NASA's JPL selects former employee to takeover as director
A former Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee of 22 years will replace Charles Elachi as the director of the NASA facility, Caltech announced Monday.Michael Watkins left JPL in 2015 to become the chair...
View Article3-alarm fire at La Puente strip mall causes $3.5 million in damages
A three-alarm fire that broke out at a strip mall in La Puente Sunday night caused $3.5 million in damages, authorities said.Around 70 firefighters battled the blaze that was reported at a commercial...
View ArticleCSU faculty ratify new contract that averted 5-day strike
Members of the California Faculty Association overwhelmingly approved a proposed contract with the Cal State University system that would give them 10.5 percent raises over three years, the union...
View ArticleSEIU janitors in LA agree to new contract, avoid strike
Unionized janitors across the state approved a new collective bargaining agreement on Monday night, averting a strike. Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West members in Los...
View ArticleLittle girl dead, mother wounded, man in custody in Exposition Park stabbings
LOS ANGELES -- A man was in custody today for allegedly attacking his live-in girlfriend and her 2-year-old daughter in their home in the Jefferson Park area of Los Angeles, killing the toddler and...
View ArticleLos Angeles County stepped up its water conservation game in March after...
Normally a tough month for conservation, Californians saved 35 billion gallons of water in March as compared to the same month in 2013 for a 24.3 percent water saving, state water officials reported...
View ArticleWhy LA County businesses are optimistic about 2016, but still don't plan to hire
Most Los Angeles County employers are feeling optimistic about their business prospects for 2016, but fewer than half plan to add more employees, according to a survey released Tuesday.The Los Angeles...
View ArticleAlhambra police arrest 2 suspects found with drugs, loaded handgun
ALHAMBRA >> Alhambra police arrested two people Tuesday afternoon who were found with drugs and a loaded handgun near Almansor Park. At about 1 p.m., police received a call from a witness about a...
View ArticleLA County ends solitary confinement for juveniles
@bgazzar on TwitterThe Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to stop putting youths in solitary confinement except in urgent circumstances.The motion calls for new...
View ArticlePublic celebration of 3 new national monuments to be held Thursday
The public is invited to join federal, state and local officials Thursday for a celebration of three new California desert National Monuments.The official program will run from 9 to 10 a.m., with a...
View ArticleRain to return to Southern California through the weekend
Another bout of rainy weather is expected to drench the Southland beginning late Wednesday.According to the National Weather Service, a low pressure system will bring rounds of showers and...
View ArticleTeenagers addicted to mobile devices, 59% of parents say in survey
Just how badly are we addicted to our mobile devices?It may be even worse than we admit, according to a survey by children's advocacy group Common Sense Media. The San Francisco-based organization...
View ArticleStagecoach generates more arrests than either weekend of Coachella
Police arrested 157 people - almost all for alcohol-related offenses - during the three-day Stagecoach Country Music Festival, officials said Tuesday.The festival drew about 75,000 vans to the Empire...
View ArticleDesert Trip festival to feature rock 'n' roll's senior class
More than 170 original studio albums.Upwards of three centuries onstage.More than 435 million in record sales -- in the U.S. alone.Meet the lineup of Desert Trip, coming Oct. 7-9 to the Empire Polo...
View ArticleHillary Clinton campaign opens office in LA
The Hillary Clinton campaign increased its presence in California by opening a new office in the state on Tuesday night.In Clinton's absence, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and L.A. County Supervisor...
View ArticleFor GOP, Trump's self-funded campaign is a hard act to follow: Susan Shelley
Donald Trump's entrance to the California Republican Party convention wasn't the most awkward moment at the afternoon event."We went under a fence and through a fence and, oh boy, it felt like I was...
View ArticleHundreds of La Serna students hold vigil to remember classmate killed in crash
WHITTIER >> La Serna High School student Ivette Macias was remembered Tuesday by her friends and family for her big heart, bright smile and enthusiasm for life at a vigil held in the courtyard of...
View ArticleMonrovia woman faces federal case in alleged pepper-spray attack on postal...
PASADENA >> Postal inspectors arrested a Monrovia woman Wednesday on suspicion of chasing down and pepper-spraying a mail carrier while screaming racial slurs in an incident of road rage in...
View ArticleWhy 6 LA scientists went on Jimmy Kimmel to tell you climate change...
A video from a late-night TV show featuring six Southern California climate scientists speaking in plain language about the reality of climate change -- some using bleeped out profanity to underscore...
View ArticleAzusa could house the next Laemmle theater
AZUSA >> An arthouse movie theater proposed for downtown Azusa has some residents excited about the prospect of bringing in a new crowd of potential patrons to the small foothill...
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