Last year, there was an outbreak of typhus in the squalor near skid row. In other places, including San Diego, homeless residents have seen cases of hepatitis A, and Klausner said homeless people in Santa Monica recently had a few cases of trench fever, which is transmitted by body lice. “We are a confined community,” said Edward Linwood ...

I took a photo and laughed until it hit me — this was no laughing matter. Not long after, I visited a private school in Santa Monica where posters, done in a child’s hand, said “Join the Young Proletariat Club — Support the Revolution!” We now live in a realm of buzzwords, hashtags, slogans that can seduce us with the neatness of ...

Season 2 of the series premiered Feb. 13. Her cottage-style house in Santa Monica and its next-door neighbor share the lush, shady garden that stretches across both properties. The side-by-side homes are owned by a pair of acting coaches with whom Ruiz has lived for the last five years. “They have become my family in Los Angeles,” said Ruiz ...

The game will operate as a live-service title, meaning players can expect new heroes and maps on a regular basis. Not only that, but I spent a day on the campus of Riot Games in Santa Monica, Calif., learning the ins and outs of the title by not only speaking to the team, but going hands on with it. For more on Riot Games' promising title ...

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 ...