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—Whittier: 23 people, believed to be recruits with the L.A. Sheriff's Department out on a run with the nearby STARS Explorer Academy, were injured when a driver of an SUV hit them with their car this morning, leaving 14 with minor injuries, four with moderate injuries, and five more with critical injuries. The driver is in custody. [OC Register]
—Downtown: A man walked into the Target store at the Figat7th shopping development yesterday, grabbed a butcher knife from the shelves, then stabbed a 9-year-old boy in the shoulder from behind and a 25-year-old woman in the chest. A security guard shot and killed the man, who is believed to be in his forties. [CBS]
—South L.A.: Actress Denise Richards and her husband say they were shot at in a suspected road rage incident in South Los Angeles while looking for parking, leaving bullet holes in their Ford F-150. [Deadline]
—Hollywood: "Taking stock of the vanishing landscape of Russian Hollywood." [LAT]