Category Archives: Local
Koreatown Subway Fatal Stabbing Victim ID’d
Authorities have identified a man who was stabbed to death at the Metro Purple Line station in Koreatown as 39-year-old Andres Ramos. Detectives have learned that the victim had just exited a train wh...
Mar 08, 2017
Woman Killed by Falling Tree in Half Dome Village
A 21-year-old woman was killed Sunday by a falling tree at Half Dome Village in Yosemite National Park. A Park spokesman told Sacramento television station KCRA that the accident happened about 11 a.m...
Mar 06, 2017
Black LA Councilman Faces 2 Latino Challengers in Demographically-Transformed Area
Areas of Los Angeles that were once majority African-American have undergone transformative demographic changes since the 1980s. Now Curren Price, the incumbent District 9 City Councilman representing...
Mar 01, 2017
Union Actors Say Website That Posts Their Birth Dates Costs Them Jobs
Actors' employment opportunities capped by web site that reveals their birth dates. A new law passed by the California legislature to keep the information off the Internet Movie Database (www.Imdb.com...
Feb 28, 2017
After the Rains Catalina Still Struggling with Drought
The rains have brought welcome to relief to the drought-stricken California mainland. But for the residents of Catalina Island, just off the coast of Southern California, the drought never left. Part ...
Feb 23, 2017
State at ‘Tipping Point’ Says Friend of Slain Whittier Cop
By Sandy WellsKABC NewsA friend of slain Whittier police officer Keith Boyer says political change is needed now. Michael Mejia, the reputed gang member who allegedly shot and killed Boyer was release...
Feb 22, 2017
Rains Push California Flood Control Capacity to Limit
The drought-busting heavy rains that have inundated California of late, pushing the nation’s highest dam to the breaking point, is also posing a systemic threat to the state’s flood contro...
Feb 16, 2017
Study: El Niño Erosion Stripped California’s Beaches
California’s beaches were hard hit by El Nino-caused erosion last year. In a study released today, U.S. Geological Survey scientists and their colleagues say the 2015-16 winter featured one of t...
Feb 15, 2017
Metro Bus Ridership Declines as Rail Use Rises
Metro ridership overall is down again, off by 6 percent from 2015. The Los Angeles Times reports that since 2009, rail ridership soared 21%, but bus trips - a much larger share of overall ridership - ...
Feb 13, 2017
Billboard: Grammys Set to Return to L.A. in 2019
The Grammys will be in the Big Apple for the 60th anniversary of the award ceremony next year. But 2019 will be another story. New York and L.A. have been in a tug of war for hosting honors for years....
Feb 10, 2017