Southern California hit by transit strike, grocery strike

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

LOS ANGELES -- Train and bus mechanics for the nation's third-largest mass-transit system walked off the job Tuesday, stranding hundreds of thousands of Southern California commuters already burdened by a supermarket strike and sporadic sickouts by sheriff's deputies.

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