Joe Rodriguez was a teenager when he first embraced the slur. For years, Mexican Americans of low social status like him were called Chicanos. In March 1968, the 15-year-old sophomore joined hundreds of other Garfield High School students in a protest against discrimination and unequal conditions…
The 20-foot chrome head of Vladimir Lenin springs from the Mojave Desert. Follow a driveway past a small cyan-colored lake ringed with palms and stocked with carp, past prefabricated homes and an artist shed made of 17 wooden doors nailed together, and there is Chen Weiming, fitting treads on a…
By 1:30 a.m. the cricket matches at the West Covina ballpark were in full swing. Farrukh Zafar stood in front of the wicket and gripped the flat bat made of willow wood, his eyes glued on the bowler who stood 22 yards away. It was Zafar’s job to protect the wicket, the bowler’s job to…
A man was killed Sunday night when he was hit by an Amtrak passenger train near North Hollywood, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Spokesman Brian Humphrey said the train, which had 126 passengers aboard and was headed for San Diego, struck the man about 7:15 p.m. near the Coldwater Canyon…
Ian set off the security alarm at John Wayne Airport and had to be patted down. He responded by kissing the TSA agent. It was OK, though. Ian is an 8-month-old puppy learning to be a guide dog for the blind. On Saturday June 1, 2019, 11 labradors ranging from 6 to 17 months old…
A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Sunday afternoon three miles from Glen Avon, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:36 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was four miles from Jurupa Valley, four miles…
A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Sunday afternoon eight miles from Perris, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 1:04 p.m. PDT at a depth of 6.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was eight miles from both Menifee and San Jacinto. In the last 10…
A low-pressure system drew a deep marine layer over Southern California on Sunday, with a flash flood watch for the Antelope Valley and some Los Angeles County mountains, the National Weather Service said. Monday’s forecast was for drier conditions. The National Weather Service projected mostly cloudy conditions in downtown Los Angeles in the morning, followed…
Ladies and gentleman, the stench has arrived. The rare “corpse flower” has blossomed at Cal State Long Beach, the university announced early Sunday morning, June 2. And it does indeed stink, according to Brian Thorson, the botanical curator and botany technician in the university’s Department of Biological Sciences — and the rare flower’s caretake. “Yes,…
A suspect was wounded and later arrested after he confronted an off-duty sheriff’s deputy and his family in the parking lot of the Galleria at Tyler in Riverside and tried to rob them at gunpoint, police said Sunday. Neither the deputy, whose agency was not immediately identified, nor his family, nor bystanders in the parking…
