Last Tuesday Was the First Day for LAUSD Those lazy, carefree days of summer vacation ended for more than 650,000 students who are started the 2014-15 school year on Tuesday, August 12. Thousands of children will walk and bike to campuses in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Others will take a bus, and some […]
School Police Emphasize Safety First As Students Go Back To School
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How to Curb Distraction during Family Time: No Cell Phone Day
5 Tips for Enriching Bonds from Musical Maestro Delfeayo Marsalis If you’re like jazz trombonist and music producer Delfeayo Marsalis, a member of the acclaimed Marsalis family from New Orleans, you appreciate the “old-school” ways of doing things. For Marsalis, that means doing without automated music created and played at the push of a button, […]
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CSUN Biotech Senior Attends Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship for Summer
Spending a summer away from home is often a highlight of college life, but rarely does it involve participating in seminars and lab research at an Ivy League university across the country. For Caroline Arellano-Garcia, a senior biotechnology major at California State University, Northridge, such an experience only enhanced her college years. Arellano-Garcia is one […]
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Rainbow Pack Brightens Students Return to School
Organization Donates Thousands of Backpacks for Pacoima students “Thank you so much rainbow pack for doing this for my community. And that you for my son’s backpack. He loved it. But a special thanks to Riley Gantt from all our hearts,” wrote Sonnya Farias in the Facebook page of Rainbow Pack. On Saturday, Aug. 9, […]
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A Service for Vinny
A memorial service was held for three year old Vincent “Vinny” Quintana at the Living Hope Church Saturday, Aug. 9. The child died tragically after climbing into the family’s hot car. The large church was filled with hundreds of family members and friends. A family member explained the difficulty with coming to terms with his […]
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SFPD Seizes 243 Marijuana Plants
San Fernando Police Department officers shut down a marijuana growing operation discovered in the 800 block of Arroyo Avenue. Lt. Nichole Hanchett, SFPD Detective Bureau commander, said officers were responding to a burglar alarm on Aug. 7 when they saw a door had been forced opened. After entering the building, investigators did not find any […]
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Raid at the San Fernando Swap Meet Nets Arrest
Authorities Target Vendors Of Illegal Prescription Drugs “A bunch of police cars showed up and blocked all the exits. They went in as if they already knew where to go. They went right to the people who sell medicine from Mexico.” That’s how one witness described the arrival of police at the San Fernando Swap […]
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One Dead, at Least One Injured after Officer Involved Shooting in the City of San Fernando
Investigation Underway Gabriel Lopez-Gonzalez, 22, a resident of Van Nuys, has been identified as the man who was killed in an officer-involved shooting in the city of San Fernando on Tuesday, Aug. 12. In an interview with the San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol, Lt.. Dave Coleman of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau said the […]
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Growing Older, Not Alone
If you’re growing older, you’re not alone. Some sobering statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services highlight the explosive growth of the elderly population in America. For a start, those over 65 numbered 41.4 million in 2011, an increase of 6.3 million, or 18 percent, since 2000. Of course, young adults just […]