Staff and faculty can now exchange a parking permit for a free $400 coupon for a bicycle as a part of a new UCLA Transportation program. UCLA Transportation officials launched the Earn-a-Bike program May 16, allowing staff and faculty who have a quarterly parking permit to exchange the coupon for a hybrid or mountain bicycle […]
Category Archives: Westwood
UCLA employee files lawsuit alleging UCPD racially profiled him
This post was updated May 26 at 3:21 p.m. A UCLA employee accused university police of racially profiling him during a 2014 arrest in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Claudius Gaines, a UCLA Facilities Management worker, alleged a UCPD officer assaulted and falsely imprisoned him during a traffic stop in the North Village in 2014 because […]
Car crash on Wilshire Boulevard kills one, hospitalizes two
One person died and two were injured in a car crash Tuesday morning on Wilshire Boulevard. LAPD officer Robert Kim said a car headed west on Wilshire Boulevard at 1:50 a.m. collided with a parked vehicle. He added the driver and a passenger were hospitalized, and another died at the scene. A Los Angeles Fire […]
Man sentenced to nine years in prison for multiple Westwood robberies
A man who has robbed six people in Westwood Village since September was sentenced Monday to nine years and four months in state prison. Dennis Toliver pleaded no contest to two counts of first degree robbery and robbery charges from previous arrest at a preliminary hearing at the Airport Courthouse Monday morning. In addition, a […]
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to put a lid on Gayley location
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Gayley Avenue, one of Westwood Village’s many coffee shops, will close in June. Danny Hernandez, the store’s general manager, said the shop will close because of financial difficulties. He added store managers have not chosen an exact date, but they are planning to close the store the week […]
Metro Expo extension opens, connects downtown LA to Santa Monica
The Metro Expo Line extension opens Friday, allowing passengers to take the public rail to Santa Monica for the first time since the 1950s. The 15-mile line connects downtown to Santa Monica with a 45-minute ride. It includes a stop on Westwood Boulevard just south of Pico Boulevard. The first phase of the Expo Line, […]
Student aims high with medical marijuana delivery business
Medical marijuana was the only drug that improved Christian Kramme’s stomach pain after spending two years in and out of hospitals. Kramme, a second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student, believed he had pancreatic cancer when he began experiencing severe stomach pain and a lack of appetite in 2012. His doctor recommended he use medical […]