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North Long Beach residents make a stink over porta-potty company – NBC Los Angeles
On any given day the last four years, neighbors off Cherry Avenue and East 56th Street in North Long Beach said you can’t escape the smell of sewage in their neighborhood.
“It smells like a toilet bowl,” said Lydia Santana, who walks by a porta-potty rental company whose business is sewage. “The smell is horrible.”
United Rental moved into the Cherry Avenue location in 2020, according to the manager, who refused to comment about neighbors’ complaints.
“With this hot weather, you can really smell it,” said Robert Salinas, who has lived in their neighborhood for more than 30 years. “(It smells) like poop, and sometimes it’s really overbearing.”
“It smells like a cat or something like that died,” said Ray Lou, who gets the brunt of the odor — his house is directly across the street from the company. “We just keep in the house.“
“It’s very bad, it smells like somebody is dead, real nasty,” said Lamont Williams, who smells it as he drops off recyclables at the plant next door. “It smells bad and horrible, like death… Nobody does nothing about it.”
Neighbors said they’ve reached out to the city for help, but to no avail.
NBCLA reached out to Councilman Al Austin’s office for comment, but did not hear back early Monday afternoon.
One neighbor reached out the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), who told them the porta-potty company could be cited if more than six complaints were filed against them.
So far, there is officially only one complaint filed.
“People don’t want to live like that. People don’t want to smell that smell especially if you’re a resident,” said Salinas.
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Ultrasound machine found abandoned in Whittier – NBC Los Angeles
A pair of puzzled men in Whittier were surprised and amused when they made a $10,000 discovery in the form of an ultrasound machine abandoned on the street.
Troy Silva was inside his restaurant on Whittier Boulevard on Friday when he got a text from his friend, Jason Barrio. The message urged him to go outside and see what his pal found.
“It was funny,” he said. “I mean, we were all laughing.”
Standing next to Barrio was a machine wrapped in plastic. After unpacking it, the men found it was a Hewlett-Packard ultrasound machine.
Confused but amused nonetheless, the two called the police to file a report. That was when they learned more information about the wayward machine.
“While we’re doing this, a van pulls up with two guys in it,” Silva said. “He calls over to me … he says a homeless guy abandoned it right there. He was pushing it down the boulevard and he left it there.”
The Whittier Police Department said it checked with two local hospitals, but neither was missing the machine. An investigator later learned the machine belongs to a local doctor who had recently moved his practice from the area to another location.
That doctor said he thought he’d taken all of his equipment but when he saw an image of the found machine, he realized the movers somehow missed it.
Officers said they plan to reunite the item with its rightful owner on Tuesday.
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Bill that would have allowed undocumented students to work on campus vetoed – NBC Los Angeles
Citing concerns about a potential legal fallout, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed undocumented college students to work on campuses in California.
AB 2586 would have prohibited California colleges and universities from disqualifying students from being hired on campus if they were unable to provide proof of federal work authorization. The governor said his reason for the veto was federal funding potentially being at risk for employees and students since the federal law forbids employers from hiring undocumented individuals.
“I have to now struggle to figure out if I can even afford tuition for the next semester,” said Jeffrey Umana Munoz, a UCLA graduate who is studying for his master’s at Cal State LA. “I don’t know if I’m going to be able to finish this master’s program.”
Munoz, who was brought to the US at the age of 2 from El Salvador, is part of a movement called Opportunity for All. The organization rallied across the UC and state college system to allow undocumented students to work.
Assemblymember David Alvarez, who authored the bill, said he found the veto a “profound disappointment” and said his efforts would not stop.
“Students who are legally allowed to study at California’s public colleges and universities should also be allowed to work to pay for their own education,” his statement read. “The students who worked together to bring this bill to the Legislature will continue to fight for it, and I will stand with them, along with the Latino Caucus.”
In the meantime, Opportunity for All will continue championing for its cause and said it plans to attend the UC Regents meeting in January to push for a similar bill.
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Foothill Transit bus fatally strikes man in City of Industry – NBC Los Angeles
An investigation is underway after a bus struck and killed an elderly man in the City of Industry Monday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash was reported around 6:30 p.m. near the intersection of Azusa Avenue and Pepper Brook. CHP said a Foothill Transit bus on its way to La Habra was traveling northbound on Azusa when it hit a pedestrian.
An investigation is underway after a bus fatally struck a pedestrian in Hacienda Heights. Eliana Moreno reports for the NBC4 News at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.
It’s unclear if the man was on a marked crosswalk or in the street.
A total of nine people, including the driver, were aboard the bus at the time of the crash. No one aboard the bus was injured.
Authorities did not release the name of the pedestrian who died.
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