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Actor and comic Harry Anderson, who portrayed the eccentric judge Harry T.
Amy Zisette is still trying to piece together what happened that warm July night. There was music.
Los Angeles officials are in the final stages of negotiating a complex settlement that would shut down a metal-plating company that has been the bane of a poor neighborhood, replacing a stretch of blocks gritty even by the standards of South L.A. with a massive affordable housing project.
In the conservative Orange County town, where ‘hippie’ is a weight problem, homegrown activists are springing up to fight what they see as unchecked development.
Some residents in Sylmar and San Fernando support the move, but others believe it criminalizes an entire area.
Sol Shankman always said that what he did was easy: Set his alarm for 5 a.m., wake up five minutes before it goes off, walk out the front door and into the hills of Los Angeles, hope for nice weather and make a few friends along the way.
With California zeroing in on a thousand days of drought, people here shifted their gaze this week with a sense of dreadful certainty, from the cracked soil and parched tinderbox at their feet toward a plume of smoke rising from the woods somewhere off Quail Drive.
Thunderstorms that wreaked havoc in portions of the mountains and deserts of San Bernardino County have headed north, forecasters said, giving residents a chance to recover from flash floods that killed one person and left thousands temporarily stranded The system of thick, slow-moving storms is headed into the Sierra Nevada, which have been hit hard in recent months by wildfires, said National Weather Service senior forecaster Andrew Rourke.
Thunderstorms wreaked havoc in portions of the mountains and desert of San Bernardino County on Sunday, killing one person, clogging key access roads with rocks and mud, submerging cars and prompting “shelter in place” orders for at least 3,000 people.
Swirling cells of thunderstorms wreaked havoc in parts of the mountains and desert of San Bernardino County on Sunday, clogging key access roads with rocks and mud, submerging cars and prompting a “shelter in place” order for at least 3,000 people.
