Category: Local Politics

Opponents of two recently signed bills related to abortion have until Jan. 7 to submit enough valid signatures to qualify referendums attempting to overturn them.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be honored in Beverly Hills tonight for her humanitarian contributions.

Jim Ledford was re-elected on Tuesday to an unprecedented 13th term as mayor of Palmdale, while incumbent Tom Lackey retained his council seat as the controversial election was completed amid a months-long saga of lawsuits, federal inquiries and court-ordered oversight.

The city of Santa Clarita, in partnership with College of the Canyons, the L.A. County Department of Public Health, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, will provide flu vaccinations on Nov. 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at College of the Canyons in the East P.E. Gym, located at 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road. Free vaccinations will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis and are only available while supplies last.

Last week’s shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport pointed out a weakness in the surveillance equipment there, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said today.

A baby Okapi calf made its first public appearance at the Los Angeles Zoo this week after bonding with his parents for the past two months.

Police hope a $50,000 reward announced today will flush out whoever was involved in a vehicle-to-vehicle shooting that killed a 17-year-old high school football player.

Beginning Nov. 1, 1.1 million individuals in Los Angeles saw a reduction in their Cal Fresh benefits, and the county saw a net loss of $9.7 million. For a family of four, this translates into a $36 monthly cut and for a single-person household the amount lost is $11, according to the Department of Public Social Services. The cuts happened because the federal stimulus funding approved in 2009 for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) expired, and benefit levels returned to their regular amounts.

PBS and Thirteen/WNET have launched an ambitious national educational outreach initiative to extend the impact of the six-part series “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.”