in Valley Glen this afternoon left 17 people with mostly-minor injuries. No clear info yet on whether this was another red-light-runner who ran afoul of 60-foot-long tandem buses that don't exactly stop on a dime. Ever the Valley booster, the Daily News has the MTA gloating over plans to celebrate "the one-year anniversary of the line, which they are calling the system's safest and most successful."
Late on His Payments?
For those following the industrial-strenth Enzo Meme, Bo Stefan Eriksson went on trial Monday.
Prosecutors: He was "living it up" with the Enzo, a Benz McLaren SLR and other supercars in Malibu because the banks were after him in Europe.
Defense: He was just late on his payments.
Completists: You may now commence arguing about it in multiple revisions of Eriksson's Wikipedia page.
Posted by: Mack_Reed on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 11:48 PM
