A 47-year-old man was ordered to serve 180 days in jail for peeping into several Westwood apartments in recent months. Christopher Mendicino pleaded no contest Tuesday to two charges of peeping and one charge of loitering, said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office, in an email statement. Read more...
Photo: Christopher Mendicino, 47, was sentenced Tuesday for peeping into several UCLA student apartments. (UCPD)
The plane landing was anything but smooth, yet passengers exploded into applause once we hit the ground in the Barcelona airport. Instantly, we knew we were somewhere special. Read more...
City officials cited outdated engineering practices as the cause of last week’s water main burst in several statements this week. There was an extensive amount of corrosion both inside and outside of the pipes that burst on July 29 near UCLA, said Jim McDaniel, senior assistant general manager for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, at Tuesday’s Board of Water and Power Commissioners meeting. Read more...
The faces from the videos in the museum exhibit spoke to Benjamin Lewis, but he could not hear what they were saying. The lecturer in American Sign Language said he thought a permanent exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance would better serve the deaf community if the video testimonies of the Holocaust victims and survivors were in sign language. Read more...
Photo: Benjamin Lewis signs in front of his class. Lewis’ class recorded themselves signing different stories and testimonies from World War II for the Museum of Tolerance. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The ruptured water main that spewed millions of gallons onto campus Tuesday was 93 years old, but in Los Angeles, hundreds of miles of century-old water pipes are tucked beneath the city’s streets. Read more...
Daily Bruin Video took some shots of UCLA Bruin Plaza, the outside of J.D. Morgan Center, Parking Lot 36 and the Wooden Center after the flood. Read more...
An Anderson School of Management employee talks about her experience retrieving her car after it was stuck in Parking Structure 4 for two nights. Read more...
