Music filled Pasadena City College’s Robinson Stadium this weekend as the marching bands performing in Tuesday’s Tournament of Roses Parade played for sold-out audiences. The 39th Annual Bandfest featured 20 marching bands across Saturday and Sunday. Bands came from near and far, including from Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Canada, Sweden and Japan. One of the…
A pastor at a Los Gatos church died after suffering a heart attack while on a snowboarding trip with his family in the Sierra, church leaders announced Sunday. Craig Jutila was the pastor of family ministries at Venture Christian Church. He was 53. Craig Jutila (Photo courtesy Venture Christian Church) “We are grieving the loss of…
A fire engulfed a single-story house in flames, displacing 11 Garden Grove residents on Sunday, Dec. 30 The fire started sometime before 7:20 a.m. on the 11500 block of Vicilia Street, the Garden Grove Fire Department said in a statement. It said a resident reported waking up to the smell of smoke and finding signs of…
NEW YORK — It’s an Auld Lang Syne of the times: For the first time, a police drone will be keeping watch over the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square. The unmanned eye-in-the-sky is the latest wrinkle in the New York City Police Department’s ever-evolving plan to keep revelers — and “Rockin’…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — At Granny Shaffer’s restaurant in Joplin, Missouri, owner Mike Wiggins is reprinting the menus to reflect the 5, 10 or 20 cents added to each item. A two-egg breakfast will cost an extra dime, at $7.39. The price of a three-piece fried chicken dinner will go up 20 cents, to $8.78….
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump long ago backed away from his campaign pledge to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, his outgoing chief of staff said, as the president’s demand for “border security” funding triggered a partial government shutdown with no end in sight. John Kelly, who will leave his post Wednesday after a…
I grew up in an affectionate, but uncommunicative Chinese household. But food opened the door to my parents’ memories in ways that words never did.
Brooke Weitzman admits to a serious case of nerves back in February 2017 when she stepped into a certain ninth floor courtroom at the U.S. courthouse in Santa Ana. A 2014 graduate of UCI School of Law, she’d been practicing public interest law a little over two years. Barely a few months had passed since…
The last of four parts. Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 Yvette Estrada’s father packed up and left on Christmas Day, when she was 12. That, she said, was the beginning of her pain. There were older cousins, cigarettes, beer. Soon, Estrada was messing with cocaine, speed, PCP. Pregnancy couldn’t stop her: The night…
In 1860, a young botanist raised in New York and schooled in Connecticut found himself on the payroll of the newly formed California Division of Mines and Geology. His job: Roam the vast, new state, taking samples and observations of plants and animals. Over four years journeying across California,…
