Here is a sampling of charities in the San Fernando Valley area that need your support through donations or volunteer work. American Red Cross blood donations: Blood, especially type O, and platelet donations needed.

What to do: Ride the roller coaster or the ferris wheel, try your hand at a couple carnival games, or take a short walk to Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade. A highlight over there is the restaurant Dialogue, which earned a top spot last year on the L.A. Times’ 101 Best Restaurants. If you’re looking for something closer to home ...

Fischer, who lives in Santa Monica, said the stores encompass what California is like. “You feel it in the casual, chill nature of the employees and the vibe the store gives,” she said. In 1985, I visited LA for the first time, and @JessBravin wanted to show me two places: the Pacific Ocean (“I thought you’d like to see it”) and ...

Earlier this week, Santa Monica-based Bird launched 250 black and white scooters in Sacramento. That follows 250 bright red scooters San Francisco-based Spin placed on city streets in January. The additions joined Jump and Lime, which both launched scooters here last year. According to Sacramento city code, bikes can be ridden on the sidewalk ...

/PRNewswire/ -- Breakfast powers kids to reach their full potential, but millions of kids in need start the school day on an empty stomach. No Kid Hungry,

For the most part. There was some movement, story-wise, so let's look at what managed to creep through. With no tricks up her sleeve, Gamma -- real name: Mary from Santa Monica -- effectively left the Whisperers and joined up with the main cast of heroes. As far as we, and Gabriel, can tell, she's on the up and up. She's also got the best vote ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wilshire Associates ® (Wilshire) announced today that Andrew Junkin, who has served as President of Wilshire Consulting since 2015, has decided to leave Wilshire to pursue other professional endeavors. Coinciding with his departure, Wilshire has introduced a Chief Operating Officer role to increase ...

The first time electric scooters showed up in Winston-Salem in August 2018, chaos ruled. With little notice, the Bird Company of Santa Monica, Calif., off-loaded, literally in the dark of night, a fleet of some 1,000 of the devices on every conceivable city intersection and block. Guerrilla-marketing is what the hip experts call such an approach.

Sentencing for a man convicted of two murders who prosecutors dubbed "The Boy Next Door Killer" was delayed Friday over a defense motion that seeks a new trial because the prosecution failed to share information that would have compromised the credibility of a detective who was a key witness in the case.

A winter weather advisory began at 10 a.m Sunday for mountains and passes in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and was set for noon Sunday in the Los Angeles County mountains, excluding the coast Santa Monica Mountains, the National Weather Service said. For Riverside and San Bernardino County mountains, snow levels were expected to drop ...