Tag : Los Angeles

Tag: Los Angeles

Meet the California firefighter ‘super commuters’ traveling 2,000 miles for work

As cost of living continues to rise in the Golden state, some first responders have moved to Oregon, Arizona, Texas, Alabama, Florida – even Alaska“Is it OK if I talk from the car?” asked Kyle Conforti, a 40-year-old firefighter who works at the Oran...

Jerry Moss obituary

American record company executive who co-founded the A&M label with the trumpeter Herb AlpertWhen a 50-1 outsider named Giacomo won the 2005 Kentucky Derby, it was not the first time that the horse’s owner, the American record company executive J...

Hollywood studio Lionsgate brings back mask mandate amid Covid spike

The studio behind John Wick and The Hunger Games has reinstated the use of masks after several employees tested positive for Covid-19The Hollywood film studio Lionsgate has reinstated its mask mandate as cases of Covid-19 continue to rise.In a compan...

‘Out of reach’: median home price in Los Angeles nears $1m

House prices have increased more than 30% in five years in the state’s largest city, which has at least 50,000 people living outsideThe median price for a home in Los Angeles, California’s largest city, will soon hit $1m, as soaring housing costs fue...

Los Angeles: hotel workers’ strike ignites backlash among academics

Academics are boycotting their annual meeting after they say leadership spurned a union request to move online or cancelThe union representing thousands of hotel workers on strike in Los Angeles is clashing with a group of political scientists over a...

Tyrese Gibson sues Home Depot for $1m over alleged racial discrimination

Fast & Furious actor claims staffers at hardware store discriminated against him and two of his workersThe US actor and singer Tyrese Gibson is demanding more than $1m from Home Depot after he says staffers at one of the American hardware giant’s...

Tory Lanez sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion

Canadian musician was found guilty last year for three felonies related to the shooting which injured rapper in footMusician Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for the shooting of fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.Lanez...

Who murdered Tupac Shakur? Only one man knows for sure

News last month of a police raid sparked fresh hopes of solving one of the most infamous killings in US history. William Shaw, an expert on the Los Angeles rap scene, recounts a tragic tale of racism, gangs, toxic masculinity and police incompetenceT...

White supremacist Robert Rundo extradited from Romania to US to face charges

Rise Above Movement co-founder to face charges in Los Angeles in relation to violent clashes with anti-fascist protesters in 2017Robert Rundo, the influential American neo-Nazi and co-founder of the now-defunct Rise Above Movement, was extradited to...

Body found in plastic barrel floating in water at a Malibu beach

A lifeguard brought the container ashore and opened it to discover a Black man’s body as homicide detectives investigate the deathA lifeguard found a man’s body in a barrel at a southern California beach on Monday, after seeing the container floating...

Dry cleaners, restaurants, hotels: the ripple effects of Hollywood’s strike

As the actors’ and writers’ strikes settle in, restaurants, cleaners and other businesses prepare for a financial downturnAt first glance, not much seems amiss at Milt & Edie’s dry cleaners, a stone’s throw from the Warner Bros studio where a lon...

Leggy new star discovered four inches under Los Angeles: the thread millipede

As long as a paperclip and as thin as pencil lead, Illacme socal is no ordinary SoCal denizen – it uses 486 legs to walk wherever it goesThe city of angels, a metropolis of freeways and traffic, has a newly discovered species named in its honor: the...

A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA

Gone are the small, clean, cheap motels and public spaces where anyone can find a place to nurse a cup of coffee. Yet the camaraderie of the Greyhound is hanging onI recently completed the road trip of a lifetime. I struck out from Napanee, Ontario,...

Julian Sands’ cause of death undetermined due to condition of his body

Police say finding is ‘common when dealing with cases of this type’ a month after actor’s body was recovered in California mountainsJulian Sands’ cause of death has been deemed undetermined due to the condition of his body, six months after the Briti...

Fifth bus of asylum seekers arrives in Los Angeles from Texas

Bus was carrying 44 people hailing from Colombia, China, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, including 14 childrenA fifth bus of asylum seekers from Texas arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday as part of Governor Greg Abbott’s plans to transpor...