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A little too much for that orange noodle.

The stop sign on Delvale Street and Orange Avenue wasn't enough to keep Modesto Cabral, a 40-year-old La Puente resident, from giving his 2006 Lexus GS430 a nice Sunday-morning bath in the Diaz family's (perfectly Lexus-sized) swimming pool.

According to the California Highway Patrol, the family awoke to Cabral in their backyard...

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Susanna Schick after the accident.

Updated at the bottom with an eyewitness saying Schick crashed completely solo: First posted at 8:04 a.m. April 9.

Friends of bicyclist Susanna Schick are raising funds to help her with her recovery and biking gear after she was injured in what some are claiming was an act of hit-and-run road rage downtown over the weekend.

Her fellow bicyclists say it happened about 11:30 Friday night on Spring Street at Fourth when she was hit from the rear by a man in a white Lexus and ended up unconscious on the sidewalk.

What's scary about the story is that her friends say it was deliberate:

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This fiery scene on the 134 Freeway brought to you by a drunk driver (allegedly.)

By Andra Lim

You have a little too much, you get in your car, you start up the engine.

It's a stupid idea -- and even stupider if you can't avoid hitting the huge double-rig tanker that's carrying over 6,000 gallons of oil. The tanker fire at I- 5 and the 134 Freeway dominated headlines this weekend, and here's how it went down:

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By Andra Lim

Police chased a motorcyclist for 100 miles until he ran out of gas in northern San Diego County and began making out with his passenger on Sunday afternoon.

It started when the California Highway Patrol tried to pull over the bike on I-5 in the San Fernando Valley, because the motorcyclist was speeding and his female passenger wasn't wearing a helmet.

But the motorcyclist hit the gas, and took the freeways past LAX, Long Beach, and the span of Orange County. The ending was perhaps the most bizarre part of all.

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"A car just thought they had drive through (@ Pizza Buona)"

Updated at the bottom: The girl who was dragged into the restaurant was a pregnant teenager.

Originally posted February 21 at 7 p.m.

A maroon Acura just plowed through the two front doors of Pizza Buona in Echo Park, a well-loved pizzeria located on Sunset Boulevard at a busy intersection with Alvarado.

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Grease

A 53-year-old woman who possibly thought she was getting on the freeway drove her Mercedes into a concrete-lined tributary of the L.A. River today and continued going at freeway speeds, police told the Weekly. It all happened ...

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