A 47-year-old man was ordered to serve 180 days in jail for peeping into several Westwood apartments in recent months. Christopher Mendicino pleaded no contest Tuesday to two charges of peeping and one charge of loitering, said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office, in an email statement. Mateljan said Mendicino’s charges […]
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Water main break may have resulted from outdated engineering practices
City officials cited outdated engineering practices as the cause of last week’s water main burst in several statements this week. There was an extensive amount of corrosion both inside and outside of the pipes that burst on July 29 near UCLA, said Jim McDaniel, senior assistant general manager for the Los Angeles Department of Water […]
Positions still up for grabs at start of UCLA football training camp
The words seemed to slip out naturally – confidently – from Brett Hundley’s mouth on national television. “Yes, you will see us in the first-ever College Football Playoff,” he said on ESPN’s College Football Live Friday morning, answering one of the hosts’ questions about whether the Bruins would make the newly implemented four-team playoff. A […]
Westwood apartment peeping suspect arrested by university police
Police arrested a man wanted for peeping and prowling several times around UCLA student apartments in Westwood. University police officers arrested the man Friday morning after he asked an acquaintance to store his belongings and buy him an Amtrak ticket to Santa Barbara under a false name. Christopher Mendicino, 47, is a suspect in about […]
UCLA student grabbed by man with knife in sculpture garden
A man with a knife grabbed a UCLA student in the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden Wednesday evening, university police said. The student was jogging on the northeast side of the sculpture garden, south of Macgowan Hall, about 8:30 p.m. when the man, who was holding a knife in his right hand, grabbed her from […]
Six people exposed to carbon monoxide during flood cleanup
This post was updated on July 30 at 8:26 p.m. Six adult male workers at UCLA were exposed to carbon monoxide on Wednesday evening during the cleanup of Tuesday’s flood, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The exposure came from a generator, said LAFD spokeswoman Katherine Main. She said the command post monitoring the situation is near […]
City councilmembers urge LADWP to report cause of water main break
This post was updated at 8:08 p.m. Two Los Angeles city councilmembers are demanding that the L.A. Department of Water and Power report the cause of the water main break that flooded campus Tuesday and possible infrastructure problems that led to the break, in a motion released Wednesday evening. The motion was introduced by Councilmembers […]