The ReelAbilities Film Festival showcases films starring and made by people with disabilities. Many disabled actors, writers, directors and other crew want to succeed in Hollywood. They say the door’s open a crack and they plan to push hard.
In the county jails, chaplains from particular faiths struggle or work long hours to meet the demand of inmates.
Santa Ana winds have weakened considerably since the middle of the week, but the National Weather Service is warning that the air is still dangerously dry.
A pedestrian who was struck by a pickup truck in Seal Beach on Thursday, Oct. 31, later died at a hospital, officials said Friday. The crash happened in the area of Oakmont Road and El Dorado Drive at about 10 a.m., Seal Beach Police Department officials said in a news release. The man who was…
As a week of wildfires and frantic evacuations ramps down, authorities extended a red flag warning through Saturday afternoon in the interior mountains of Los Angeles County and the Santa Clarita Valley. There also was a small chance the warning would reach into Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters expect winds of 10 to…
Southern California Edison’s weather-related preemptive power outages were mostly over by Friday afternoon, Nov. 1. About 625 customers in Ventura County, where the Maria fire was raging, still had their power turned off as of 2 p.m., but the last outage remaining elsewhere — which had affected about 60 customers near the wind-prone base of…
HOLLYWOOD — Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded not guilty in Boston Friday to new bribery charges filed against them in the college admissions scandal, according to federal court documents. Loughlin and Giannulli, a fashion designer, were among 11 parents charged last week in an indictment returned by a grand jury in…
The last evacuation orders were lifted Friday tied to the Getty fire in the Sepulveda Pass, with the blaze staying within its footprint in recent days and the containment growing to 74% as firefighters took advantage of improved weather conditions. Winds are expected to just blow 10 to 15 mph in coming days, although low…
The Hillside fire in north San Bernardino was 70% contained Friday morning, Nov. 1, as San Bernardino County fire and San Bernardino National Forest crews will continue to focus on mop up throughout the day. The blaze, which ignited early Thursday morning near Highway 18 and Lower Waterman Canyon, held at 200 acres overnight. At…
The Rampart Boulevard offramp and onramp onto the 101 Freeway remain closed as police investigate the crash.
