San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito was injured in a two-car collision Wednesday evening in West Hollywood. The collision occurred around 7:50 p.m. near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Sunset Plaza Drive. According to Lt. Lawrence Del Mese, with the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station, Zito was making a left turn from Sunset Boulevard when [...] [...more]
Anyone who has ever been to a Lakers championship parade or a protest has likely witnessed them galloping down the street or helping with crowd control. While the officers of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Mounted Unit may look like a relic from the old west, they are some of the most elite officers patrolling [...] [...more]
We’ve all heard of bath salts as wonderful therapeutic aids, but according to Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz, 5th District, new lines of bath salts are starting to be used as narcotics and the effects nationwide are disturbing. “These aren’t your grandmother’s bath salts,” Koretz said. In Mississippi, one user slit his face and [...] [...more]
The results of the 2009-10 FITNESSGRAM, a physical fitness test administered to 1.32 million students in California, were released last week and the results were not encouraging, with only a third of students meeting the Healthy Fitness Zone (HFZ). According to the results, 28 percent of 5th graders, 34 percent of 7th graders and 38 [...] [...more]
The rain that has fallen in Los Angeles this year has inspired the Hollywood Beautification Team (HBT) and the City of Los Angeles to join forces on a pilot program that could reduce people’s reliance on city water sources. The program, which involves retrofitting the city’s trashcans into rain barrels that collect rainwater for later [...] [...more]
The ongoing and contentious battle between the Hollywood Farmers’ Market and the Los Angeles Film School continues, as the market’s street closure city permit is set to expire on April 12, leaving the future of the popular market in question. “Right now we are still waiting to hear from Councilman Garcetti’s office and the Public [...] [...more]
The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center’s (LAGLC) board of directors approved on Monday a plan to remodel the center’s medical clinic. The plan would add four exam rooms and enlarge the clinic’s laboratory. The plan also allowed for the hiring of an additional doctor, which came just in the nick of time. “We were [...] [...more]
Several local merchants have recently complained that shoplifting is on the rise. And Los Angeles, the country’s largest retail market, definitely feels the pinch of sticky fingers. According to the National Retail Federation, retail crime costs businesses an estimated $30 billion a year in stolen property and lost revenue. It is estimated that one in [...] [...more]
When Fairfax High School senior Nelson Echeverria joined the school’s poetry club as a sophomore, he wasn’t comfortable speaking in front of people and didn’t feel confident about his writing skills. “I wasn’t a very good writer at first, and I had the worst stage fright. I would get up on stage and just laugh [...] [...more]
A group of people in West Hollywood will walk barefoot from Plummer Park to the Whole Foods Market at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue on April 5 as part of “One Day Without Shoes”, an event designed to raise funds and awareness for programs assisting people in developing countries. The walk [...] [...more]
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