With Labor Day past, the end of summer is approaching. Meanwhile, Alta Magazine‘s summer issue, purchased in late July, was sitting untouched. I decided I’d better get to it. As always, the quarterly devoted to California and the West has Inland Empire insights, often in unexpected places. A profile of James Darrah, the new artistic
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A Police K-9 was clearly not messing around when he jumped right through that shattered window to take down a pursuit suspect in Corona Thursday night.
Los Angeles County public health officials reported 1,060 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,421,616 as of Tuesday, Sept. 7. The total number of cases represents 14.2% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported nine new deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 25,465 deaths since tracking
Temperatures reached into the 90s and low 100s throughout Southern California’s inland areas on Labor Day, but no heat records tumbled for the holiday this year. Last year’s Labor Day high temperatures soared to well over 100 in several areas, including 120 degrees in Woodland Hills. Still, it was plenty warm and temperatures were higher
They came. They saw. They conquered the bridge. More than 2,600 people ventured to San Pedro for the 12th annual Conquer the Bridge race over the Vincent Thomas Bridge Monday, Sept 6. The 5.3-mile route led runners through the downtown waterfront, across the city’s iconic bridge and back to the finish line at the corner
Fueled by a surge in e-commerce spending and the approaching holiday season, Walmart is looking to hire workers for its Walmart and Sam’s Club distribution centers in Southern California. The local hires are part of the mega retailer’s push to bring on 20,000 people nationwide as order fillers, freight handlers, lift drivers, technicians and managers
On a sunny, hot Sunday afternoon, Sept. 5, hundreds streamed down Avenida Del Mar through the hub of San Clemente’s downtown toward the city’s Marine Monument at Park Semper Fi. The crowd chanted, “USA! USA!” and carried American and Marine Corps flags in tribute to the 13 service members who on Aug. 26 were killed
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan last week came too late for U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Edward Balli and Navy Lt. Francis Toner. Both Balli and Toner were killed in separate combat actions years ago in war-torn Afghanistan, where U.S. forces fought for 20 years before the final withdrawal last week. Their mothers,
As the sun dipped below the horizon behind equestrian arena grandstands, Norco grieved the setting of one of its own sons, Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Mae’Lee Grant Nikoui, who was killed in an attack on Afghanistan’s Kabul airport on Aug. 26. Nikoui, a 2019 Norco High graduate was described as a “strong person,” who “held no
The vast majority of El Segundo residents who applied to Los Angeles city for cash reimbursements meant to help them pay to escape an odor emanating from the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant have yet to receive any money, officials and applicants say. El Segundo residents have dealt with a stench, which they say is often
The union representing Los Angeles Unified teachers continues to insist that its members have the choice of allowing students who are home isolating or quarantining because of the coronavirus pandemic to watch a livestream of their classroom instruction or providing separate live virtual instruction through Zoom. According to the latest counterproposal that United Teachers Los
Scores of pandemic-weary Southern Californians will take to the highways and skies this Labor Day weekend, even as U.S. health officials implore those who haven’t been vaccinated to stay home. Even the vaccinated and those who are still wearing masks in public should consider the risks of coronavirus exposure, Rochelle Walensky, director for the Centers
It was a solemn, tearful evening Thursday as friends, family members and the community gathered in Rancho Cucamonga to honor 20-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, one of 13 U.S. service members killed in the Aug. 26 attack at a Kabul, Afghanistan airport. Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga was killed in
Gerald C. Rivers, Mark Lewis, Franc Ross and Christopher W. Jones in a production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. The play runs on Sept. 5 and other dates through Oct. 30. (Photo by Ian Flanders) Here is a sampling of things to do in-person and online in the San
Los Angeles County public health officials reported 2,277 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,409,545 as of Wednesday, Sept. 1. The total number of cases represents 14% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 38 new deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 25,322 deaths since tracking
One of the “Industries of California” murals by Ralph Stackpole at Coit Tower in San Francisco. (Photo by Oren Rozen; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported) Government offices – Los Angeles city and county, national and state – and courts, libraries and schools are normally closed for the Labor Day holiday. Here is a sampling
Some people are losing their minds over the newest offering from Popeyes. A man was killed after cutting the line in Maryland just to get one of the chain’s chicken sandwiches. Another recording shows a man jumping through a drive-thru window. Greg Mills reports on the craze from South L.A.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is leading a coalition to deploy 100 battery-electric trucks across California, a move aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and cutting fuel and maintenance costs. The agency is touting it as the largest commercial deployment of battery-electric trucks in North America to date. The announcement was made Tuesday
A group of store employees jumped into action when they saw a man trying to steal groceries and when they tried to stop him a good Samaritan stepped in to make sure he didn’t get away. Michele Gile reports.
The union representing Los Angeles Unified teachers has accused the school district of bargaining in bad faith over a learning plan for students quarantining because of the coronavirus pandemic and said it will file an unfair labor practice charge with the Public Employment Relations Board. The two sides had been negotiating over a Continuity of