Friday Happy Hour Links: Amtrak bus catches fire on I-5 in Castaic area; Carnival Elation cruise update; LAX water main rupture

> An Amtrak bus caught fire on the side of the freeway on northbound Interstate 5 in the Castaic area. It led to a brushfire near the freeway at Sloan Canyon Road.

>L.A. Now updates us on the Carnival Elation situation in which a woman was found dead in her cabin before the cruise came back from their five-day Mexican excursion. Robert McGill, a longtime teacher for the Los Angeles County Office of Education, was arraigned in San Diego on Friday on murder charges in the death of his wife, Shirley. He pleaded not guilty.

>A 12-inch water main broke Thursday afternoon at a parking structure at LAX, resulting in some limited drinking water services in Terminals 2 and 3. Since then water services in Terminal 2 have been restored in the bathrooms but are not drinkable yet.

>If you were the winner of a $25,000 dream trip customized by travel expert Wendy Perrin from Condé Nast Traveller, where would you go? Give it a shot—it’s not too late to enter.

– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger

Photo: Robert McGill, in white, is taken off the cruise ship by an FBI agent. Credit: Howard Lipin / San Diego Union-Tribune

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