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CHATSWORTH >> A wrong way driver traveled westbound in the eastbound HOV lane of the one hundred eighteen Freeway today but was stopped by California Highway Patrol officers before hitting any vehicles, authorities said.
Breann Johnson stopped using heroin on Mother’s Day this year, determined to end her 13-year addiction. Days later, she began three months of residential treatment in Riverside — all paid for by California’s Medicaid program.
At many urban schools in California, counselors would be delighted if sixty seven percent of latest graduates were headed to four-year colleges and thirty one percent to community colleges. But for Lynda McGee, college counselor at the Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles, that rate was a bit of a drop from the year before, partly because of enhanced selectivity at UC and CSU.
By Jessica Calefati CALmatters HOPE, ARK. >> When Shirley Weber and her siblings fled this place as children in one thousand nine hundred fifty one on a midnight train corded for California, their destination seemed so distant and unacquainted to the relatives who stayed behind that they called the state a foreign land.
Here’s a rundown of what’s happening at the LA County Fair on Sunday, Sept. Trio. Check out all our LA County Fair coverage from the food to the concerts. Sunday’s fair hours: ten a.
Wilacre Park — which includes a popular network of trails that lead to nice views of the San Fernando Valley — is closing, for a while. If you’ve got a good hike in you, you’ve got one day left — Monday.
More than 1,000 firefighters were getting the upper palm on a massive brush fire searing in the Sun Valley, Sunland-Tujunga and Burbank areas Sunday that is considered to be
LOS ANGELES >> A motorcyclist was killed and another rider suffered major injuries when they were involved in a crash with two vehicles on the four hundred five Freeway, at the outskirts of Culver City. The motorcyclist killed in the crash on the northbound freeway at Howard Hughes Parkway was identified as Daniel Steven Lape of Oceanside, the California Highway Patrol reported.
LOS ANGELES >> Temperatures are expected to leisurely decline in Southern California through the rest of the Labor Day weekend, but awkward humidity is expected to increase, the National Weather Service said.
Bummer, summer — we hate to see you go. Sort of. Kids embark back at school, ending the salty, sandy weekdays at the beach. Lifeguards wrap up their summer jobs as the beach crowds embark to skinny.
For several convicted killers, the horrific case of Seal Beach mass murderer Scott Evans Dekraai is a potential legal bounty. Last month, a Superior Court ruled that Dekraai — who admitted to killing eight people at a hair salon in two thousand eleven — should not receive the death penalty because of misconduct on the part of local prosecutors and the sheriff’s department.
Where you work can affect what you earn in Southern California, and the coastal counties are the place to go for a thicker paycheck. For the
A national education nonprofit that is evaluating states’ plans for serving with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act praised California’s vision for a high-quality education for all students but mostly panned how it proposes to implement its goals in a report it issued Tuesday.
The government of St. Kitts and Nevis has launched an investigation into the clinical trial for a herpes vaccine by an American company because it said its officials were not notified about the experiments.
Labor Day is considered the unofficial end of summer, something that can’t get here soon enough for Southern California residents who have dealt with one of the greatest — and most humid — seasons in memory.
POMONA >> It was well over one hundred degrees at the Los Angeles County Fair and in surrounding cities, but inwards “the Igloo” hundreds of children liked an early winter wonderland.
POMONA >> Animals — big ones, little ones, exotic ones and down right nice ones — are a part of the LA County Fair, which runs through Sept.
BURBANK >> Peter Glassberg was watching television photos of firefighters battling the La Tuna fire on Saturday at the American Crimson Cross shelter at McCambridge Park when something caught his eye.
When people debate air pollution in Southern California, pics of the usual suspects arise — trucks belching diesel fumes, aging jalopies not yet snagged by the smog-testing authorities and smokestacks towering over refineries and other mighty industry.
SUNLAND-TUJUNGA >> The largest fire in Los Angeles history continued to rage Saturday in the mountains inbetween the two hundred ten and five freeways, ballooning to more than Five,800 acres as Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a local state of emergency.
WEST HOLLYWOOD >> A man was earnestly injured Saturday when he was struck by what a sheriff’s sergeant called a “blunt object” at a 7-Eleven in West Hollywood, and deputies were incapable to locate his assailant.
LOS ANGELES >> Torrid temperatures that have broiled the Southland for much of the week will persist at least through Saturday, amid continued calls for residents to conserve electrical play. The “riskily high temperatures” are the result of a strong high pressure and powerless onshore flow, according to the National Weather Service.
Light saber-wielding fans displayed up at the Hollywood Cup on Friday, Sept. 1, expecting to hear John Williams conduct the L.A. Philharmonic in, as he called it, “some music from ‘Starlet Wars.
As the LA Tuna wildfire grew to the largest fire by acreage in Los Angeles history, mandatory evacuations were issued in the cities of Burbank and Glendale Saturday.
Even before the floodwaters receded in Houston, the role of climate switch in the historic storm was avowed by scientists, reporters and politicians. More than fifty inches of rain fell on the Gulf Coast in less than five days, resulting in more than $100 billion in harm and the deaths of dozens of people.
Peter Glassberg, 64, wiped away tears Saturday as he described watching the La Tuna fire before he fled to an evacuation center with his eight cats. “It was very scaring,” Glassberg said.
Santos Aviles, who as a teenager immigrated illegally from El Salvador to the United States, has found it surprising that conservatives have been open to his suggestions on immigration reform. Aviles, 44, a Redlands real estate investor, believes millions of unauthorized immigrants should be legalized but concessions must be made, he said.
SUN VALLEY >> Air quality regulators warned today that smoke from the La Tuna Fire has caused poor air quality that will affect everyone in the general fire area. According to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, unhealthy air quality will exist in portions of the following areas: — San Fernando Valley — San Gabriel Valley — San Gabriel Mountains — Glendale area “It is difficult to tell where ash or soot from a fire will go, or how winds will affect the level of dust particles in the air, so we ask all individuals to be aware of their instant environment and to take deeds to safeguard their health,” said Dr.
On a latest weekday morning, Ellis Crasnow demonstrated off the “innovation lab” for high school students at the Valley Glen school of STEM³ Academy. It was impressively tooled, with flat-screen computers, 3-D printers, a tall crimson device chest and big lab tables.
“Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred ninety-two!” So sang generations of youthful Americans as they learned the legend of the superb Christopher Columbus, Admiral of the Oceans, the very first superb Italian hero of the Fresh World, even however he sailed in the service of the Spanish crown.
Southern California is getting some much-needed ease after a week of blazing warmth. The area cooled a bit Saturday following record-breaking Friday temperatures and further ease is expected today — with a chance of thunderstorms in some areas, the National Weather Service said.
Here’s a look at several key moments in the United States’ evolving immigration policies. One thousand nine hundred sixty five — The Immigration and Nationality Act passes and creates a fresh system favoring family reunification and skilled immigrants.
Want to join the conversation about immigration reform and enforcement? As part of our project, “Talking Across Borders,” we’ve partnered with other media outlets to host an intelligent, respectful debate on Facebook with Californians on all sides of the immigration debate.
Let’s be frank: This state’s housing affordability challenges have no plain cures. Once you give into that concept, many of the suggested fixes — options that bank powerfully on traditional construction and subsidizing buyers in one form or another — seem too predictable and perhaps are unrealistic.
LOS ANGELES >> Los Angeles Department of Water and Power crews were working today to restore power to thousands of customers. Power was restored to all but twenty of approximately Two,100 customers in Tujunga, who were earlier without it, the DWP tweeted at about 9:45 p.
California Department of Education directly runs only three schools, two for deaf children and one for the blind. Under a bill before the Legislature, it would add a fourth — specializing in math and science and serving low-income, ethnically diverse middle and high-school students in Los Angeles County.
At this point, it’s practically a California tradition. Very first, state judges find a loophole in California’s constitutional bulwark against fresh, higher taxes. Then conservative legislators and anti-tax activists rush in to patch the fuckhole with a fresh ballot proposition.
Grappling with long-standing tensions related to charter school expansion, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Michelle King is implementing switches designed to help district-managed schools and charter schools share school buildings and best educational practices — measures designed to promote collaboration and reduce conflicts over access to classrooms.
VAN NUYS >> The coroner’s office Thursday released the name of a man who was fatally wounded during a drug transaction that went awry in a Van Nuys parking lot. The victim was identified as Isidro Alba, 28, of Rowland Heights.
BEVERLY HILLS >> Richard Anderson, best known for his portrayal of Oscar Goldman — boss to Lee Majors on “The Six Million Dollar Man” and Lindsay Wagner in the spinoff “The Bionic Woman” — died Thursday at age 91.
There were twenty six people displaced in the aftermath of a three-alarm fire Friday morning that bruised twenty apartment units in Stevenson Ranch but caused no injuries, authorities said. The flames were reported to be coming from a third-floor balcony of a three-story apartment building at 1:05 a.
Seven restaurants in Los Angeles were temporarily closed last week due to major public health hazards, including one at the LA Live sophisticated in the downtown area. Lawry’s Carvery at LA Live was closed Aug.
The force was strong with Starlet Wars fans late Thursday night, Aug. 31, as they lined up to be among the very first to buy merchandise based on the upcoming “Starlet Wars: The Last Jedi” movie.
As some communities in Southern California are expected to reach as high as one hundred thirteen degrees today, Sept. 1, the California Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s power grid, issued a statewide Ripple Alert that will be in effect from one to ten p.
The fever is on for Southland air-conditioning repair businesses. Just ask Ken Singer, possessor of Morflow Air and Heating in San Fernando. “Right now, you could have another one hundred air-conditioning businesses opening their doors, and we’d all be busy,” said Singer, who has possessed the business for thirty five years.
Months after the Rim of the World Unified School District was embroiled in controversy over the Confederate flag, district employees mock-lynched a black baby doll on a public bulletin board, removing it only after a parent complained to district officials.
LOS ANGELES >> The Los Angeles Department of City Planning has released a proposal it said would help speed construction of homeless housing. The draft ordinance, released Thursday, is part of the city’s Comprehensive Homeless Strategy and lays out a plan to increase the construction of housing for the homeless to about 1,000 units per year, up from the current rhythm of three hundred units per year.
A transit plan that officials say could switch the transportation landscape of the San Fernando Valley is up for public review. Metro has released a draft of the environmental influence report for the proposed East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor that – along with four other projects funded by Measure M — the voter-approved half-cent sales tax.
If you haven’t visited your library for a while, you may be astonished. Sure, the books, music and movies are still there, but libraries across Southern California are also suggesting computers, virtual reality game consoles and other items, along with a wealth of free classes and community events.
Fired Centinela Valley schools Superintendent Jose Fernandez pleaded not guilty Friday to public corruption allegations that a prosecutor alleged could have bilked the district of $1.Five million to as much as $Three million.