With considerable fanfare, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti started the year by trumpeting a cellphone app that will instantly notify users in Los Angeles County when an earthquake of 5.0 or bigger begins to hit. The pilot program, officially unveiled Jan. 3, can provide crucial seconds — even dozens of seconds — for people to…
A quarter century has passed, but David Miller will never forget the sound. “It was like there was a freight train under my house,” he said, recalling the moment 25 years ago Thursday, Jan. 17, when the Earth’s plates suddenly slipped along a previously unknown fault 11 miles beneath his Prairie Street home in Northridge….
Third Street Elementary School will be open Monday, but it will hardly be business as usual at the Hancock Park campus: Teachers are expected to picket outside. Students will be herded by unfamiliar adults into big groups both outdoors and indoors. And then there’s the forecast for rain, which…
Shirley Boone, longtime wife of singer Pat Boone as well as a philanthropist, has died. She was 84. She died Friday surrounded by her four daughters, Cherry, Lindy, Debby and Laury, who sang to her, Milt Suchin, Pat Boone’s manager, said in a statement. Shirley and Pat Boone had been married for…
The message has been clear for months from the president of the Los Angeles teachers union: Not only does the L.A. Unified School District have no deficit, it has a huge reserve, more than large enough to meet the union’s demands for higher wages, smaller classes and schools staffed every day with…
ANAHEIM — A man was killed Saturday when he was struck by a vehicle while on an Anaheim street, authorities said. APD Traffic investigators working a fatal auto vs pedestrian collision at Anaheim Blvd / Cerritos Ave. Expect detours until further notice. Avoid the area. @City_of_Anaheim #crash pic.twitter.com/n5M9L4Hjmd — Anaheim PD (@AnaheimPD) January 13, 2019…
A deputy with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department was treated for injuries after receiving a cut on the shoulder in a Saturday morning altercation with an inmate at Theo Lacy Jail. Carries Braun, spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department, said two deputies and a sergeant attempted to address an inmate who did not want to leave…
Cheer teams from Inland Empire high schools competed in the first CIF-Southern Section Cheerleading Championships Saturday, Jan. 12, at Colony High in Ontario. Among the San Bernardino County hopefuls were Chino Hills, Grand Terrace, Kaiser, Summit, Fontana, A.B. Miller and Rialto high schools. Riverside County participants included Beaumont, Centennial, CSDR, Great Oak, Jurupa Hills, Palm…
By ROB GILLIES | Associated Press TORONTO — Tired but smiling, an 18-year-old Saudi woman who said she feared death if deported back home arrived Saturday in Canada, which offered her asylum in a case that attracted global attention after she mounted a social media campaign. “This is Rahaf Alqunun, a very brave new Canadian,”…
Two days before a strike in the nation’s second largest school district, parents all over Los Angeles received automated phone calls encouraging them to connect to a teachers union town hall designed to answer questions and ramp up support. During the live event Saturday afternoon, United Teachers…
