Witness accounts from the Thousand Oaks massacre paint a portrait of heroism that often goes unnoticed in mass shootings. Most of the people who died in the Nov. 7 shooting did so while trying to save others.
While a gunman fired dozens of rounds inside Borderline Bar and Grill, patrons hid in the attic, smashed windows and hunkered beneath the bar to try to survive.
Meteorologists expect cold temperatures and wind gusts as strong as 75 mph in portions of Southern California on New Year’s Eve, Monday, Dec. 31. The strongest gusts should be isolated to the foothills and mountains of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties, forecasters said Sunday. Valleys and coasts in Los…
Music filled Pasadena City College’s Robinson Stadium this weekend as the marching bands performing in Tuesday’s Tournament of Roses Parade played for sold-out audiences. The 39th Annual Bandfest featured 20 marching bands across Saturday and Sunday. Bands came from near and far, including from Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Canada, Sweden and Japan. One of the…
A pastor at a Los Gatos church died after suffering a heart attack while on a snowboarding trip with his family in the Sierra, church leaders announced Sunday. Craig Jutila was the pastor of family ministries at Venture Christian Church. He was 53. Craig Jutila (Photo courtesy Venture Christian Church) “We are grieving the loss of…
A fire engulfed a single-story house in flames, displacing 11 Garden Grove residents on Sunday, Dec. 30 The fire started sometime before 7:20 a.m. on the 11500 block of Vicilia Street, the Garden Grove Fire Department said in a statement. It said a resident reported waking up to the smell of smoke and finding signs of…
NEW YORK — It’s an Auld Lang Syne of the times: For the first time, a police drone will be keeping watch over the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square. The unmanned eye-in-the-sky is the latest wrinkle in the New York City Police Department’s ever-evolving plan to keep revelers — and “Rockin’…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — At Granny Shaffer’s restaurant in Joplin, Missouri, owner Mike Wiggins is reprinting the menus to reflect the 5, 10 or 20 cents added to each item. A two-egg breakfast will cost an extra dime, at $7.39. The price of a three-piece fried chicken dinner will go up 20 cents, to $8.78….
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump long ago backed away from his campaign pledge to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, his outgoing chief of staff said, as the president’s demand for “border security” funding triggered a partial government shutdown with no end in sight. John Kelly, who will leave his post Wednesday after a…
I grew up in an affectionate, but uncommunicative Chinese household. But food opened the door to my parents’ memories in ways that words never did.
