Granada Hills High School has been one of the Valley’s top competitors in state and national prep academic decathlons, and the charter school is already showing it will be tough to beat again in 2015. The Highlanders had a historic team performance at the recent Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Academic Decathlon, scoring 59,167.1 […]
Granada Hills High Produces Record Score in Academic Decathlon
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Celebration Turns to Protest As President’s Immigration Executive Order Put On Hold
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — On what was supposed to be a day of anticipation for an expansion of a program to protect more people from deportation, elected officials were joined by union leaders in Los Angeles to decry a federal judge’s ruling putting the president’s executive immigration orders on hold. “The president’s policy rightfully focuses […]
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Bus Tickets
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Transit users in Los Angeles can now pay for DASH and Commuter Express bus fares using a smartphone app, it was announced. The LA Mobile app, which can be downloaded on iPhone and Android systems, allows riders to use credit or debit cards to buy tickets for the buses, which are […]
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Immolation
VAN NUYS (CNS) – A man who set himself on fire Feb. 17 in the restroom of a Starbucks in Van Nuys was hospitalized in extremely critical condition, authorities said. Shortly after the man entered the restroom, “bystanders heard an explosive sound in the area, and the patient staggered from the bathroom engulfed in flames, […]
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Stevenson Shooting
SANTA CLARITA (CNS) – The coroner’s office has released the names of a man and his wife who were killed in the parking lot of a shopping center in Stevenson Ranch in an apparent murder-suicide. They were 56-year-old Ismael Castro and 51-year-old Lisa Marie Gastelum, said coroner’s Lt. Larry Dietz. Their community of residence had […]
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“KIN Moves” to Help Ailing CSUN Professor
The Department of Kinesiology at Cal State University, Northridge has shown incredible teamwork, due to the networks of both students and faculty, to help a beloved professor. On February 5th, Dr. Steven Loy started a movement called “KIN Moves” for a dear friend and colleague, Shane Frehlich. Dr. Frehlich was the chairman of the kinesiology […]
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CSUN Proposes Admission Requirement Changes Beginning Fall 2016
California State University, Northridge officials announced plans to change its admissions criteria through the limited use of academic, freshman and transfer-level impaction for undergraduate programs beginning in fall 2016. Four public hearings on the proposal have been scheduled for next month to seek community input and comment. While CSUN is seeking full-program impaction, university officials […]
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Making Sure Loved Ones Are Prepared for Their Retirement Years
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 […]
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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 […]