🌱 Car Chase Ends Near 1st & Central + FREE Grand Park’s NYELA Party

Hello, Los Angeles! Today, we participate in National Card Playing Day! I'm here in your inbox to get you caught up on everything you need to know that's going on around town. We'll cover these stories and more...

• 🚓 Christmas Eve burglars on Club Drive
• ✈️ Canceled Southwest Airlines flights
• 🏳️‍🌈 Soft opening for OR Bar WeHo

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There was a lot of bad news in 2022. However, there was some great news, too. Which was your favorite good news story of 2022?

📰 Here are the top stories today in Los Angeles:

1. Monday night’s car chase came to an end near 1st Street and Central Avenue. Before that, the suspect, who was taken into custody, led law enforcement across two counties. Starting in Orange County, the suspect drove through “Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley” and then ended up “passing the 110 Freeway near Century Boulevard and speeding across the Sixth Street Bridge.” Initially, the driver had tried to avoid a traffic stop. (ABC)
2. Security camera footage shows two thieves driving off in “a dark red SUV” after burgling a home on Cheviot Hills’ Club Drive on Christmas Eve. The only one home at the time was the family’s dog. “The burglars used the side gates of the home, which were keycode-protected, and it was unclear if they hopped the fence or managed to figure out the passcode.” (KTLA)
3. Why did Southwest Airlines’ flight cancellations account for more than 2,900 out of 3,000 on Monday? It’d be easy to blame the bomb cyclone, but that won’t explain why all the airline’s flights are “unavailable through Saturday.” The U.S. Department of Transportation plans to get answers. It “is concerned by Southwest's unacceptable rate of cancellations and delays and reports of lack of prompt customer service.” By comparison, “American, United, Delta and JetBlue, suffered cancellations rates of between none and 2% by Tuesday.” (Patch)
4. OR Bar WeHo had its soft opening on December 15. The new gay bar is located at 8228 Santa Monica Boulevard, “inside for the former Gold Coast Bar space.” Gold Coast closed in 2020 after having been in business for 39 years. (The Pride LA)
5. If you haven’t nailed down your New Year’s Eve plans yet, consider Grand Park’s NYELA. Festivities at 200 North Grand Avenue kick off at 8 p.m. It’s free, involves the famous “3D countdown light show projected onto L.A.’s iconic City Hall,” and promises lots of music and dance. Food trucks will sell refreshments; however, there won’t be any alcohol. (Grand Park LA)

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📓 From my notebook:

• "71 Years Ago Today - December 26, 1951... Please join the men and women of your Los Angeles Fire Department in wishing a Happy Birthday to LAFD Station 10, which opened on this day in 1951, to proudly serve the growing lower Downtown area." (LAFD via Instagram)
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• "In celebration of the New Year, the Department of Beaches and Harbors will host the Marina del Rey New Year's Eve Fireworks & Glow Party event this Saturday, December 31st, 7 PM – Midnight, at Chace Park." (Beaches and Harbors, Los Angeles County via Facebook)

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— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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