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March 19, 2023 at 12:58 pm

LA riders bail on Metro trains amid ‘horror’ of deadly drug overdoses, crime VIEW

Commuters have abandoned large swaths of the Metro train system, where drug use is rampant and 22 people have died on trains this year, from...

Nation & World

January 25, 2022 at 7:41 pm

Guns stolen from rail cars spark LAPD concern

LOS ANGELES — Guns are among the items that have been stolen from cargo containers on railroad tracks in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles Police Chief...

Nation & World

January 21, 2022 at 3:53 pm

How idle trains in LA became a target for thieves

Amid the supply chain congestion at local ports and elsewhere, trains filled with valuable goods sometimes sit idle, leaving them vulnerable to thieves in urban...

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Shredded boxes and packages and debris are strewn along at a section of the Union Pacific train tracks in downtown Los Angeles Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. Thieves have been raiding cargo containers aboard trains nearing downtown Los Angeles for months, leaving the tracks blanketed with discarded packages. The sea of debris left behind included items that the thieves apparently didn’t think were valuable enough to take, CBSLA reported Thursday. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) NYOTK NYOTK

January 16, 2022 at 4:00 pm

‘It’s ugly out there’: Rail thefts leave LA tracks littered with pilfered packages

LOS ANGELES — The scene was a stretch of railroad tracks in Lincoln Heights on Saturday: A blizzard of torn plastic wrappers, cardboard boxes and...

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January 7, 2017 at 8:00 am

Legacy retailers Sears, J.C. Penney take different paths to an uncertain future

Regardless of how they fare, however, some analysts see the fates of the two consumer stalwarts as tied, two legacy companies choosing divergent paths to...