A new school year begins Tuesday, August 20, for the more than 600,000 students in the Los Angeles Unified School District — 15,000 of whom are homeless.
PASADENA, Calif. — August 12, 2019 — As children prepare for the new school year, and amid the largest measles outbreak in the U.S. in almost 20 years, the number of vaccine-hesitant families has grown so much that the World Health Organization has named vaccine hesitancy a global health threat.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Monday it is moving forward with one of its most aggressive steps yet to restrict legal immigration: Denying green cards to many migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance.
On the fourth Friday of every month, volunteers, students and staff members with California State University, Northridge’s CalFresh Healthy Living initiative in Canoga Park load boxes filled with fresh fruits and vegetables into the backs of cars for distribution in the community.
PALMDALE (CNS) — A man who allegedly snapped a photo under a woman’s skirt at the Palmdale Metrolink station has been arrested, authorities said.
Richard Aspen Pittman, a prominent inventor, designer and music industry innovator died in a fatal car crash on Bouquet Canyon Road in Saugus on Friday, Aug. 9.
SYLMAR (CNS) — Mired in financial and management difficulties aggravated by fire and flood damage sustained in recent years, the Wildlife Waystation animal sanctuary outside Sylmar was officia…
Nearly 80% of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrolled students qualifies for meals that are free or are available at a reduced cost. Children who buy their lunch also benefit …
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — With Southland students preparing to head back to school in the shadow of recent mass shootings, Los Angeles county officials are touting a major expansion in a program aim…
IRVINE (CNS) — When it comes to best bang for the buck in higher education, UC Irvine is tops in the nation, according to rankings released Monday, Aug. 12. by Money magazine.
Students attending Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools will begin the 2019-20 academic year on Tuesday, Aug. 20.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A man who alleged he was sexually abused by a Los Angeles Unified assistant principal in 2004-08, when the plaintiff was a teen at Vista Middle School in Van Nuys, reached …
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A federal proposal to disqualify some immigrants receiving food stamps or Medicaid from gaining entry to the U.S. or obtaining a green card is “inhumane” and “heartless,” a…
Just days after tragic shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, hundreds of people came together for the fifth annual City of San Fernando Night Out, part of the national effort to bolste…
Ben Kadish, 25, is looking for ways to reach out to victims in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, but is visably emotional when asked about it. During a morning news conference outside of the e…
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The massacre that killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso struck a city that has long been the cradle of Mexican American culture and immigration and suffered through bl…
Thousands of people protested Wednesday, Aug. 7, first in Dayton, Ohio and later at the #El PasoStrong rally organized as a counter to President Trump's visit. In both cities, Trump met with…
California State University, Northridge Chicana/o studies professor Stevie Ruiz and a team of current and former students have spent this summer training young people how to better serve their…
ENCINO (CNS) - One week after a seven-acre brush fire raced through the area displacing dozens of homeless people from makeshift dwellings, city crews swept through the charred Sepulveda Basin…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Public health officials confirmed the year's first two human cases of West Nile virus in Los Angeles County, but both patients are recovering.
NASA's Curiosity rover has come a long way since touching down on Mars seven years ago. It has traveled a total of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and ascended 1,207 feet (368 meters) to its current …
Oscar -winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro displayed the Mexican flag as he received a star on the Walk of Fame. He utilized his big moment to speak out in the aftermath of the El Pass mass s…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - At its first meeting since an off-duty officer was killed in Lincoln Heights and four people died in a San Fernando Valley shooting spree, the Los Angeles Police Commission…
August marks back-to-school season, an ideal time for parents in California to help improve their children’s health. Before schedules become packed with classes, homework and extracurricular a…
It is an excruciating time for the Lepe family and all of the families impacted by the Valley killing spree that left four people dead, including their much loved “Susie.”
VAN NUYS (CNS) — The man accused of going on a San Fernando Valley killing spree — gunning down his father, brother, a woman he knew and a total stranger on a bus — has been charged with four …
The 40th birthday party for one of Rafaela Ramirez’ daughters in the City of San Fernando on Saturday, July 27, ended in a fight between partygoers and officers from the San Fernando Police De…
The room full of young girls was buzzing, not from conversation, but from the sounds of power tools. Wearing protective head gear, the pre-teens drilled, hammered and confidently used saws of…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The owner of a San Fernando Valley trucking school has pleaded guilty today to siphoning more than $4 million from the Department of Veteran Affairs in GI Bill funds for cl…
On July 30th, the United Nations World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, LA Councilmember Nury Martinez and Dr. Stephany Powell of the Van Nuys-based organization Journey Out announced the n…
San Fernando Valley residents Paul Bingaman Jr. and Haesung Jee are among the Southland area students named a Milken Scholar for 2019,
It’s illegal, costly and potentially life-threatening.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Sleeping in a car overnight on residential streets or near schools became illegal again in Los Angeles, with the City Council reinstating a ban that expired June 30, sparki…
GLENDALE (CNS) — Family members of a man buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale in 2014 reached a settlement with the cemetery in a consolidated lawsuit that alleged some of the plain…
Every year, drug-resistant bacteria and fungi known as "superbugs" infect 2 million Americans -- and kill up to 162,000 of those patients.
DaVita Health sent over a mobile clinic to the San Fernando Swap Meet on Tuesday, July 30, offering free medical screenings, including diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as information …
A mere 11.35 percent of eligible voters turned in ballots for the two Los Angeles Unified School District board seats in the May 2017 election. In that runoff, Kelly Gonez won the right to rep…
Mariachi Tesoro has done it again.
This second heat wave of the summer is accompanied by monsoonal moisture out of Mexico, meaning it may feel even hotter than what the thermometer shows, will persist through the weekend. Fore…
Young volunteers with the “Wise Up!” Summer Internship Program for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) organization are outreaching in various areas of Los Angeles to encourage …
WASHINGTON (AP) — An immigration enforcement operation that President Donald Trump said was part of an effort to deport “millions” of people from the United States resulted in 35 arrests, offi…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Police are seeking additional possible victims of a 22-year-old San Fernando Valley man suspected of sexually assaulting a number of women he met at clubs in the Hollywood …
A shaggy-haired man with a painted face screamed at the camera, ranting about his enemy. Sweat beaded on the man’s bare chest, his veins popping from his freakishly large biceps. He shook with…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — One day after the FBI served a search warrant at the downtown offices of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the commission that oversees the utility recommende…
PALMDALE (CNS) — Deputies with The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department station in Antelope Valley continue to investigate the head-on collision between a big rig and another vehicle that k…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Southern California Gas Co. is warning Southlanders that scammers are making false promises that rebates will be paid by the utility if customers pay to have earthquake shu…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — UCLA has offered admission to more than 13,700 high school seniors and 5,200 transfer students for the fall term, university officials announced.
SYLMAR (CNS) — Sheriff’s detectives were asking the public for help locating Maximo Perez Sanchez, an 84-year-old Los Angeles resident missing from the Sylmar area.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Attorney General Xavier Becerra has announced a $168 million settlement with a company that provided loans to students at the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute, which clo…
It wasn’t the first time that protestors had circled in front of the Department of Children and Family Services Building in Los Angeles. Nor was it the first time that a grieving grandmother a…
The California Board of State Community Corrections has approved a $1 million dollar youth investment grant (YRG) to the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians in partnership with the Cit…
“ATTN: ICE is at the Vallarta next to the USA fitness in Sylmar, please be careful anyone,” read one of several Twitter messages that spread through social media on July 13 as undocumented imm…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Following the back-to-back Ridgecrest earthquakes felt in Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has called on neighborhood councils and the city to better prepare local communit…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Monday that 62 current and eight former Border Patrol employees are under internal investigation following revelations of a …
Planning to travel abroad this summer? Before you go, keep in mind that Medicare usually does not cover health care services or supplies while you’re traveling outside the United States.
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