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Jonathan Bach Salem Statesman Journal Published 5:03 p.m. UTC Jul 28, 2018 An Oregon lawmaker is off to Los Angeles to wrangle support for a proposal calling on Congress to remove marijuana from a federal list of controlled substances. Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Portland, leaves Sunday to attend this year's legislative summit of the National Conference of State Legislatures. There she'll advocate for a proposed directive that would push the national group to lobby more aggressively to pull pot from scheduling under the Controlled Substances Act. The summit runs July 30 through Aug. 2. The offices of Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, and Senate Minority Leader Jackie Winters, R-Salem, have been involved crafting the proposal's language, said Stephen Watson, Burdick's legislative director. Neither Burdick nor Winters is attending the conference, but staff members are going to push for the proposal, he said. More: … [Read more...] about Oregon state senator seeks national support for legal pot in Los Angeles

The Upper Los Angeles River was a-roaring in Sunday's rainstorm. Above is the view downstream from Lindley Avenue in Reseda. Below is the way that stretch of the river looks most of the time. When the river is running high and fast, as it was Sunday, you can see why Army Corps of Engineers and the city widened and paved over what was a lazy stream most of the year. In March 1938 most of the San Fernando Valley and a good bit of the rest of Los Angeles flooded when storms hit back to back to back. The official response was to channelize the river in concrete most of the way to the ocean and to construct the Sepulveda Dam and a retention basin behind it. The Sepulveda Basin was closed to traffic on Sunday to allow water to back up behind the dam, as it is supposed to work. Even so, a mile or so downstream the river channel was speeding along at Hazeltine Avenue in Sherman Oaks. The photo is looking upstream under the Ventura Freeway. The video is the other way. While I was out getting … [Read more...] about The Mighty Los Angeles (River) was roaring on Sunday

LOS ANGELES — Police said they were trying to determine what prompted a man to shoot his grandmother and wound another woman before he crashed his car and ran into a busy supermarket, where he held dozens of people hostage in a tense standoff with scores of heavily armed officers outside.A woman was shot and killed when the gunman ran into the Trader Joe's supermarket in Los Angeles' Silver Lake section on Saturday, but no hostages were seriously hurt before the man handcuffed himself and surrendered about three hours later, police said. The man's grandmother was hospitalized in critical condition on Sunday.The man shot his grandmother seven times and wounded another woman, who he forced into a car, police said. Officers tracked the car, gave chase and exchanged gunfire with the man, who crashed into a pole outside the supermarket and then ran inside, they said.Frightened customers and workers dived for cover as police bullets fired at the man shattered the store's glass … [Read more...] about Trader Joe’s suspect in custody, woman killed in Los Angeles shootout