Officials from the Augusta National Golf Club admitted women for the first time in the private club’s 80-year history last week, and the announcement was celebrated locally by those who fought to make Los Angeles’ private clubs more inclusive in the 1980s. Representatives of Augusta National, where the Masters Tournament is held annually, on Aug. [...] [...more]
Tobacco companies are circumventing federal laws enacted to prevent young people from smoking by marketing flavored cigars, according to Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California), who held a press conference in front of Fairfax High School Monday to call for tighter regulations. Waxman said the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act was signed into law in [...] [...more]
Why did the congresswoman cross the road? To get inside her new district lines. As a result of federal redistricting, U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-California) may need to move her Los Angeles office across Wilshire Boulevard to keep her L.A. headquarters inside her district boundaries. The California Citizens Redistricting Commission finalized its new Congressional boundaries [...] [...more]
A mother and her two children were killed in a head-on collision in Hollywood Wednesday morning that occurred in the 800 block of N. Highland Ave. Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Bruce Borihahn said the collision occurred around 7:25 a.m. just north of Willoughby Avenue. A sole male driver in a grey Infinity was driving [...] [...more]
A mural depicting male and female sex organs painted last weekend in an alley behind the 7900 block of 3rd Street has been deemed offensive by some nearby residents, prompting calls for it to be removed. The mural was painted by artist Annie Preece behind The Proper Barbershop. Preece, who described herself as a local [...] [...more]
A Blue Line train operator reportedly failed to stop as required before colliding Monday with a Metro bus at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and San Pedro Street, injuring 32 people. Metro spokesman Marc Littman said the collision occurred at 6:56 a.m. as the Blue Line train was heading southbound from downtown Los Angeles toward [...] [...more]
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, 3rd District, announced last week that he will not run for mayor of Los Angeles. The race currently includes two Los Angeles City Council members, the city’s controller and a radio host. Yaroslavsky said he will be retiring from politics at the end of his current term, which ends [...] [...more]
According to Congressman Adam Schiff (D-California), the U.S. must diversify its energy sources in order to reduce the effects of climate change and improve the nation’s security. During a clean energy discussion hosted by Operation Free at the National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles (NCJW/LA) on Friday, Schiff and Seth Jacobson, of the Center for [...] [...more]
The heavy rains that fell in the Tampa, Florida region on Monday did not dampen the spirits of attendees to the Republican National Convention, which will culminate Thursday evening when Mitt Romney is expected to be selected as the Republican candidate for president. Although events were cancelled Monday because of the foul weather generated in [...] [...more]
The Los Angeles Police Department’s Bomb Squad recovered a movie prop Monday from an apartment belonging to a shooting suspect near Sunset Boulevard. Officers initially thought the prop was a stick of dynamite, and several blocks around the apartment in the 6600 block of Leland Way were cordoned off and evacuated until around 8 p.m., [...] [...more]
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