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Friday, November 28, 2008

Quilters give vets a warm welcome

California | Local | By Jia-Rui Chong | November 28, 2008
In one corner of the classroom at Prince of Peace Episcopal Church, a group of women knotted blue thread atop layers of star-spangled fabric and cotton batting. Read more
 

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Mission Hills hospital seeks permission to resume expansion project

California | Local | By Alex and Ra Zavis | November 12, 2008
Officials at a San Fernando Valley hospital urged the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday to allow construction to resume on a $180-million expansion, saying the project is caught in a legal and political quagmire that is putting emergency care and jobs at risk. Read more
 

Friday, September 26, 2008

Gang injunction splits a San Fernando Valley community

California | Local | By Scott Gold | September 26, 2008
Daniel, 15, lives on a tree-lined street at the northern tip of the San Fernando Valley. Read more
 

Sunday, September 7, 2008

On the front lines of search for toxic sites

California | Local | By Jennifer Oldham | September 7, 2008
Marcela Herrera wiped sweat from her nose as the screeching sound of a saw cutting lumber mixed with mariachi music blaring from a house across the street. Read more
 

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Suspected Israeli mobsters to be extradited on charges of trafficking Ecstasy

California | Local | By Joe Mozingo and Ashraf Khalil | August 26, 2008
Suspected Israeli mobsters employed members of the Vineland Boyz, a San Fernando Valley gang, to distribute tens of thousands of Ecstasy pills throughout Los Angeles, provide security and gun down an Encino man who allegedly tried to steal a drug shipment from them, according to a federal indictment unsealed Sunday. Read more
 

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Burbank hospital’s infection control faulted

California | Local | By Rong-Gong Lin II | July 13, 2008
Something was amiss last fall at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. Read more
 

Friday, April 25, 2008

747 to join 818 as Valley prefix

California | Local | By Jennifer Oldham | April 25, 2008
State utility officials voted Thursday to overlay a new area code in the San Fernando Valley – an action that follows a decade of emotional debate and effectively ends the Valley’s longtime reputation as the land of the 818. Read more
 

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

2 lawyers punished in worker visa case

California | Local | March 12, 2008
Two local immigration attorneys were sentenced Monday for filing false employment visa applications for foreign nationals, including more than a dozen who worked at their San Fernando Valley law firm. Read more
 

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Taller buildings a tough sell

California | Local | February 6, 2008
Neighborhood activists in the northeast San Fernando Valley thought they scored a major victory in 1995, when they persuaded Los Angeles officials to approve zoning rules to keep new buildings on Foothill Boulevard from blocking their hillside views. Read more
 

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Crime victim of a different feather subject of a search

California | Local | January 24, 2008
Search parties combed the San Fernando Valley for traces of the wounded victim. Read more
 

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Valley institution cuts out

California | Local | By Scott Gold | December 30, 2007
The walnut groves and dirt roads have long since given up the ghost, as Van Nuys has become the bustling epicenter of a San Fernando Valley now home to nearly 2 million people. Read more
 

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Camp Holton probation officers won’t be charged

California | Local | By Susannah Rosenblatt | December 29, 2007
Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Friday that they would not file charges against two probation officers who were accused of kicking, slapping and verbally abusing several teenagers serving time at a San Fernando Valley probation camp. Read more
 

Thursday, December 27, 2007

California in Brief | SAN FERNANDO VALLEY - Parolee charged in sexual attacks

California | Local | By Andrew Blankstein | December 27, 2007
Prosecutors charged a 24-year-old parolee Wednesday with a series of sexual attacks on three women and a 4-year-old girl in the San Fernando Valley, authorities said. Read more
 

Thursday, December 20, 2007

California in Brief | LOS ANGELES - District urged to reject fee plan

California | Local | By Jason Song | December 20, 2007
A San Fernando Valley youth sports league urged the Los Angeles school board Wednesday to reject a plan to charge youth groups that use district athletic fields and facilities. Read more
 

Monday, December 17, 2007

Body is found in car at tow yard

California | Local | By Kenneth R. Weiss | December 17, 2007
The body of an elderly woman was discovered Sunday in the front passenger side of a crumpled car in a San Fernando Valley towing company’s yard – a day after paramedics had removed her son from the same vehicle after a crash, authorities said. Read more
 

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Plan fails to curb growth in Valley

California | Local | By Sharon Bernstein | December 8, 2007
A new city report found that developers could add 3 million square feet of commercial space to the Ventura Boulevard corridor under current zoning rules, despite concerns by residents and elected officials that the area is overdeveloped. Read more
 

Sunday, December 2, 2007

A possible romance led to lawsuit, death

California | Local | By Cecilia Rasmussen | December 2, 2007
The San Fernando Valley’s Lankershim family is immortalized by the seven-mile boulevard that bears its name, along with a school and a historic downtown Los Angeles building, among other namesakes. Read more
 

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Despite tape, condos get early OK

California | Local | By David Zahniser | November 21, 2007
A Los Angeles City Council panel voted Tuesday in favor of a proposed 78-unit condominium project, despite hearing a recording of a Planning Department employee attempting to leave the developer a phone message that his project would be approved “no matter what.” Read more
 

Sunday, November 18, 2007

BOHO BOULEVARD

Image | By Booth Moore | November 18, 2007
STUDIO CITY BOHO BOULEVARD – From the car window, the stretch of Ventura Boulevard just west of Laurel Canyon looks a lot like the local shopping mall, with chain stores Gap, Banana Republic, Chico’s and Urban Outfitters. Read more
 

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Tujunga Wash project creates more recreation space while saving water

California | Local | By Francisco Vara-Orta | November 8, 2007
A $7-million partial revitalization of the Tujunga Wash helps conserve water and provides new recreational space in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles officials said Wednesday. Read more
 
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