Gunars Bundza wants the volunteers who deliver meals every weekday to his second-floor apartment to know how much he appreciates it. He is 87 and can’t walk much anymore, let alone bring groceries up a flight of stairs. He had just received enough food on Friday, Jan. 18, to last him through the Martin Luther…
A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Sunday evening two miles from Lake Almanor Peninsula, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:11 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 mile. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 29 miles from Susanville, Calif.,…
The motorcyclist killed Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, on the northbound 57 Freeway near Imperial Highway at the border of Brea and Fullerton, has been identified as a 58-year-old man from Hesperia. (Photo courtesy Southern Counties News Service) BREA — A motorcyclist killed on the 57 Freeway on the Brea-Fullerton border was publicly identified Monday. Jeffrey…
By JUANA SUMMERS WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris, a first-term senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump’s nominees, entered the Democratic presidential race on Monday. Vowing to “bring our voices together,” Harris would be the first woman to hold the presidency and the second African-American if she succeeds….
By David W. Hart, Ph.D. Contributing writer Did you know that epidemiologists who study the effects of diet on longevity have described ours as the Standard American Diet, otherwise known as the SAD diet? The acronym alone might tell you everything you need to know about the negative health outcomes related to Americans’ typical food…
The flocks of electric scooters appeared one night late last year in Altadena and East Pasadena, surprising locals who found them perched, without warning, on sidewalks along two busy retail corridors. “I came to work, opened the store — and they were there,” said Paul Netherton, who manages the…
By Wednesday, the Vargas family had fine-tuned an intricate dance, choreographed so that both parents and all three kids could support the teachers’ strike. That morning, from about 6:30 to 9, parents Arnoldo and Maricela Vargas protested outside Banning High School, where Arnoldo is an art teacher…
Myrra Uppuluri, 9, and her mother Priya of Mission Viejo peer through a telescope at the moon as it begins to go into a lunar eclipse during the OC Parks lunar eclipse viewing parting at the Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center at the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve in Newport Beach on Sunday, January…
During the LAUSD strike, a lot of parents have chosen to support the L.A. teachers and keep kids home. But schools have stayed open in L.A. Unified.
Andy Vajna, a Hungarian American film producer who worked on several “Rambo” movies with Sylvester Stallone, “Total Recall” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Madonna’s “Evita,” has died. He was 74. Vajna, who produced many other films, died Sunday at his Budapest, Hungary, home after a long illness,…
