VAN NUYS (CNS) – A woman was found stabbed to death in a Van Nuys alley on Tuesday, March 24, after her boyfriend called authorities and said the couple had been attacked and he had lost consciousness from a stab wound, according to police who, this afternoon, called the man a “person of interest” in the […]
Van Nuys Stabbing Victim Found in Alley
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22nd Annual César E. Chávez March this Sunday
The United Farm Workers (UFW) flag will once again be carried proudly in the Northeast San Fernando Valley as scores of people, including local politicians and students take part in the annual César E. Chávez March for Justice this Sunday, March 29. The flag — first designed by Chávez in 1969 — holds the Eagle (the […]
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Merits of Raising Minimum Wage Debated
LOS ANGELES — Economists sparred over the effects of a proposal to raise the minimum wage to as high as $15.25 per hour in Los Angeles during a city council committee hearing attended by hundreds of business people and activists. The city council is considering raising the minimum wage from $9 an hour to $13.25 […]
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Chief Parks Retires
SFPD Chief Robert Parks (middle) is congratulated on his retirement by the San Fernando City Council. Parks was celebrated for his 30 years of service with the department here. At a dinner in his honor, attended by approximately 500 people, Parks thanked family, friends, colleagues and city officials for “supporting my appointment as chief of […]
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Granada Hills Charter High School Wins 36th Annual California Academic Decathlon
Los Angeles— Granada Hills Charter High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has won the 2015 California Academic Decathlon competition. Continuing its winning reign, the San Fernando Valley school previously won the state and national decathlons from 2011-2013. The team scored 59040.3 points out of a possible 66,000. Members of the winning […]
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Radio Personality Joe McDonnell Dies
GRANADA HILLS (CNS) — A funeral service was held Wednesday, March 25, in Granada Hills for longtime Southern California radio sports talk show host and reporter Joe McDonnell. The service was held at St. John Baptist De La Salle Church. McDonnell died March 13 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. The cause of death has […]
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Murder Conviction Upheld
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A state appeals court panel has upheld a man’s conviction for fatally beating his then-infant son’s maternal grandmother and attacking his ex-girlfriend with a pipe in Sylmar two years ago. The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense’s contention that the trial court erred in admitting […]
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LAFD Lags Behind in 2015 Recruiting Goals
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Los Angeles Fire Department is falling behind on its goal of hiring 165 new firefighters this year, after adopting a new method of whittling down the high number of prospective candidates to a more manageable group, fire officials told a City Council committee. The department had to delay a training […]
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Valley College Opens New Community Center
Los Angeles Valley College celebrated the opening of the college’s new Community Services Center (CSC), a beautiful new building that will house the college’s Community Services Department, Gymnastics Center and the Monarch Summer Camp, and will include a variety of learning and athletic spaces. The CSC is built to high sustainability standards. “The building we […]
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Impaction: What Goes Around Comes Around
On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet, in cooperation with the CIA, led a military coup assassinating constitutionally elected Salvador Allende and unleashing a reign of terror that in the first year conservatively murdered over 11,000 people. By 1982 neoliberal wunderkind Milton Friedman declared that dictator Pinochet “has supported a fully free-market economy as a […]