Hit-and-Run
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New CA Law Requires Temporary Plates for Newly Purchased Cars
Via Ted Rogers at Biking in L.A. comes news that the State of California will be joining dozens of other states in requiring all new cars to have temporary 90-day license plates. The goal of the law, A.B. 516, is to make it easier to identify drivers breaking the law, be they toll-lane scofflaws or hit-and-run murderers.
July 26, 2016
Hit-and-Run Claims Life of Beloved Nun. We Must Do Better, Los Angeles.
On Sunday, Raquel Diaz, a sister with the Los Angeles Archdiocese, succumbed to her injuries. She was seventy years old.
December 28, 2015
Another Murder by Car, Another Slap on the Wrist
Three years ago, Spencer Freeman Smith was living in San Ramon and working in San Francisco as a labor attorney. After a night of drinking with a paralegal, he got in his car, drove towards his home, and ran over Bo Hu, a 57-year-old financial advisor visiting from China, on Dougherty Road in Dublin. Hu was either riding or walking his bike.
October 22, 2015