Category: Local Politics

Four people inside a Planet Fitness were seriously injured today when a car crashed through the front of the Torrance gym.

Santa Ana police today released surveillance video
images of suspects involved in a rash of 7-Eleven store robberies in Santa Ana.

Police released surveillance footage today in hopes
of generating tips that lead to three suspects who attacked and fatally stabbed
a 23-year-old in the Westlake district of Los Angeles

Police asked for the public’s help today to locate a
29-year-old woman who was last seen waiting for a bus outside of Union
Station a week ago

“We find our population suffering from old inequalities, little changed by vast sporadic remedies. In spite of our efforts and in spite of our talk, we have not weeded out the over privileged, and we have not effectively lifted up the underprivileged.

When Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that Harriet Tubman would grace the new $20 bill, my heart sang hallelujah. Additional changes to the currency were also announced. The back of the $10 will now recognize the five leaders of the women’s suffrage movement and the back of the $5 bill will recognize civil rights leaders, and honor historic events from the Lincoln Memorial.

Differences versus commonalities: enslavement was different, for instance, in the U.S. from the brand that was practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil and other South American countries. Thus, we view our lives through different lenses when it comes to independence, entrepreneurship, and politics.

Teens will get in for free at YMCAs throughout Los Angeles County this summer, it was announced Monday.
The “Get Summer” program offers free memberships to teens ages 12-17 at all 26 YMCA locations in Los Angeles County during June and July.

It will be a bright and sunny Saturday morning on April 30, making it perfect for the March of Dimes to raise funds for research to prevent premature births, birth defects, and infant mortality.
Thousands of supporters will participate in the three-mile walk/run, which starts and finishes in Exposition Park, adjacent to the Coliseum.