LOS ANGELES – The first Abraham Lincoln Remembrance Day since 2020 will be held Sunday at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood, featuring a recitation of the Gettysburg Address by a Lincoln tribute artist. The program on the 214th anniversary of the birth of the 16th president will begin at 10 a.m. and also include an appearance by a Mary Todd Lincoln tribute artist. The ceremony is organized by the Los Angeles National Cemetery Support Foundation, which encourages all to attend, particularly students and teachers to be reminded that Lincoln utilized reading to rise from poverty and to learn…
Author: City News Service
LOS ANGELES – Members of Los Angeles County Urban Search and Rescue teams who flew to earthquake-ravaged Turkey this week helped pull a woman and her son out of a collapsed building alive, authorities said Saturday. We can hear a woman’s voice in the rubble in Turkey. She has a baby. Trying to get to her now. @LASDHQ pic.twitter.com/nFkRvENj2n— Mike Leum (@Resqman) February 11, 2023 Representatives from the sheriff’s and Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Urban Search and Rescue teams were involved when the 52-year-old woman and her 18-year-old son were freed from the building that collapsed following the 7.8-magnitude…
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Kings will retire Dustin Brown’s No. 23 and unveil a statue of the franchise’s career games played leader outside Crypto.com Arena before Saturday evening’s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. A banner with Brown’s number will be raised to the rafters during an on-ice ceremony, which will feature several Kings legends and former teammates of Brown. The statue unveiling will follow and be shown in the arena on the center-hung high-definition scoreboard and video display screens. Both ceremonies will be broadcast live on Bally Sports West. Fans attending the game are encouraged to be in…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A jet being towed from a gate at Los Angeles International Airport struck a shuttle bus, injuring four people. Two shuttle passengers, the bus driver and the tug driver of the jet were hospitalized Friday in stable to moderate conditions, according to Nicholas Prange of the Los Angeles Fire Department.. A worker on board the jet was treated at the scene but declined to be taken to a hospital, Prange said. Firefighters were called to the airport at 9:59 p.m. where they learned the jet was being towed from an airport gate to a parking area…
LONG BEACH – A man suspected in a fatal stabbing near MacArthur Park is in police custody, authorities said Friday. Members of the LAPD/FBI Fugitive Task Force arrested Alexander Adams in Long Beach on Wednesday on suspicion of the Jan. 9 killing of Nicholas Garcia. He was booked on one count of murder, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. LAPD officers responded at 3:15 p.m. on Jan. 9 to the 600 block of South Alvarado Street regarding an assault with a deadly weapon and upon their arrival found Garcia suffering from a stab wound to the chest. Homicide detectives…
LOS ANGELES – There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing will grow to $67 million. One ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, was sold in South Carolina and is worth $1 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game. The numbers drawn Friday were 20, 29, 30, 52, 58 and the Mega number was 19. The estimated jackpot was $50 million. The drawing was the third since the last time a ticket with all six…
PALMDALE – Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a suspect in Palmdale, authorities said Saturday. Deputies from the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station were called at approximately 10:21 p.m. Friday to the 37000 block of Oxford Drive regarding a domestic violence call, said Lt. Patricia Thomas. During their investigation of the incident, the suspect moved toward them with an edged weapon and was shot by deputies. The suspect was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The weapon was recovered at the scene, authorities said. There were no further details available. Anyone with information about this shooting was asked…
LOS ANGELES – An employee of a game technology studio who alleges that she and other co-workers were wrongfully being denied reimbursement for personal internet expenses for work done at home is asking for preliminary approval of a $100,000 settlement. According to plaintiff Meghan O’Sullivan’s proposed Los Angeles Superior Court class-action lawsuit against Mythical Games, she and the other impacted employees were ordered to work from their residences for more than two years rather than come in to the company’s Sherman Oaks office, where the company develops video games and platforms. O’Sullivan was hired in November 2021 as an executive…
COVINA – A collision involving a Metrolink train and a car in Covina Friday left one person from the vehicle injured. Paramedics sent to North Barranca Avenue and East Front Street about 10:25 a.m. took the injured person to a hospital in unknown condition, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. No one was injured aboard the train. The train, Number 308 on the San Bernardino line, had departed from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, according to Metrolink. The track was closed while an investigation was conducted.
LOS ANGELES – Former Chargers head coach Don Coryell has been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, it was announced in Phoenix. Coryell, credited with creating the Air Coryell offense, was the first head coach to win more than 100 games at the collegiate and professional level. He was one of nine people elected to the Hall of Fame and will be inducted in Canton, Ohio during the summer. Coryell was the coach of the San Diego Chargers from 1978 to 1986 compiling a 69-56 record over nine seasons. He led the Chargers to two AFC championships games,…