Pomona

Mar 27 2013

Santa Monica Airport and Hawthorne Municipal Airport not closing

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Airport traffic control towers in Pacoima, Fullerton, Riverside and Ramona will close April 7 under the Federal Aviation Administration’s forced spending cuts, the agency announced today.

In addition, a control tower in Lancaster will close April 21 and a tower in San Diego will shut down May 5, FAA officials said.

Oct 1 2012

A man with a lengthy criminal record was sentenced today to 150 years to life behind bars for robbing four banks -- one of them twice.

POMONA, CALIF.  Jerry Lee Franklin, 40, was on parole when he was arrested in April after leading police on a freeway chase. He had three prior serious felony convictions, including drug trafficking with the use of a firearm.
He pleaded no contest to second-degree robbery charges stemming from holdups at U.S. Bank in Hacienda Heights on July 6, 2011; Bank of the West in Rowland Heights on July 12, 2011, and then again on Jan. 11; at a Citibank in Rowland Heights on Jan. 14; and at the First Federal Credit Union in West Covina on April 23.

Gail Choice  |   OW Contributor
Sep 7 2011

Hollywood by Choice

Say What? The L.A. County Fair’s End of Summer Concert Series is serious and soulful. I had the privilege of attending the Sept. 3 concert that featured the  '70s bands, Lakeside, Rose Royce and the Ohio Players. I had a funky good time. 

A Sony Music executive once told me that a hit will always be a hit, and that surely was the case on Saturday. Although the three bands didn’t have all of their original members, the funk and soul still flowed.

Sep 2 2011

Opening Weekend Admission: Saturday - Monday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., $1

POMONA, Calif.—The 89th edition of the Los Angeles County Fair begins its 23-day run at the Fairplex in Pomona Saturday with its traditional mix of exhibits, concerts, horse racing and the kind of food that would create guilt if it were consumed somewhere else.

Shark Encounter is among the new attractions at the nation’s largest county fair.

Sep 1 2011

Fort Collins, Colo. takes 1st place

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Los Angeles is America’s second-worst driving city when it comes to frequency of vehicle crashes, according to Allstate Insurance Co.’s annual Best Driver’s Report released today.

Los Angeles drivers as a whole average a crash every 6.6 years, a figure that nationally trails only Philadelphia drivers at 6.5 years, according to Allstate.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”