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SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Association of Governments will partially close a section of Interstate 5 in La Jolla Tuesday evening to continue construction of a future trolley bridge. Work crews will close all northbound lanes of I-5 from state Route 52 to La Jolla Village Drive from 9:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. Wednesday morning to pour concrete for the future bridge. Motorists on northbound I-5 will be detoured to I-805 via state Route 52, according to SANDAG. SANDAG crews completed similar closures of southbound I-5 last week to pour concrete for the future trolley bridge, which will cross...

Poor abused refugees. See the video.

Interesting video taken from the front of a streetcar traveling down Market St. in San Francisco, just a few days before the earthquake.

This is a film taken from the dash of a San Francisco Trolley in 1909. The image flips just a few times but 99% of the video is good quality footage. It's interesting to see how the people on the street acted in those days. If there were any traffic or jaywalking laws at the time they clearly weren't enforced. If you can't stand modern drivers then take a look at what your grandparents and great grandparents had to deal with.

The 24-year-old Boston trolley driver who allegedly was texting his girlfriend when he slammed into another trolley last week was hired as a minority because of his transgender status, according to a state transportation official. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesman Joe Pesaturo told ABC News that there was "nothing unusual" in the hiring of Alden Quinn, and that he was picked out of a hiring lottery in 2004.

The Boston-area transit authority trolley driver who allegedly slammed into another train while text-messaging his girlfriend Friday was hired as a minority because of his transgendered "female-to-male" status and had three speeding tickets on his driving record in recent years, ABC News has learned.

His face bathed in sunlight, Stacy Hansen was all smiles Tuesday as he sat in a wheelchair on his newly paved driveway. After spending nearly two months in University Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to his lower back that left him paralyzed from the waist down, the 53-year-old was ecstatic to be home. "This is just overwhelming," said Hansen, who was among nine victims during a Feb. 12 shooting rampage at Trolley Square mall. Neighbors, firefighters, Salt Lake City police officers - including Chief Chris Burbank - and Ogden Officer Ken Hammond, who helped stop 18-year-old shooter Sulejman Talovic,...

LONDON (AFP) - A guide to the different types of abandoned shopping trolleys has won the Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year, following an online vote for industry publication The Bookseller. "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification" by Julian Montague secured 1,866 out of a total of more than 5,500 votes from a six-strong short-list. In second place was "Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan" with 1,365 votes; third was "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence" with 685 votes. In a statement announcing...

   "I could see the bodies. That's when you realize this has gone too far. It's for real. . . . I lost my temper."     Barrett "Bear" Dodds       "It was a devastating scene inside that mall. It is pretty hard when you are passing over and see the ones you can't help."     Dennis McKone        "I've seen death and dying but the thing that breaks my heart . . . is to see young people dying needlessly."     DeEtta Barta        "Every single shot sounded the same to us. It sounded like it got a little closer, but it...

Family in Bosnia describes Utah gunman as child of war and upheavalALMIR ARNAUT, Associated Press Writer February 15, 2007 12:23 PM TALOVICI, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Relatives of the Bosnian teen who shot and killed five people in a Salt Lake City mall said the boy's early life was marked by war and upheaval: The family fled Serb forces on foot when he was 4 and his grandfather was killed in the war. Sulejman Talovic was a toddler when fighting broke out in Bosnia in 1992. Serb troops laid siege to the hamlet of Talovici in northeastern Bosnia, bombing it for...

Video taken during attack at Salt Lake City mall picks up shouting of "Allah Akbar" 3 times.

The Salt Lake City Police Department has identified four of its officers who entered Trolley Square mall on Monday to confront the man who killed five people. Sgt. Andy Oblad, Sgt. Josh Scharman, Detective Dustin Marshal and Detective Brett Olsen will be honored by the Utah State Senate on Friday at 10 a.m. for bravery in the line of duty. The Senate also will honor Ogden Police Officer Kenneth Hammond, who was off-duty Monday when the shooting broke out. The five officers will be honored in the Utah House of Representatives at 10:30 a.m. and by Gov. Jon M. Huntsman...

SANDY — On the day that she died, Vanessa Quinn gave her husband Rich a long kiss goodbye.      "The one thing is, when you get up in the morning and you leave your loved one, for some reason, she gave me a really passionate kiss that morning," Rich Quinn said. "I don't know why, but I'm glad she did."       Quinn reflected Wednesday on his wife's horrific death Monday evening. He was meeting her to finally buy her a wedding band that night, when the shooting rampage began. "We got married four years ago. We didn't...

      Despite the fact the gunman in Monday's mass murder at Trolley Square shopping mall is dead, police remain hard at work trying to piece together more information about the crime and the motive behind it.       Law enforcement officials have not uncovered what prompted the deadly bloodbath 18-year-old Sulejman Talovic inflicted upon mall patrons that left six people dead, including Talovic, and four people in the hospital.       Salt Lake City police are continuing to investigate the case as if it were going to a prosecutor and eventually to trial.      ...

“Allahu Akbar” heard on Video Inside Trolley Square. To Whom It May Concern: I am writing and providing you with this information because I need help. A video was shot by Jaron Dansie, who usually shoots wedding videos. Dansie found himself trapped inside Trolley Square Mall when a gunman entered the mall and began shooting people. What is more important than the images is the audio portion of this video. Various persons on FreeRepublic Dot Com on the Internet have discovered what they strongly feel are the words “Allahu Akbar” repeated in two places on this video. If this is...

Utah House observes moment of silenceKiller identified as 18-year-old Solejman TalovicEmotionless killer gunned down victims randomlyTheir stories: Bystanders shocked by killingsEmployee, customer witnessed slayingOther recent multiple shootings in the Salt Lake area:Trolley Square: A brief historyPosted: 8:54 AM- The man who opened fire in Trolley Square mall Monday - slaughtering two men, two women and a 15-year-old girl before he was gunned down by police - was armed with a handgun and a shotgun, police said early Tuesday. He has been identified as an 18-year-old Salt Lake City resident. Police say they will release his name, along with those of...