PALMDALE, Calif. -- The Palmdale Playhouse is thinking outside of the box this coming season with a highly unusual production for the Antelope Valley called “The African Company Presents Richard III.” Directed by Anastacia Baron. The production is scheduled to debut on Jan. 28, 29, and 30 and will continue through the first week of February.

Based on the historical past of freed American Blacks in the 1800s, the play depicts a Black theater company in New York working to throw on their rendition of a classic Shakespearean play, “Richard III.”

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Board of Supervisors has renewed separate $20,000 rewards for help tracking down the hit-and-run driver who killed an Alhambra man and whoever set fire to two churches in Lancaster and Palmdale.

Supervisor Michael Antonovich recommended that the rewards be extended for 90 days.
The first reward was offered in exchange for information leading to the motorist who hit and killed Shih-Siang Ho on the afternoon of Dec. 1.