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Top 5 Westside Stories: Gun Buyback, Famed Deli Shutters

Here are the top five Westside Patch stories from Dec. 23-29.

Close out your weekend with a recap of the newsiest and most popular Patch articles from last week. Here are the five stories that topped the headlines on Westside Patch sites:

  • The city of Los Angeles netted more weapons—2,037—than expected at this year's gun buyback, typically held in the spring, but moved up in the wake of the Dec. 14 shooting tragedy in Newtown, CT. "These weren't guns some say aren't functioning any longer," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said. "These are serious guns, semi-automatic weapons, guns that have no place on the streets of L.A. or any other city."
  • Avoid a DUI—let Metro be your designated driver on New Year's Eve. The bus and rail lines are offering free rides from 9 p.m. Monday to 2 a.m. Tuesday.
  • Junior’s Deli, a Westside staple, will shutter after a 53-year run in Westwood because of a rent dispute. David Saul, whose father founded the delicatessen, called the closure "catastrophic."
  • A man was critically injured Thursday in a blaze at a one-story home in Marina del Rey. A woman was also hospitalized in fair condition.
  • A lightning strike knocked out power Saturday for nearly 1,000 Southern California Edison customers in Culver City. The lightening came as a cold storm spread rain and thunder east from the Santa Monica Bay across Los Angeles.

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