What if a sudden, debilitating illness, fraud or economic downturn affected your senior family member’s retirement, estate or long-term care issues? Would you be prepared to take over? If the answer is no, you’re not alone. According to 2013 research (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/18/as-population-ages-more-americans-becoming-caregivers/) from the Pew Research Center, four in 10 U.S. adults are caring for a […]
Making Sure Loved Ones Are Prepared for Their Retirement Years
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San Fernando Looks to Restore Championship Ways
The sun is bearing down on the San Fernando High baseball field on this unseasonably warm February afternoon. But Coach Armando Gomez, sitting in a dugout as the players get ready for practice, isn’t feeling any heat physically or metaphorically. Nor should he. The Tigers may have tumbled back to Earth last season after winning […]
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CSUN’s Commerce of Creativity Hosts World Leader of Nonviolent Social Change
The acclaimed civil rights activist the Rev. James Lawson will explore how we, as members of the human family, are capable of envisioning and creating a more viable world –– a world of equity, liberty and justice for all –– at the next installment of California State University, Northridge’s Commerce of Creativity Distinguished Speaker Series […]
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Civil Rights Legend’s Daughter to Speak at CSUN
Donzaleigh Abernathy, the daughter of the late Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, co-founder of the civil rights movement, will speak on Wednesday, Feb. 25, as part of California State University, Northridge’s Black History Month celebration. Abernathy, an actress and author, will discuss “The American Civil Rights Movement, Selma and the Fight for the Right to Vote,” […]
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National Champion — Rafael Delgado Jr.
National Champion — Rafael Delgado Jr., 14, a Birmingham High student, proudly displays some of the championship belts he has won as an amateur boxer. The latest belt, draped around his shoulders, was earned at the National Silver Gloves Tournament in Independence, MO, when Delgado defeated Dominque Francis of Opa Locka, FL to win the […]
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Suspects Sought
MISSION HILLS (CNS) – Police today circulated security video of three men who make up the “Stand-In-A-Wall” gang and who are wanted for stealing money from cash registers in businesses. “When you see it on video, it’s quite obvious,” said Detective Samer Issa of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Mission Station. “Two of the suspects […]
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UCLA Bacteria
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – More than 100 patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center may have been infected by a potentially deadly “superbug” bacteria, hospital officials said today. Seven UCLA patients have been infected by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, bacteria, and it may have been “a contributing factor in the death of two patients,” according […]
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Chavez Ravine- Una Vez Más
El grupo teatral Culture Clash lo ha hecho de nuevo. “Chavez Ravine An L.A. Revival”, que muestra el doloroso desalojo de familias mexicoamericanas tiene a la audiencia riéndose, aplaudiendo y carcajeándose, no de este bochornoso momento en la historia, pero sobre la completa relación de amor y odio que todavía existe hoy con el estadio […]
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Recordando a Chavez Ravine
He sido un fanático de los Dodgers desde 1955. Mis amigos y yo estábamos muy entusiasmados cuando los Dodgers anunciaron que se mudaban y jugarían la temporada de 1958 en Los Angeles. Mi padre me llevó a verlos jugar en el Coliseo y ví a Duke Snider pegar un home run. Pero hubo un lado […]
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Calentando el Cuerpo y el Corazón de los Indigentes
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – En lo que se suponía sería un día de anticipación y celebración por la expansión de un programa parra proteger a más personas de la deportación, autoridades electas, líderes sindicales y activistas pro inmigrantes de Los Angeles se unieron para protestar contra el fallo de un juez federal para poner un […]