Articles by Stephanie Chavez

Flash-flood watches remained in effect – especially in the burn areas – Monday night as a powerful Alaska storm made its second pass over Southern California, pummeling the region with heavy rain, walnut-size hail, erratic winds, thunder and lightning. Read more

Michele Bird, a college counselor at the private Harvard-Westlake School, took a seat Saturday at a table of six high school seniors, all of whom wanted to go to college, all of whom sought her advice. Read more

Sky Shiver – cowboy hat shading his face, handkerchief tied around his neck – got the call on his cellphone shortly before 11 a.m. Read more

Frank Garcia couldn’t shake the sadness. Read more

The most frequently asked question in San Gabriel these days is not “Where’s the mission?” Read more

The lawmakers and the speech-givers who descended on East Los Angeles on Saturday said the impending construction of the Eastside Gold Line and the opening of a refurbished Belvedere Park Lake represented the beginning of a renaissance and the hard-fought fulfillment of a promise for the community. Read more

The final indignity for Sweetie Williams hit the afternoon his son Eliezer brought home tattered photocopied pages from an eighth-grade math book, not the math book. Read more

The way Eric Weir was anticipating receipt of a $25 check, it could have been $25,000. Read more

Mitchell Lardner didn’t pay much attention to an April 8 company memo alerting him and other employees of Sumitomo Corp. Read more