LOS ANGELES (CNS) - L.A County’s coronavirus toll today stood at 2,136 cases and 37 deaths.
Drive-thru testing for Coronavirus began Tuesday, March 24.
Having played softball from age 11 through 48, including three years semiprofessionally in the women’s league featured in the movie “A League of their Own,” Virginia Barragan likes to keep active.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has temporarily suspended enforcement efforts to close gun stores during the coronavirus outbreak.
Griselda is having a problem.
It’s been roughly one week since Americans were urged to self-quarantine and practice social distancing in an effort to combat the spread of coronavirus. “Lockdown” hit me in the middle of wha…
The video is brief — 43 seconds — but raucous.
Since older Americans are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus (COVID-19), I wanted to let you know the steps we’re taking to help our Medicare beneficiaries cope with the pandemic.
The early morning hours felt bitterly cold in the San Fernando Valley. At least it was not raining on the volunteers standing inside parking lots at San Fernando and Kennedy high schools on We…
The Los Angeles Unified School District, in partnership with the Red Cross, will continue to provide nutritious meals to all students who need them during the temporary closure of schools.
It’s easy to feel sympathy for Maritza Leyva.
Following the course set by the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles county, the City of San Fernando voted unanimously to declare a state of emergency during their council meeting Monday, March 16.
You can see it in the long lines to enter the stores. You can see it on the empty shelves. You can see it in the “Closed” signs at your favorite restaurant, bar, movie theater, fitness center …
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Counterfeit COVID-19 test kits were intercepted by US Customs and Border Protection officers when they arrived at the LAX International Mail Facility, according to authorities.
Joeleen and Miguel Medina were at home with their kids with they heard Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement of the closing of restaurants, bars and gyms statewide because of the pandemic outbreak…
By taking advantage of a Cyber Monday offer last November, Johnny Baca purchased a super cheap ticket ($520) to travel on April 22 to the other side of the world — the paradisiacal island of B…
Invitations and instructions for the 2020 census have been mailed to homes across the country. All residents are encouraged to respond by filling out a census form by mail, online or by phone.
The family-owned business Casa Torres, which has been operating banquet halls and restaurants in San Fernando and Sylmar for more than 30 years, is making its meats and produce available for p…
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Cal State University Northridge President Dianne Harrison announced Wednesday, March 11, that 13 students who attended the AIPAC conference have agreed to “self-isolate for…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Los Angeles World Airports has announced that work has been completed on the $29.7 million, 14-month project to reconstruct Taxiway B at Van Nuys Airport.
GENEVA (AP) — Expressing alarm both about mounting infections and inadequate government responses, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden decisively won Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy four years ago. T…
Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles has proven to be an organization to be reckoned with, as the recent passage of key police reform legislation including Measure R, the Alternatives to Incarcer…
(CNS) — Los Angeles County is launching a new campaign to recruit more Latino foster parents.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Former Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitchell Englander has been arrested on federal charges of lying to the FBI during a probe of his alleged acceptance of cash, female…
Whether it was their first time or a repeat outing, the San Fernando High School students who took part in the LA Marathon 2020 presented by Asics on Sunday, March 8, expressed various reactio…
Back in 2000, Jim Davis was told by doctors that his knees were shot and that he probably shouldn’t run anymore. And he definitely should stop doing the annual Los Angeles Marathon.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that recent protests against rising killings of women in Mexico will not change his government’s long-term, ground-up appr…
By City News Service and the San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol
California State University, Northridge announced the start of its 2020 free tax preparation initiative for veterans. CSUN, with support from Citi, has trained dozens of military veterans as I…
Talent often runs in families and the inspirational exhibit Yolanda Gonzalez: Sueño de Familia/Dream of Famly is a mighty example of a generational family of artists documented starting wit…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to 41 months behind bars for his role in a cross-border fraud scheme that duped elderly residents of Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside …
At press time, Los Angeles City officials had declared a health state of emergency after six new cases of coronavirus were discovered in the county. When contacted, Marathon officials said Sun…
Supporters of Measure R gathered for a celebration on Super Tuesday for their long fought win. At a private home, they offered a healing atmosphere to let their shoulders down, even if it’s on…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Stressing that they were acting out of “an abundance of caution’’ and not panic, Los Angeles city and county officials declared a state of emergency for the novel coronavi…
Noted pathologist and molecular virologist James Robb, MD, is warning the general public of the strong possibility of the coronavirus being “widespread in the US” by late March and April.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Vanessa Bryant is expressing dismay and anger over reports that some Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies took photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and other victims at th…
As concerns regarding the spread of Coronavirus 2019, also known as COVID-19, increase within our communities, it’s critical that people are armed with facts and helpful information to not onl…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Sheriff Alex Villanueva says that eight deputies were involved in taking and sharing photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and other victims at the scene of the helicopter c…
As the national election inches closer, California State University, Northridge political scientist Jason Morín has a warning for both political parties: Don’t take the Latino vote for granted.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Races for two seats on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education are heading for November runoffs, although in one district, it’s still uncertain which can…
The development came just hours after a resurgent Biden scored Super Tuesday victories from Texas to Massachusetts, revitalizing a presidential bid that was teetering on the edge of disaster j…
The California Department of Parks and Recreation has awarded $6.9 million to construct Allegheny Park in a park-poor Sun Valley neighborhood on more than a half-acre of land secured by LA Cou…
An estimated 1,300 students of Pacoima Charter Elementary School took part in the LAPD “Just Say No!” program and signed a pledge against drugs, gangs, crime, and/or bullying during a rally fo…
The San Fernando High girls’ wrestling team was edged out by James Logan High of Union City for the 2020 state CIF championship. Logan High finished with 94 points, to 90 for San Fernando High…
LA City Council President Nury Martinez joined by developer Izek Shomof and his family, celebrated the grand opening of renovated Panorama Tower on Feb. 27. The tower was originally designed a…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A Glendale man who defrauded banks out of $2.1 million by conspiring to steal the identities of at least 11 dentists, opening sham dentist offices, and filing fraudulent cl…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to extend the city's ban on private companies operating or constructing migrant detention centers or similar facilities for 1…
California is one of 14 states heading to the polls on March 3 for “Super Tuesday,” when primaries across the country could decide who the leading Democratic presidential candidate will be.
When reading the poem “Mother to Son,” written by Langston Hughes in 1922, one can sense what was weighing him down emotionally. The Jim Crow laws of America were eating away at the souls of b…
California State University, Northridge will be home to one of the 1,000 new vote centers across Los Angeles County that are open to the county’s voters in the days before the March 3 primary …
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At age 22, Chaquitta Boyce got in a car with her cousin — a gang member — which contained (unbeknownst to her) stolen property.
San Fernando Gardens in Pacoima, the only public housing project in the San Fernando Valley, will receive a boost in protection with the addition of 10 LAPD officers and one supervisor. San Fe…
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