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I guess you folks haven't figured out that Santa Clarita IS Valencia, Canyon Country, Saugus, and Newhall. It's all been incorporated since 1987.
Snow levels drop to 1,300 feet, flakes falling in Valencia, Santa Clarita
Motorists on the Grapevine may have been frustrated by the snow, but a little farther south -– in Valencia -– residents were delighted by the unusual sight of falling snowflakes. The snow level had dropped to 1,300 feet with flurries falling in Valencia, Canyon Country and Santa Clarita. One t...
How did the guy know who she was if she didn't use her name and hasn't been photographed before?
Restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila photographed and kicked out of Red Medicine
Our restaurant critic has been unmasked. S. Irene Virbila, the L.A. Times’ restaurant critic for the last 16 years, was visiting Red Medicine restaurant in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night when she was approached by managing partner Noah Ellis, who took Virbila’s picture without her permission a...
They are $200,000 in debt and they have a personal trainer coming to their house?
Former Food TV chef insisted that wife's would-be hit man not harm dogs, give them treats
Former Food TV chef Juan Carlos Cruz told a homeless man whom he hired to kill his wife to avoid harming his two dogs and consider strangulation with pantyhose to avoid leaving a "bloody mess," say newly released court documents obtained by The Times. The documents show Cruz elaborately planne...
Guy does everything possible to himself so that people will look at him and then he is shocked that they do so? Grow up.
L.A. food stylist pulled from flight for 'Atom Bomb' tattoo
It was the Tweet heard 'round the L.A. food world. Noted Los Angeles food stylist Adam C. Pearson was settling into his seat aboard a Delta flight Saturday morning when the flight attendant tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to come to the front of the plane. His first thought? "I'm gett...
I sure wish I could get some of these critters!
Before finally convincing our city that the 70' palm on the parkway was a disaster waiting to happen (in the 2007 fires, burning palm fronds led to the loss of 13 houses on our street) and it's removal, the tree has sprouted hundreds of little palms. They are impervious to Round Up and yanking them seems to make more sprout. My kingdom for a red palm weevil!
Wanted: the red palm weevil, tree killer
The red palm weevil, an insect widely considered to be the biggest threat to palm trees worldwide, has been discovered in Laguna Beach — the first time the Southeast Asian pest has been detected in the United States. The discovery was made in August, when a tree trimmer removed a dying Canary...
I think you need to learn how to write, or at least to proofread your work - this makes it seems as though the relative shot the guy!
"...was found fatally shot by a relative about 5:45 a.m."
Race car driver found fatally shot in El Monte auto shop
A renowned car racer and auto shop owner was discovered shot to death inside his El Monte business early Wednesday after he failed to return home the night before, investigators said. Hector Urias, 48, who is a regular fixture on the race car circuit, was found fatally shot by a relative abo...
Hah - take a look at the woman in the front of the picture with the LV bag that costs over $1,000! No wonder she can't afford a flu shot.
County clinics gave swine flu vaccine to anyone who showed up, even the low-risk and insured
L.A. County health officials said they provided H1N1 shots to anyone who came to their clinics over the last few days, even those who were not in the "priority group" at greatest risk of getting sick. When the clinics opened last week, officials said they were targeting the uninsured and those m...
I lived in San Francisco and was heading home from a job fair in San Jose. I was on the 280 near Daly City when it felt like my car got 4 flat tires. I pulled over as did everyone driving near me. We all got out and looked at our cars and each other and I wondered what the heck had just happened. It wasn't until I exited the freeway and started seeing all the damage that I put it together.
I worked in Sausalito and our building was right on the bay, when the aftershocks hit, we could see the seismic waves in the water heading toward us.
Loma Prieta earthquake was 20 years ago -- where were you?
Twenty years ago two 50-foot sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed because of the Loma Prieta earthquake. That wasn't the only damage. Indeed, 63 people were killed, about 3,800 people were injured, and the 6.9 magnitude quake caused over $10 billion in damage across the B...
Americans do not have the right to go trampling where ever they like. If these women had obeyed the rules, they would not have had a problem. Who paid for this mission and the private plane? I'm going to be pissed if I find out if was we taxpayers.
Freed journalists arrive at Burbank airport
Former President Clinton and the two California journalists whose freedom from a North Korean prison he helped secure arrived early this morning at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, where they were greeted by dozens of family and friends. Their private plane landed about 6 a.m. and immediately...
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