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Authorities are investigating after an Uber driver reported his vehicle was shot at on the 10 Freeway in San Bernardino early Tuesday morning. The driver had picked up two passengers in San Bernardino and was westbound on the 10 Freeway at Baldwin Park when someone fired at the vehicle’s rear driver-side window, California Highway Patrol Officer Kimbal said. The window was shattered, but no injuries were reported. The driver kept going to his destination, Pomona, and dropped off the passengers before driving back to the westbound 10 Freeway in Baldwin Park, where the driver called to report the incident, officials said. CHP officers arrived at the scene around 2:40 a.m. and were investigating the incident. A vehicle was seen being towed away from the freeway after CHP officers examined it. Officials did not have information on who may have opened fire on the vehicle, and no further details were immediately available.

Enrollment in the Los Angeles Unified School District has dropped by more than 27,000 students since last year, a decline of close to 6% — a much steeper slide than in any recent year. The comparison is based on an annual count referred to as “norm day,” the fifth Friday of every new school year, Sept. 17 this year. Last year’s enrollment total for pre-school through 12th grade was 466,229. This year’s figure for that same date is 439,013, according to data provided by L.A. Unified that will be presented to the school board Tuesday. Other data released by L.A. Unified indicates other potential concerns. The district estimates that between 70% and 80% of the school staff are on target to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the district’s deadline of Oct. 15, indicating that thousands of employees face termination, which would exacerbate another problem: more than 2,000 unfilled jobs. “We’re still seeing the impact of COVID,” said Veronica Arreguin, the district’s chief strategy officer, about the enrollment decline. Arreguin also noted that much of the decline was expected, in line with many years of…

LONG BEACH (CBSLA) — A young woman was shot by a school safety officer near Millikan High School in Long Beach Monday afternoon. Long Beach police on scene in the 6200 block of East Spring Street where a school safety officer shot a woman near Millikan High School on Sept. 27, 2021. The shooting took place about a block from the school. (Brittany Murray/Long Beach Press-Telegram/Getty Images) The shooting occurred at approximately 3:10 p.m. in the area of Palo Verde Avenue and East Spring Street, about a block from the school. According to Long Beach police, the incident began with an altercation involving several people, including the shooting victim. A Long Beach Unified School District school safety officer responded, and when the woman jumped into the passenger seat of a car, and its driver tried to speed away, the officer opened fire on the vehicle, police said. Cell phone video taken by another student who was being picked up by his grandmother captured a portion of the incident. The woman was struck in the upper body. She was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.…

It’s alive! Amazon is launching a free, month-long House of Horrors pop-up shop in West Hollywood. Inspired by its “Now Screaming” Prime Video content, the shop will open Oct. 1, and continue through Nov. 1. The House of Horrors will be located near the intersection of Melrose Avenue and Westmount Drive. Visuals will include show-inspired costume displays from the streaming service’s available shows, the Orange County Register reported. Guests can also expect photo ops and a Halloween candy kiosk, according to the Register. Hours will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday.

Global shoppers face possible shortages of smartphones and other goods ahead of Christmas after power cuts to meet official energy use targets forced Chinese factories to shut down and left some households in the dark. In the northeastern city of Liaoyang, 23 people were hospitalized with gas poisoning after ventilation in a metal casting factory was shut off following a power outage, according to state broadcaster CCTV. No deaths were reported. Factories were idled to avoid exceeding limits on energy use imposed by Beijing to promote efficiency. Economists and an environmental group say manufacturers used up this year’s quota faster than planned as export demand rebounded from the coronavirus pandemic. A components supplier for Apple Inc.’s iPhones said it suspended production at a factory west of Shanghai under orders from local authorities. The disruption to China’s vast manufacturing industries during one of their busiest seasons reflects the ruling Communist Party’s struggle to balance economic growth with efforts to rein in pollution and emissions of climate-changing gases. “Beijing’s unprecedented resolve in enforcing energy consumption limits could result in long-term benefits, but the short-term economic costs are…

Two California water districts have settled a legal fight over a Colorado River drought deal.

The shortfall of close to 6% in the nation’s second-largest school district is about twice what district officials had predicted.

ORANGE (CBSLA) – Authorities are searching for a man who attacked and attempted to sexually assault a Chapman University student near her dorm in the city of Orange last week. Surveillance video of the suspect following the attack. Sept. 24, 2021. (Orange Police Department) The attack occurred at 12:40 a.m. Friday in the area of Walnut Avenue and Grand Street, according to the Orange Police Department. The suspect attacked the student while wearing a skeleton-style mask or gator and black clothing, police said. The victim was standing in a courtyard of Henley Hall making a phone call when the suspect jumped out of the bushes and attacked her, according to a bulletin that went out to the university community. The victim described the incident to CBSLA Monday. “He punches me in the face, I hit the trash can behind me, like a concrete trash can, he’s just like beating me up,” she said. “I don’t know if I hit him off, or like pushed him off, or I don’t know if he heard people coming. Sometime he got off and I chased him back up…