Southern Californians willing to stay up late or rise before dawn will have an opportunity to view the annual Perseid meteor shower Wednesday night and early Thursday under what astronomers say should be ideal viewing conditions. The Perseids are expected …
Best time to see the Perseid meteor shower in Southern California Read MoreUpdated Southern California Gas Co. employee uniforms intended to make workers easier for customers to identify will be phased into service throughout the utility’s service territory. The updated uniforms feature prominent company branding and employees’ first names embroidered on shirts …
SoCalGas employees getting new uniforms Read MoreThe Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion Tuesday calling for a study of the feasibility of establishing a county Office of Gender Equity based on United Nations principles aimed at eliminating discrimination against women. The motion by …
LA County to study creation of gender equity office Read MoreA South Coast Air Quality Management District hearing board on Tuesday approved a modified abatement order against Lineage Logistics, requiring the company to implement additional odor-control measures amid an ongoing clean-up of its burned-out cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights. …
After 4,000+ odor complaints, Lineage hit with modified AQMD abatement order for Boyle Heights warehouse Read MoreBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM WENDOVER, Utah (AP) — The only person to break the sound barrier in a car earned another world record Tuesday in a show of force for hydrogen power. British driver Andy Green reached 406.320 mph in a …
Britain’s Andy Green sets another speed record, this time in a hydrogen-powered car Read MoreFor decades, authorities couldn’t identify a woman found dead in Desert Hot Springs on Jan. 19, 1974. Investigators used fingerprints, compared dental records and searched for leads in the case, but came up empty. Advances in forensic science helped officials …
52 years later, authorities ID woman whose remains were left in Desert Hot Springs Read MoreBy HALLIE GOLDEN Pushing through dense, shoulder-high brush near a river in west Michigan, a trooper yells out: “Make some noise!” A boy’s scream can be heard in the distance on body camera footage released by the Michigan Department of …
Video captures rescue of river tubing group stranded for 3 days, living off bark and flowers Read MoreGood morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: The grim discovery of the remains of more than 100 people at South Chicago Chapel has lawmakers calling for changes to how Illinois regulates funeral homes, crematories and embalmers across the state. 🗞️ Plus: …
Illinois’ fraught funeral home oversight Read MoreA 20-year-veteran custodian who allegedly fatally shot a co-worker before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide inside Mark Twain Elementary School in Garfield Ridge Monday was reportedly upset he was being relocated from the school, according to a …
Custodian upset about job relocation sparked murder-suicide at Twain elementary, police say Read MoreA 38-year-old man was was killed and another was wounded Monday night in a shooting in Grand Crossing on the South Side. Officers responded to calls of a person shot around 9:35 p.m. in the 7300 block of South Indiana …
1 killed, 1 wounded in Greater Grand Crossing shooting Read MoreBy Daniela Sirtori, Bloomberg News The moment Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. figured out it was the jalapeños, its automated recall system began calling restaurants, again and again and again. With diners falling ill with salmonella across the country, Chipotle kept …
‘Guac signal’ sparked Chipotle’s frantic bid to recall jalapeños Read MoreBy HYUNG-JIN KIM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward the sea on Wednesday, its neighbors said, the second such weapons testing activity in less than a week. The series of launch events were likely …
North Korea launches a ballistic missile toward the sea, South Korea says Read MoreThe U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s new bureau chief in Los Angeles said Tuesday that Mexican drug cartels utilize the metro area as a key distribution hub for narcotics shipped throughout the country. David Olesky assumed the role of Special Agent …
LA’s new DEA chief says area remains a major fentanyl and meth hub for Mexican cartels Read MoreBy JOSE HERRERA, City News Service The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a plan to restructure committees overseeing a range of government functions, with one member describing the action as “political punishment.” The council voted 13-1 Tuesday in …
Plan to restructure LA city panels sets off cry of ‘punishment’ Read MoreBy WILL WEISSERT WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents have taken secret overseas trips in the past for security reasons, with schedules and logistics kept classified until after the fact to protect the commander in chief. But not like the one President …
Why the elaborate ruse Trump used in Turkey isn’t like other secret presidential trips Read MoreHighlights: Benson Boone performs the first of two nights at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles as a part of the Wanted Man Tour on August 10. The show is his first performance back since canceling his Sacramento show for …
Benson Boone kicks off two nights of Wanted Man Tour in LA Read MoreDEAR ABBY: My brother “Earl” and I always had a very bad relationship. When I was 6 and Earl was 13, he molested me. Actually, he took my virginity. My mother caught him but whipped both of us and told …
Dear Abby: Sister Would Prefer To Skip Abusive Brother’s Memorial Read MoreThree weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number. It was March of 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8%. King …
As MLK noted, if a country stops counting its unemployed, it forgets them Read More“Do you want milk for your matcha?” asked Heiji Choy Black, the partner and operator at Han Cha, the Asian fusion high tearoom that she helped open inside Stony Island Arts Bank in South Shore earlier this year. Choy Black …
Near the Obama Center, Han Cha savors the art of high tea Read MoreA new analysis shows that delaying home insurance claims for just a day or a week can add millions of dollars in profit collectively for the insurance industry. For each day of delays on home insurance claims, the industry takes …
Insurance industry makes millions each day claims go unpaid, analysis shows Read More