L.A. knows how to put on a variety show. But few productions brought together such an assortment of players and characters from across the city than a surreal talent show broadcast nationwide in 1987. The telethon brought together L.A. politicians, titans of business, actors, artists and an eccentric…
The Costco store in Corona was busy as usual on Thursday afternoon. Families were taking home large pizzas and rotisserie chickens for dinner and hauling away packs of toilet paper and paper towels to last the month. There was little physical sign of what happened nearly a week earlier when an…
On June 24, 1971, seventeen workers were killed by methane gas explosion in a Metropolitan Water District tunnel beneath Sylmar.
President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that “millions of illegal aliens” would be rounded up on Sunday, June 23 sent panic through Southern California’s immigrant community. News that he delayed the sweep for a couple of weeks did little to lessen fears. “The president’s tweet about deportation increased the already existing fear that my family…
Judith Krantz, author of blockbuster romance novels including “Scruples” and “Princess Daisy” that sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, died Saturday in Bel-Air of natural causes. She was 91. The news was originally reported by Deadline. Once called “the hardest working woman in trash fiction,”…
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported Sunday afternoon at 3:39 p.m. Pacific time 39 miles from Fortuna, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake, centered offshore, occurred 43 miles from Eureka, 47 miles from Myrtletown, 50 miles from Arcata and 54 miles from McKinleyville. …
One person died and another had to be airlifted for treatment late Sunday morning following a two-motorcycle crash on Ortega Highway near Ortega Oaks, site of the San Juan Loop trailhead and the landmark Ortega Oaks Candy Store in Riverside County, authorities said. A earlier crash on the highway, about three miles to the northeast,…
LOS ANGELES — Writer Judith Krantz, whose million-selling novels such as “Scruples” and “Princess Daisy” engrossed readers worldwide with their steamy tales of the rich and beautiful, died Saturday at her Bel-Air home. She was 91. Krantz’s son Tony Krantz, a TV executive, confirmed her death by natural causes on Sunday afternoon. He said he’d…
Dave Bartholomew, a giant of New Orleans music and a rock ’n’ roll pioneer who with Fats Domino co-wrote and produced such classics as “Ain’t That a Shame,” “I’m Walkin’ ” and “Let the Four Winds Blow,” has died. He was 100. Bartholomew, a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and…
The beginning of the end for Caesar Ray Cruz came in the form of an email sent by an Anaheim gang cop to his colleagues on a rainy, windy afternoon in December 2009. Detective Nathan Stauber alerted the group that he had received a tip from a confidential informant that 35-year-old Cruz, a discharged parolee…
