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Headlines: Deputy Shoots Man at Bellflower Street Takeover; LBC Closes Beaches Over New Sewage Spill

7:34 AM PST on March 3, 2022

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Welcome to L.A. TACO’s daily news briefs, where we bring our loyal members, readers, and supporters the latest headlines about Los Angeles politics and culture. Stay informed and look closely.

—The Armenian owner of San Diego's Pushkin restaurant, a Russian restaurant named for the nation's greatest poet, has received threats and 1-star Yelp reviews, despite opposing the Russian invasion and employing many Ukranians. [ABC]

—While responding to a street takeover in Bellflower on Wednesday night, L.A. Sheriff's Department deputies shot a man who allegedly stabbed another man with a spiked gardening tool. The man, a 32-year-old father of seven, died at the hospital. [ABC]

—A man in his 80's was killed during a daytime home invasion robbery in Encino on Wednesday, while another man in his 60's was pistol-whipped. [Yahoo! News]

—Long Beach has had to close all coastal swimming areas again, following another spill from a grease-clogged sewer line, this time in Paramount. [LAT]

—A brush fire has burned hundreds of acres west of Lake Elsinore in the Cleveland National Forest in Riverside County. [NBC]

—Eight people were injured after an LAUSD bus collided with a vehicle in South L.A. on Wednesday night. [KTLA]

—These are the best tacos in Woodland Hills, according to Woodland Hills Magazine. [WHM]

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