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Donate Life Rose Parade floats have proceeded down Colorado Boulevard for nearly 20 years, wowing crowds with 50-foot petal-and-seed sculptures and dazzling ornaments. But the floral finery pales in comparison to the courage, strength and compassion exhibited by those who ride on or march alongside the float on New Year’s Day. Heart transplants, weeks-long comas

A “Jazz Vespers” service is presented on Dec. 12 at Northridge United Methodist Church. (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of religion events in the San Fernando Valley area. Dec. 11 Las Mañanitas musical tribute and Mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe: The feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dec. 12, gets an

The fate of two former Torrance police officers may rest Monday with a Superior Court judge who has been asked to throw out evidence that the officers shared racist and homophobic text messages. Judge Amy Carter will decide whether to suppress evidence from the personal cellphones of ex-officers Corey Weldin and Christopher Tomsic. Attorneys for

LAKE BALBOA — A woman was killed early Friday morning in a two-vehicle crash today in the Lake Balboa/Northridge area that injured two other people. Officers were sent to the 17300 block of Saticoy Street about 2:40 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Information was not immediately available on the identity of the

Jeff Nguyen reports from Pacific Palisades where two armed suspects entered a home in the Palisades, while a party was being held in the backyard, and robbed two partygoers inside the home.

A Lyft driver was punched and spat at during a July trip in Torrance after the driver asked a passenger to put on a face covering, as required by Lyft.

A yearlong investigation into a San Bernardino street gang’s criminal activity has netted 180 arrests, shuttered 30 illegal gambling operations and resulted in the seizure of more than 100 assault weapons and handguns, authorities announced Thursday. San Bernardino police last year began investigating illegal firearms sales involving Westside Verdugo, a Latino street gang rooted in

Police said the victim, longtime Orange County Register editor Eugene Harbrecht, was turning onto Santa Clara Avenue from Bristol Street when two racing cars came toward him at about 11:45 a.m.

“Holidays in the Village, A European Marketplace,” takes place on Dec. 12 in Westlake Village. (Photo courtesy of Holidays in the Village) Here is a sampling of things to do in-person and online in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles area, Dec. 9-16. EVENTS Gem Faire in Santa Barbara: International gem and jewelry dealers show

Donald R. Gerth, a former president of Cal State Dominguez Hills and an influential figure in the CSU system for five decades, has died. He was 93. Gerth died Monday evening, Dec. 6, at his home in Carmichael, according to an obituary released by Cal State Dominguez Hills. No cause of death was given. Gerth,

SUN VALLEY — For over two hours, 87 firefighters battled flames late Tuesday into early Wednesday at a commercial building in Sun Valley before taking control of the fire. Fire crews responded about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday to the corner of Sunland Boulevard and San Fernando Road, where they found a two-story structure with heavy flames

Police have made an arrest in the murder of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, the wife of music executive Clarence Avant, who was shot to death during a home invasion at the couple’s Beverly Hills home.

Nearly 500 Los Angeles Unified school employees were fired Tuesday, Dec. 7, for refusing to comply with a district mandate that they get their COVID-19 vaccine shots. The school board voted 7-0 in separate motions to terminate the workers, of whom most, if not all, presumably had been on leave since mid-October when LAUSD staffers

A new report out Tuesday, Dec. 7, suggests that most Los Angeles families want school leaders to reimagine public education and to not simply return to the old ways of doing things post-pandemic. The report, which lays out the results of a survey conducted this fall as the majority of students and families were readjusting

Jurors began hearing closing arguments Monday in San Bernardino Superior Court in a trial pitting a Yucaipa woman against biotech giant Monsanto, but it had been months since they had stepped foot inside the courtroom. About six months after the county resumed in-person jury trials following the pandemic-inspired hiatus, several attorneys representing the defunct Monsanto

USS Nevada model with John Stewart in 2016. Stewart has restored the film prop that has appeared in several local parades. Eighty years after the USS Nevada was bombed at Pearl Harbor, a nearly 40-foot-long replica scale model of the ship used in the 1970 film “Tora! Tora! Tora” sits in a Wilmington warehouse on

The 38th annual Granada Hills Holiday Parade returned live on Sunday, Dec. 5, after being a virtual presentation in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The crowd at this year’s “A Charles Dickens Christmas”-themed event enjoyed the musical performances, drill teams, equestrian units, vintage cars, community groups and a special appearance by Santa and Mrs. Claus.

Jeff Norton brings out characters for his ‘Griswold Christmas House Display” that is based on the movie, ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” in La Mirada on Friday December 3, 2021. Turner drew the attention and possible fine from the city for his fake second story to match the real Griswold house. (Photo by Keith Durflinger, Contributing

A display of America’s military strength is growing at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum with an M-1 Abrams tank, known as the fiercest of the U.S. ground combat vehicles, joining the collection. “The tank is a powerful symbol of American might,” Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said Saturday, Dec. 4, during an