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,…
Teams from the teachers union and the L.A. Unified School District are working long hours this weekend to settle a teachers’ strike that has so far cost students five days of normal instruction. On Saturday, they met at City Hall for nearly 12 hours, from 10:57 a.m. to 10:28 p.m. They were expected…
With tens of thousands of teachers striking all over the city he governs, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti stepped up to a City Hall podium last week with a message: “This is the time to make an agreement,” Garcetti said, the first day of a teacher strike that over the next five days would ripple…
LA MIRADA – An 88-year-old woman from La Mirada who had been missing was located, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday. Other details were not released. #WhileYouSlept #FOUND Deputies and a #scentdog searched all night for an elderly woman who suffers from #dementia. #MissingPerson from the #LaMirada area.#SilverAlert issued. #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters pic.twitter.com/90SkhtJy8Q —…
