BRIEFLY : BIG RIG-AUTO CRASH SHUTS PART OF I-5.LEBEC - A traffic collision involving a big rig Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. and two vehicles in the Lebec area, just north of Tejon Summit, left five people injured and forced a quarter-mile stretch of Interstate 5 to close in both directions for hours, authorities said late Tuesday. A northbound truck collided with a Mercedes-Benz and a Toyota at about 7:45 p.m., with the big rig striking the concrete center divider and spilling an estimated 40,000 pounds of produce onto the freeway, said Andy Nguyen, an engineer for the California Department of Transportation The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is a government agency in the U.S. state of California. Its mission is to improve mobility across the state. It manages the state highway system and is actively involved with public transportation systems in California. . The accident, which occurred along the heavily traveleed Tejon Pass, shut down all northbound and southbound lanes, with the California Highway Patrol detouring traffic, resulting in a nearly two-hour delay for motorists, said Joe Albitre, a CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. . By 11 p.m. southbound traffic was backed up about 12 miles. ?13-Daily News Deputies get call regarding cougar SANTA CLARITA - A resident reported seeing a mountain lion in the Stevenson Ranch area of Santa Clarita on Tuesday night, but when deputies arrived, the cougar could not be located, authorities said. The resident reported seeing the cougar near Hemingway Avenue and Poe Parkway shortly before 8 p.m., according to the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. sheriff's station. But when deputies arrivd just past 8 p.m., they could not find the animal. |
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