Justin Pritchard

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Truck drivers and supporters picket outside the offices of Green Fleet Systems in Carson, Calif., on Monday, July 7, 2014. The truckers say the companies have prevented them from unionizing and improperly classified them as contractors, rather than full-time employees, to minimize wages and benefits. (AP Photo/Matt Hamilton)

Truckers strike at Los Angeles, Long Beach ports

Justin Pritchard · July 8, 2014 2:29 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, container ships wait to be off-loaded at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. The contract that keeps workers on the job at 29 West Coast ports expires on Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Both sides have said not to expect a deal, and that they will continue to bargain. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Dockworkers’ contract expires, but trade continues

Justin Pritchard · July 2, 2014 12:33 am

Billions at risk as West Coast port contract ends

Justin Pritchard · June 23, 2014 6:36 am

Candidates for statewide office races nearly set

Justin Pritchard · June 5, 2014 1:21 am

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 14, 2014, a row of Google self-driving cars are shown outside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Four years ago, the Google team developing cars which can drive themselves became convinced that, sooner than later, the technology would be ready for the masses. There was just one problem: Driverless cars almost certainly were illegal.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

How Google got states to legalize driverless cars

Justin Pritchard · May 30, 2014 8:15 pm

This image provided by Google shows a very early version of Google's prototype self-driving car. The two-seater won't be sold publicly, but Google on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 said it hopes by this time next year, 100 prototypes will be on public roads. (AP Photo/Google)

Google to build prototype of truly driverless car

Justin Pritchard · May 29, 2014 2:20 am

FILE - This Nov. 8, 2011 file photo shows the vast lawn in front of Beverly Hills High School. Tentative plans call for drilling a subway tunnel 70 feet beneath the campus. Los Angeles' growing public transit network is receiving another big dose of cash from the federal government. Federal and local transportation officials are set to sign grant and loan agreements Wednesday, May 21, 2014, totaling $2.1 billion, so that the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority can extend a subway line into Beverly Hills and, if several lawsuits are settled, all the way to the west side. One of the lawsuits concerns the subway's routing near the high school. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Los Angeles subway getting $2.1B federal promise

Justin Pritchard · May 20, 2014 10:23 pm

In this Monday, May 5, 2014 photo construction crews dig at Los Angeles International Airport, LAX. An ongoing, multibillion-dollar renovation at the nation's third-busiest airport that has mostly been behind the scenes will soon start affecting passengers in ways large and small. LAX officials began warning the public about the coming inconveniences that will stretch over the next few years and affect traffic around the terminals and passenger movements inside them. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

Los Angeles airport makeover about to get painful

Justin Pritchard · May 6, 2014 9:35 pm

5 things to know about Google’s self-driving cars

5 things to know about Google’s self-driving cars

Justin Pritchard · April 28, 2014 12:06 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2012, file photo, Google co-founder Sergey Brin gestures after riding in a driverless car with officials, to a bill signing for driverless cars at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google engineers say they have turned a corner in their pursuit of creating a car that can drive itself. Test cars have been able to navigate freeways comfortably for a few years. On Monday, April 28, 2014, Google said the cars can now negotiate thousands of urban situations that would have stumped them a year or two ago. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Google: Driverless cars are mastering city streets

Justin Pritchard · April 28, 2014 12:03 pm

Missing plane ‘black box’ chirps gone by mid-April

Justin Pritchard · March 26, 2014 11:58 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2012 file photo, Google co-founder Sergey Brin gestures after riding in a driverless car with California Gov. Edmund G Brown Jr., left, and state Senator Alex Padilla, second from left, to a bill signing for driverless cars at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, held a public hearing to solicit ideas on how to integrate driverless cars, sometimes called "autonomous vehicles," onto public roads. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

California pushes to finish driverless car rules

Justin Pritchard · March 12, 2014 7:44 am