A public school board in Southern California has postponed considering a proposal that would allow Planned Parenthood to open a clinic on a high school campus. The Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District, which serves some 17,000 students in a Hispanic-majority community southeast of Los Angeles, said it will, at least for now, stop discussing the…
LA Area School Board Halts Discussion to Open Planned Parenthood Clinic on High School Campus
Murder Charges Announced 7-Eleven Shooting Suspect
SANTA ANA, Calif.—Prosecutors plan to charge a Los Angeles man in connection with three murders across Southern California as part of a deadly crime spree at a half-dozen 7-Elevens and a doughnut shop. Law enforcement accused Malik Patt, 20, of Los Angeles, of the July 11 deaths of a 7-Eleven clerk in Brea and a…
Murder Charges Announced for 7-Eleven Shooting Suspect
SANTA ANA, Calif.—Prosecutors plan to charge a Los Angeles man in connection with three murders across Southern California as part of a deadly crime spree at a half-dozen 7-Elevens and a doughnut shop. Law enforcement accused Malik Patt, 20, of Los Angeles, of the July 11 deaths of a 7-Eleven clerk in Brea and a…
San Francisco’s New DA Goes on Firing Spree After Voters Recall Predecessor
The new district attorney in San Francisco fired at least 15 employees from the prosecutor’s office after her left-wing predecessor Chesa Boudin was recalled last month. “Today, I made difficult, but important changes to my management team and staff that will help advance my vision to restore a sense of safety in San Francisco by holding…
LA Hospital Officials Dismiss COVID-19 ‘Media Hype’ as Mask Mandate Looms
Two officials at one of the largest hospital systems in Los Angeles and Southern California dismissed government officials’ statements about another wave of COVID-19 hitting the region and the United States as “media hype.” Los Angeles County health director Barbara Ferrer last week said that her county is now seeing a “high” level of COVID-19…
Transient Sentenced to Over 11 Years for Robbing Mail Carriers
LOS ANGELES—A transient who lived in various locations in the San Fernando Valley has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for a two-week crime spree in which he robbed five U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employees—and fired a handgun so close to one victim that it caused him to suffer a ruptured eardrum, the…
1 Million Fentanyl Pills Seized in Inglewood
LOS ANGELES—Roughly 1 million counterfeit pills containing fentanyl were seized earlier this month in Inglewood, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced Thursday. “This record-breaking bust is the largest seizure of fentanyl pills (the) DEA has made in California,” the DEA said in a statement. The investigation, which began in May, involved the DEA Los…
Starbucks to Close 6 Stores in Los Angeles Area Amid Safety Concerns
LOS ANGELES—Starbucks announced this week that the company will permanently close 16 stores across the country, including six locations in the Los Angeles area, due to a high number of dangerous incidents such as theft and assault. The decision was made after the employees from these locations were “challenged in their ability to provide [a] safe…
Los Angeles Homicides Jump 39 Percent Since 2019
LOS ANGELES—In the first half of 2022 homicides in the City of Los Angeles shot upward a whopping 39 percent from 2019. That was the year before the 2020 start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That summer also saw crime increase in most cities after the national riots following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis….
‘On Gold Mountain:’ A New Opera in a Unique Performance
Commentary Opera is a very Western art form. Born in Italy in the 1500s, it would flourish in the royal courts and palatial theaters of Western Europe for the next few centuries. In the 20th century, some of the foremost opera companies in the world grew out of the United States, which continued European traditions…
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