When the world’s largest cycling event in America, the 2013 Amgen Tour of California, comes to Palmdale on May 14, fans will have a number of great vantage points to watch the race from.

“Of course one of the best places to be for the race is at the starting line at Marie Kerr Park,” said Palmdale Communications Manager John Mlynar. “There you can get up close to these world-class athletes and experience the excitement and build-up to the start of the race, while enjoying a festival-like atmosphere.

Michael Jackson told his tour director days before he died he was hearing God’s voice, a producer testified Wednesday.

“God keeps talking to me,” Jackson said.

Those words spoken to Kenny Ortega and Jackson’s frail appearance were so disturbing that it caused Ortega and associate producer Alif Sankey to burst into tears at a rehearsal, Sankey said Wednesday in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jackson’s mother and three children.