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A former West Covina fire chief who sued the city for wrongful termination was awarded $4.1 million Friday, May 5, by a Los Angeles County jury. Larry Whithorn, a nearly 30-year veteran of the West Covina Fire Department, argued he was fired in April 2019 due to age discrimination and retaliation for reporting a hostile

Musicians perform during the 2nd Annual Valley Asian Cultural Festival Saturday at Pierce College. The event included art, dance, food, music, performances, shopping and children’s activities.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer) A youngster learns origami during the 2nd Annual Valley Asian Cultural Festival Saturday at Pierce College. The event included art, dance, food, music, performances,

A labyrinth in Grace Cathedral, in the Episcopal Diocese of California, in San Francisco. World Labyrinth Day, May 6, has a focus on meditating for world peace as one walks and also as an introduction to walking a labyrinth for beginners. (Photo by Marlith/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported) Here is a sampling of upcoming

It was the day he took Muhammad Ali to lunch at his parent’s Canoga Park home in 1992 that he saw the look he had been waiting for in his father’s eyes. He had dropped out of school years earlier to sell baseball cards for a living, and his parents were disappointed. Like all parents,

Air quality in California has improved a lot since the 1960s, but the fight against smog continues. Last week, the California Air Resources Board announced new regulations of fully transitioning semitrucks to zero-emissions technology by 2045. The new rule cannot be implemented without approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but it is highly expected

LA Metro has crafted a proposed $9 billion budget with a two-pronged goal: increasing ridership to fit a post-pandemic workforce and adding resources that will shift the perception that its transit system is unsafe to ride. A look at the numbers in a 2024 fiscal year spending blueprint that runs from July 1 through June

By Michael Smith | Bloomberg Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel said he’s reluctant to move his operations to Florida from Silicon Valley because housing prices have soared. “If you buy a house in Miami today versus just three years ago, you’re paying four times as much for a monthly mortgage payment,” Thiel said on the

Gene Seroka, executive director, Port of Los Angeles, speaks at event marking the arrival of a zero-emissions locomotive and marking the graduations of new locomotive engineers in Wilmington on May 4, 2023. as the Federal Railroad Administrator, celebrates the newest class of Southern California Locomotive Engineers in Wilmington on Thursday, May 4, 2023. (Photo by

La Cañada Flintridge Sister Cities Association and city officials on Thursday, April 27, hosted Spanish artist Javier Montesol for the culmination of their inaugural “Artist-in-Residence” program. Montesol, best known for his iconic paintings of Spanish dancers and depictions of Spanish culture, collaborated with 14 La Cañada High School art students to create a mural on

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously confirmed Mayor Karen Bass’s three appointees to the harbor commission on Tuesday, May 2. The new commissioners, who will be seated at the board’s May 11 meeting, are former U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Michael Muñoz and Lee Williams. They will replace Commissioners Jaime Lee, Lucia Moreno-Linares and Anthony Pirozzi. The

Karen Fletcher, Los Angeles County’s interim chief probation officer, is stepping down after less than two months leading the county’s troubled Probation Department. The Board of Supervisors promoted Fletcher to the department’s top spot in March after firing her predecessor, Chief Adolfo Gonzales. Her resignation letter to the board on Monday, May 1, states her

Lucia Moreno-Linares is recognized by a speaker at her final meeting as a Los Angeles harbor commissioner on Thursday, April 27, 2023. (Photo by contributing photographer Chuck Bennett) Lucia Moreno-Linares during what was her last Los Angeles harbor commission meeting on Thursday, April 27, 2023. She and board President Jaime Lee — along with Anthony

Three people died on Monday, May 1 after a small airplane crashed near the Big Bear Airport, authorities said. Big Bear Fire was called to an aircraft down in a vacant lot at the corner of Paradise Way and Maltby Blvd., Big Bear City, at approx. 2:02 p.m. Crews arrived on scene in approx. three

A view from the San Fernando Valley: Friends of the LA River held a clean-up on a trail alongside the Los Angeles River on Saturday, April 15, 2023, in Van Nuys. Volunteers collected trash along the trail. The two-day event, also on April 22, was part of the group’s 33rd event at seven sites along

These teen girls are out to change the world. The EmpowHer Institute’s 2023 Girls to Greatness Teen Summit, held Friday, April 28 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, focused on preparing the young women for college and the “real world.” It’s the eighth year of the summit, which organizers say brings more than 500 girls across

In the dark, there was a staccato beat of sound — a thundering, unplaceable boom. Then there was the pain, sudden and unyielding. Giovanni Roman was hit. It was just before midnight on a frigid February evening in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine when the 29-year-old Marine veteran from Garden Grove was struck by

Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church, founded in 1954, is located on Jordan Avenue at Wyandotte Street in Canoga Park, (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of upcoming faith gatherings in the San Fernando Valley area. April 29 Hollywood United Methodist Church: Ten panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display, noon-4 p.m., and

Charlie Lloyd wasn’t sure he was ready for another dog so soon after Lucky died. The retired counselor at Rancho San Antonio Boys Home in Chatsworth thought maybe they should wait a while, but his wife, Dottie, wanted to mend this hole in their hearts as soon as possible. When Dot’s health began to fail,

Overview of the planned 42-acre West Harbor waterfront development in San Pedro. (Rendering courtesy of Studio One Eleven) Proposed amphitheater for West Harbor development. A groundbreaking ceremony was held for San Pedro’s future West Harbor waterfront development on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. Rendering courtesy of Studio One Eleven Rendering of the future Bark Social site,

Crews are getting ready to dismantle a small geothermal plant that’s been operating for months a couple miles from the southeastern shore of the Salton Sea, at a site aptly known as Hell’s Kitchen. A hardy, 30-person team from Australian-based Controlled Thermal Resources has been manning the plant in this corner of the Imperial Valley