Whether you’re a die-hard horror movie and fiction fan, a professional author or filmmaker of the stuff or just a casual stroller through Burbank’s quirky Magnolia Park business district, Dark Delicacies has been an institution for nearly 25 years. One that seemed doomed just a few weeks ago. Del and Sue Howison, the husband-and-wife owners/founders…
Deputy U.S. Atty. Gen. Rod J. Rosenstein announced Thursday more than $8.3 million in assistance for California victims of the Las Vegas concert massacre. Speaking at an event in Los Angeles, Rosenstein noted that 35 of the 58 people killed in the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting at the Route 91 Country…
For the children of Margarita Avila, their mother is best summed up with a photo that serves as the cover for menus at the family’s chain of Avila’s El Ranchito Mexican restaurants. It was taken about two weeks after the first Avila’s opened in Huntington Park, in 1966. Margarita, then 40, stands…
The men and women collecting petition signatures outside Metro Super Market in Temple City warned of a marijuana takeover and greedy politicians eager to speed it along. They accused Andre Quintero, the mayor of El Monte, of wanting to make the San Gabriel Valley famous as a cannabis hub. Quintero…
A series of small, shallow earthquakes was reported Thursday morning east of Barstow, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A magnitude 3.1 quake occurred at 12:24 a.m. Pacific time just north of the Twentynine Palms Marine base at a depth of 0.6 miles. A magnitude 3.5 temblor was reported in…
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and CHRISTINE ARMARIO CUCUTA, Colombia — For Anahis Alvarado, whose battle with kidney failure has become more desperate as Venezuela sinks deeper into crisis, the prospect of bringing in emergency medical and food supplies can’t come soon enough. She’s watched five fellow patients in her dialysis group die over the past few…
Photos: Mammoth and June Lake snow resorts receive as much as 11 feet of new snow and temperatures hovering around 0 after recent storms.
The President of the United States started committing crimes in an effort to win an election. The president ordered shakedowns, obstruction of justice and a massive cover-up of the crimes his operatives committed to get him elected. While this was going on in the White House, seven guys from Youngstown, Ohio, pulled off the biggest bank heist…
The men and women collecting petition signatures outside Metro Super Market in Temple City warned of a marijuana takeover and greedy politicians eager to speed it along. They accused Andre Quintero, the mayor of El Monte, of wanting to make the San Gabriel Valley famous as a cannabis hub. Quintero…
By JANIE HAR SAN FRANCISCO — A gas explosion in San Francisco shot a tower of flames into the sky and burned five buildings including one of the city’s popular restaurants before firefighters brought the blaze under control. There were no injuries. Wednesday’s explosion and fire sent panicked residents and workers in the city’s Inner…
