New California communications company will keep thousands of former Verizon...
Frontier Communications is set to acquire all of Verizon's landline-related assets in California, Florida and Texas on Friday -- a deal that includes 5,000 California employees.And contrary to the way...
View ArticlePipe bomb explodes in Anaheim; no injuries reported
ANAHEIM >> A pipe bomb has exploded in a Southern California alley, causing minor damage and no injuries.Anaheim police Sgt. Daron Wyatt says a report of a possible explosion sent officers to the...
View ArticleArcadia theft suspect arrested with help from GPS 'bait bicycle'
ARCADIA >> A theft suspect picked the wrong bicycle to target Sunday when he tried to ride off on a bicycle fitted with an Arcadia Police Department GPS tracking device, officials said.The...
View ArticleConservation groups cry foul over planned Sepulveda Basin music festival
LAKE BALBOA >> It would be a three-day music festival to rival Coachella, only this one would be staged in the heart of the San Fernando Valley.But the proposed AngelFest -- a family music...
View ArticleExpressing civic pride through Pomona Beautification Day
POMONA >> On the surface Pomona Beautification Day is about collecting trash, cleaning up alleys and planting flowers but the citywide event is much more than that, organizers said. The event,...
View ArticleChino Hills' perfect basketball season stands among the all-time greats
From day one the Chino Hills boys basketball team set out with a goal -- an undefeated record and a state title, or bust. For most those are unrealistic expectations, but Huskies coach Steve Baik knew...
View ArticleGood Samaritans thwart Irwindale robbery
IRWINDALE - A man tried to rob a woman of her purse but didn't persist when the victim fought back and received help from her boyfriend and bystanders, police said.Officers arrested the would-be...
View ArticleWhy Metrolink train cars are louder than they used to be
Covina residents who live near Metrolink tracks are accustomed to the sound of train conductors blowing their horns as they approach street crossings but some say that noise has recently gotten...
View ArticleHow fungi sent to space by USC, NASA might change medicine forever
A joint experiment by NASA and the University of Southern California that will send fungi to space could change the way medicine is produced, both here on Earth and on long distance journeys across our...
View ArticleWill a minimum wage increase fuel more automation at California businesses?
Gov. Jerry Brown joined with legislators and labor unions Monday to announce an agreement that would boost the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, a move one Southland economist says will fuel...
View ArticleMetro mulls adding a Metrolink station at Rio Hondo College, near 60 and 605...
Led by Supervisor and Metro board member Hilda Solis, Metro has commissioned a study to determine the cost of adding a Metrolink Station at the base of Rio Hondo College in Whittier linking the nearby...
View ArticlePanel says CSU should give faculty the 5 percent raise they asked for
An independent fact-finder tasked with looking into the pay fight between California State University and its faculty determined that the 23-campus system should give professors the raise they've been...
View ArticleLocal community things to know and do for the Pasadena area for March 29, 2016
ALTADENAWater to be discussed at ACONA meetingThe Altadena Coalition of Neighborhood Associations will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Altadena Community Center. The topics to be discussed all surround...
View ArticleSuspected mail thieves caught in South Pasadena
SOUTH PASADENA >> Police arrested three men and two women after a detective on his way to work Monday spotted them allegedly stealing from a U.S. Postal Service mailbox. South Pasadena Police...
View ArticleUnattended rice cooker shuts down Monrovia Gold Line station
MONROVIA >> An unattended rice cooker found at the Monrovia Gold Line Station led to street closures and trains bypassing the station Monday morning. A deputy saw the rice cooker on the platform...
View ArticlePaul Tanaka's corruption trial to continue Tuesday
Jurors will return to federal court Tuesday to hear testimony in the criminal corruption trial of Paul Tanaka, once the second-in-command of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. A former deputy...
View ArticleWhat Duarte is doing to help combat uptick in property crimes
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will step up patrols in Duarte starting Friday to alleviate growing concerns from residents and business owners over an increase property crimes last...
View ArticleFBI warns of increasing online dating scams
He had taken $23,000 of her life savings and made her hock her jewelry.But even now, 83-year-old Kathy thinks a civil engineer from Washington named Fred, who chatted her up online and promised...
View ArticleHouse fire in San Marino causes road road closures
SAN MARINO >> There are full street closures stemming from the intersection of Roanoke and Warwick roads Monday due to a house fire, police said.The closure on Warwick from Huntington Drive to...
View ArticleFBI ends case against Apple after cracking gunman's iPhone in San Bernardino...
Federal prosecutors on Monday announced that the Justice Department, with the help of a mysterious third party, successfully accessed the data from the work-issued iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook, the...
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