Temple Beth Emet in Burbank. (Google Earth) Here is a sampling of upcoming services and events that are online, and some in-person, in the San Fernando Valley area. Temple Beth Hillel services: Havdalah online, 7 p.m. March 6 (click on the Facebook link from here: (bit.ly/3c1VE6v). A Shabbat service, 7 p.m. March 12 (bit.ly/3qhREnm). The
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Los Angeles Unified teachers and other school employees represented by the local teachers union drew a line in the sand this week by voting overwhelmingly to refuse to return for in-person work if officials make it mandatory before all three conditions the union has asked for to ensure schools reopen safely are met, the union
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has concluded Inglewood did not break the law by paying the mayor’s former assistant and ex-girlfriend more than $400,000 annually in salary and benefits, according to a newly released closing memorandum. Deputy District Attorney Michele Gilmer found the city increased Melanie McDade-Dickens’ salary through simultaneous “acting” and “assignment”
Residents of a Granada Hills neighborhood fear for their safety and property values after what looks to be a junkyard has taken over one home’s front yard.
A pitch to build a solar and wind project in Jawbone Canyon in the Mojave Desert could cost two Vernon City Council members their seats. The tiny manufacturing city’s three other council members, two former mayors and the Vernon Chamber of Commerce are backing a recall effort against Diana Gonzales and Carol Menke over their
LOS ANGELES — In the first two months of this year, Los Angeles Police Department officers fielded 570 reports of shots fired, up 88% from the 303 incidents during same time frame in 2020 — and 267 people were hit by gunfire, a 141% increase from the 111 people wounded in the time frame in
LOS ANGELES — One person was killed Wednesday night in a hit-and-run crash near a neighborhood in the unincorporated Topanga area. All lanes closed at 4201 Topanga Cyn Blvd due to a fatal traffic collision. Incident being handled by @CHPWestValley. @thelocalmalibu @malibudailynews @acornnewspaper @TheMalibuTimes @991KBU pic.twitter.com/jLJYTjcp4F — LASD Lost Hills Stn. (@LHSLASD) March 4, 2021
Plans are underway to bring most junior lifeguard programs back at Southern California beaches, with registration and tryouts already starting or kicking off in coming weeks. San Clemente, which nixed its junior lifeguard program last year because of coronavirus concerns, announced recently it will run its program this summer. Other agencies that had scaled-down their
A Moreno Valley man was behind bars Friday, accused of trying to bury his wife alive.
As of Tuesday, March 2, the California Department of Public Health’s Vaccine Dashboard shows about 12 million doses have been shipped throughout the state (1.7 million more than last week) and of those, 9.3 million have been administered (up 1.8 million from last week). According to Bloomberg’s COVID vaccine dashboard, 16.5% of California’s population (up
Two brothers have been arrested in the beating death of a groom at his own wedding reception in the early morning hours Sunday in Chino.
Cities are major contributors to climate change. According to UN Habitat, cities consume 78 per cent of the world’s energy and produce more than 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. … The sheer density of people relying on fossil fuels makes urban populations highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The City of
LOS ANGELES — COVID-19 vaccination pop-up sites will be offered to residents of Los Angeles City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez’s district in the northeast San Fernando Valley over the next three weeks, starting Tuesday. And you don’t have to constantly refresh a website to get an appointment. You can call a local telephone number. The sites
Every night, neighbors take shifts protecting a local family that has been harassed in what appears to be anti-Asian American attacks. Stacey Butler reports.
Restaurant customers were stunned when a woman suddenly fell through the ceiling. That incident happened last night at a Mexican restaurant in Garden Grove. Michele Gile reports.
The end-of-day totals from California public health websites for Sunday, Feb. 28, registered 2,901 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases there have been in the state to 3,544,572. The 14-day total of new cases, 5,815, is down 86.2% from the Jan. 1 high of 42,268. There were 224 new deaths
A ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, February 21, 2020, officially opened the 257-acre, $6.7 million Hidden Creeks parkland in the Chatsworth Hills. The space is located in Browns Canyon Road above the 118 Freeway at De Soto Avenue. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Community meetings bring people together for exchange of ideas and
Los Angeles is quietly expanding a controversial real-time tracking system from dockless scooters to taxis and ride-hailing vehicles with the goal of creating a future-proof tool to digitally manage the city’s rights of way, but critics fear the technology puts passengers’ privacy at risk. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation will soon require the tracking
A stray mention in my Feb. 14 column of a classic-era KFWB disc jockey prompted a note from reader Bob Watson of Upland, who first off gently corrected my spelling. Or rather, as he said, my transcription of the spelling from a 1959 student newspaper article, which was wrong. The DJ’s name was Elliot Field,
Runners make their way down Wentworth St. while running the SRLA 18 Mile Hansen Dam Action Challenge Saturday morning in Lake View Terrace. Students had been training to run in the annual Los Angeles Marathon originally scheduled for March. However, the marathon has now been postponed until a later date due to the Covid-19 pandemic.