Click for a larger image. LOS ANGELES — Thanksgiving travelers hoping to return home to Los Angeles or to other cities through Chicago are seeing their flights canceled Monday morning due to high winds and blizzard conditions in the Windy City, according to flight data. Ten flights from Chicago to LAX were canceled, according to…
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft’s six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains. The InSight lander aimed for an afternoon touchdown, as anxiety built among those involved in the $1 billion international…
By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME — Italian film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci, who won Oscars with “The Last Emperor” and whose erotic drama “Last Tango in Paris” enthralled and shocked the world, died Monday. He was 77. Bertolucci’s press office, Punto e Virgola, confirmed the death in an email to The Associated Press. Italy’s state-run RAI said Bertolucci…
Jose Razo is principal at Telfair Elementary School in Pacoima, the L.A. Unified campus that has more students classified as homeless than any other. For him, teaching these kids is personal, because years ago, he lived as so many of them do today.
At the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park for senior citizens in Paradise on Sunday, more than 100 search and rescue workers in white jumpsuits and gas masks combed through the rubble with shovels and rakes. The surrounding pine trees were singed, ringing a neighborhood where every home had been reduced…
It has become a bit tougher for Fullerton’s Hunt branch library to be modified or demolished. The Fullerton City Council on Tuesday, Nov. 23, unanimously voted to designate the library as a local historical landmark. Any significant modifications, additions or demolitions to the building will now need to be approved by the city’s landmarks commission….
