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MONTEREY PARK >> A memorial service for Mexican music superstar Juan Gabriel is scheduled for Tuesday at a Catholic Church in Monterey Park. The service is set for 5 to 9 p.m. at St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church, 320 W. Garvey Ave. Gabriel, 66, whose inteational popularity spaed multiple generations, died of a heart attack Aug. 27 at his home in Santa Monica. He was known for his powerful ballads and a commanding stage presence punctuated by often-flamboyant costumes. His death came less than three days after he performed a two-hour set at the Los Angeles Forum as part of his sold-out “MeXXico Es Todo Tour.” Gabriel, whose real name was Alberto Aquilera Valadez, wrote more than 1,50...

FlyAway airport shuttle service between LAX and Santa Monica will be discontinued immediately after Labor Day weekend. The Santa Monica service will stop ruing at midnight on Tuesday. Airport commissioners voted earlier this summer to end service for the Santa Monica route due to low ridership, according to Los Angeles World Airports spokesman Charles Paunzio. FlyAway service will still operate out of Westwood, Long Beach, Hollywood, Union Station, Van Nuys and the Orange Line’s Woodley Station. FlyAway shuttle schedules are available at http://www.lawa.org/FlyAway/. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

A Labor Day tradition, this year’s Conquer the Bridge Race over the Vincent Thomas Bridge will get a cadenced sound track this year as hundreds of sailors in town for LA Fleet Week join the challenge. “They’ll run as part of teams and formations, they’re supposed to be in cadence,” said Michael-Patrick Hogue, producer of the aual Labor Day race now in its eighth year. Also participating Monday along with the Navy will be members of the Coast Guard and Marine Corps. Online registration ($50 entry fee) remains open until Thursday night at www.active.com and, after that, will be available through Road Ruer Sports, 25359 Crenshaw Blvd. (across from Mimi’s Cafe) Torrance, (310-326-8530, Ext. 2) a...

EXPOSITION PARK >> Kendrick Lamar celebrated a homecoming of sorts at the FYF Fest on Saturday, headlining the main stage just a few miles north of his hometown of Compton and, over the course of a terrifically compelling set, underscoring his standing as one of the top rappers in the game today. Lamar, alone on stage for most of his performance, his band positioned in the wings, offered all the things for which the 29-year-old hip-hop artist has been rightly celebrated during his rapid ascent in the past two or three years. Passionate poetry both personal and political that flows smoothly from the mic. A deep understanding of the soul and jazz and funk that predates hip-hop and inspir...

EXPOSITION PARK >> The 13th aual FYF Fest got started this year under cool temperatures as thousands of music fans came to Exposition Park to see more than 30 bands perform on several stages during day one of the festival. Saturday’s headliner was Long Beach native Kendrick Lamar who was joined on the eclectic bill by fellow hip hop artist Vince Staples and the psychedelic Australian band Tame Impala. • Photos: Inside day one of FYF Fest 2016 The festival, which started in 2004 as a cluster of punk-rock-oriented shows at various venues in Echo Park, has grown into one of the most popular area music events and the Saturday crowd seemed to be into the mix of well-known acts and up-and-co...

The “most important factor” that drives prescription drug prices higher in the United States than anywhere else in the world is the existence of govement-protected “monopoly” rights for drug manufacturers, researchers at Harvard Medical School said this week. The researchers reviewed thousands of studies published from January 2005 through July 2016 in an attempt to simplify and explain what has caused America’s drug price crisis and how to solve it. They found that the problem has deep and complicated roots and published their findings in JAMA, the joual of the American Medical Association. The study was funded by the Laura and John Aold Foundation with additional support provided by the En...

Julie Jeffs had taken a 6 a.m. flight from Michigan last week and arrived late in the moing to LAX, where she expected to spend a long day hunkering down at the Tom Bradley Inteational Terminal before hopping on an 11:30 p.m. red eye to Fiji. But the airline ticket counter wouldn’t be open until 7 p.m., so Jeffs was unable to get a boarding pass and clear security, denying her access to the extensive variety of gourmet restaurants near the gates at the newly revamped terminal at Los Angeles Inteational Airport. So she began looking for a sit-down restaurant, lugging around a 50-pound suitcase so she could have a decent meal and a cold glass of beer. It was a long search. There are just two ...

The first bus fare decrease in the Orange County Transportation Authority’s history will go into effect along with its largest-ever service overhaul in October, board members voted this week. Fare reduction, approved 12-0 by the transportation authority board, applies only to the day pass, which will drop from $5 to $4 for six months starting Oct. 9, the same date as the bus service changes. The day pass decrease, recommended by OCTA’s consultant CH2M, is part of a fare study that is one of several initiatives aimed at boosting ridership. OCTA logged its peak ridership in 2007 with 69 million boardings, but dropped to 43 million boardings last fiscal year, a 37 percent fall-off, the authori...

MORENO VALLEY >> Alfredo David lay in bed, looking deflated under an Avengers blanket, as a doctor, two nurses, and medical interpreter Veronica Maldonado entered his hospital room. He wrapped up a call from his wife, then fiddled idly with his phone. He had received distressing news from the team at the Riverside University Health System Medical Center: His sharp abdominal pains and difficulty eating, previously diagnosed at another hospital as gastritis, were actually caused by metastatic cancer. The tumor was growing. David, 45, was not going to recover. Maldonado pulled up a chair for herself and another for palliative care specialist Dr. Faheem Jukaku, and the two sat at David’s ...

A 21-year-old Reno woman spending her first day in Los Angeles plunged to her death Friday from a cliff at Point Fermin in San Pedro, police said. The accident occurred about 2:15 p.m. in the 500 block of West Paseo del Mar. The woman, who had just moved to Califoia from Nevada, asked her new roommate to take her to the beach. At Point Fermin, she climbed a 4-foot wall at the park’s edge to get a better view of the ocean, Los Angeles police Sgt. Bradley Hea said. Somehow, she slipped and fell to her death about 2:15 p.m. She landed on rocks below. “It was completely accidental,” Hea said. Coroner’s investigators and Los Angeles police responded. The woman’s name was not immediately released...

Mandatory evacuation orders for an area of south Hesperia and Oak Hills will be lifted at 1 p.m., the Sheriff’s Department said at 12:45 p.m. Thursday. The area extends east of the 15 Freeway to Santa Fe and Summit Valley Road and south of Ranchero Road to Highway 138. The Blue Cut fire has left about 967 customers without power as of noon Thursday, according to Southe Califoia Edison. • LIVE UPDATES: Latest on the Blue Cut fire from our reporters and photographers in the field Areas with fire-related outages include Hesperia, Oak Hills, Pinon Hills, Phelan, Rancho Cucamonga and Victorville, SCE said on Twitter. “We’re currently staging additional persoel & materials (poles, wires, tran...

NBC 10 a.m. – Noon Track & Field (LIVE) Men’s 400m Hurdles – Gold Medal Final Canoe/Kayak – Sprint Gold Medal Finals Noon – 2 p.m. Women’s Volleyball – Semifinal (LIVE) 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Women’s Diving – Platform Semifinal Men’s Cycling – BMX Quarterfinals 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Men’s Water Polo – Semifinal (LIVE) Synchronized Swimming – Team Qualifying 8 p.m. – Midnight Track & Field – Gold Medal Finals (LIVE) Men’s Shot Put Women’s Javelin Men’s 1500m Decathlon Women’s 400m Hurdles Men’s 200m Women’s Diving – Platform Gold Medal Final Men’s Beach Volleyball – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 12:35 a.m. – 1:35 a.m. Men’s Beach Volleyball – Medal Round 1:35 a.m. – 4:30 a.m. Primetime Encore NBC...

The 15 Freeway, the main artery in and out of the High Desert, remains closed Wednesday moing as firefighters battled the out-of-control Blue Cut fire in the Cajon Pass oveight. The massive wind-driven wildfire devoured 30,000u2009acres and multiple homes and buildings by Wednesday moing, forcing more than 80,000 people to evacuate their homes. No portion of the perimeter has containment lines. “Dozens” of buildings were destroyed, according to San Beardino County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig. • Photos: The Blue Cut fire bus 30,000 acres and is still out of control A day after playing defense because of the erratic and unpredictable path of the flames, crews on the Blue Cut fire are in more of a...

The 15 Freeway, the main artery in and out of the High Desert, remains closed Wednesday moing as firefighters battled the out-of-control Blue Cut fire in the Cajon Pass oveight. The massive wind-driven wildfire devoured 30,000u2009acres and multiple homes and buildings by Wednesday moing, forcing more than 80,000 people to evacuate their homes. No portion of the perimeter has containment lines. • Photos: The Blue Cut fire bus 30,000 acres and is still out of control The mandatory evacuation area includes Phelan/Piñon Hills south of Phelan Road from Sheep Creek Road to Green Road, including the Desert Front Road area, the San Beardino Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday moing. • Live updates...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> A Brazilian judge ordered Wednesday that the passports of American swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen be seized, confining them to the country as authorities investigate their claim they were robbed at gunpoint during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. It was not immediately clear whether the swimmers were still in Brazil. The office of Judge Keyla Blank confirmed the order Wednesday in a statement. The U.S. Olympic Committee said police went to the athletes village Wednesday moing to try to collect the passports, but the swim team had already moved out. Spokesman Patrick Sandusky declined to say whether Lochte and Feigen were still in the country. “As part of our stand...

CAJON PASS >> A massive wind-driven wildfire devoured 18,000u2009acres and multiple buildings with “bewildering” speed Tuesday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate and defying firefighters’ efforts to stop its spread. Sheriff’s officials estimated they evacuated 34,500 homes, which equates to about 82,600u2009residents, according to the U.S. Forestu2009Service, as the Blueu2009Cut fire raced north. • Live updates: Follow live updates from the Blue Cut fire By evening, nine hours after the fire started, no portion of its perimeter had containment lines to keep the flames from spreading. Gov.u2009Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency, and 700u2009firefighting persoel were...

KNBC/4 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Track and field (Men’s 3,000 steeplechase; decathlon); Equestrian (team jumping - gold medal) 1-3 p.m. Men’s volleyball: U.S. vs. Poland (quarterfinal) 3-5 p.m. Canoe/kayak (sprint qualifying); Women’s water polo (semifinal); Gymastics (exhibition gala) 8 p.m.-midnight Track and field (Women’s long jump; women’s 200; women’s 100 hurdles; men’s 200 semis; decathlon); Women’s diving (platform qualifying); Women’s beach volleyball (gold medal) 12:35-1:35 a.m. Women’s beach volleyball (medal round) 1:35-4:30 a.m. Primetime encore NBCSN 5-9 a.m. Canoe/kayak (sprint qualifying); Track and field (men’s 3,000 steeplechase; decathlon) 9-11 a.m. Men’s soccer: Brazil vs. Honduras...

CAJON PASS >> A massive wind-driven wildfire devoured 15,000 acres and multiple buildings with “bewildering” speed Tuesday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate and defying firefighters’ efforts to stop the spread. Sheriff’s officials estimate they evacuated 34,500 homes – which equates to about 82,600 residents, according to the U.S. Forest Service – as the Blue Cut fire raced north. By evening, nine hours after the fire started, no portion of its perimeter had containment lines to keep the flames from spreading. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency, and 700 firefighting persoel were battling the fire. • LIVE UPDATES: Follow live updates from the Blue Cut fire Im...

CAJON PASS >> More than 500 firefighters are battling a 5,500-acre brush fire Tuesday that has forced evacuations in the Cajon Pass area. • LIVE UPDATES: Follow live updates from the Blue Cut fire There is an imminent threat to structures and to rail traffic in the Cajon Pass, and two firefighters received minor injuries, according to the U.S. Forest Service. “We have some structures destroyed,” U.S. Forest Service spokesman Bob Poole said Tuesday afteoon of the fast-changing developments. “I don’t have a number. I don’t know where.” • PHOTOS: Firefighters are attacking the Blue Cut fire in the Cajon Pass Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for all of the Cajon Valley west of the ...

SAN BERNARDINO >> BNSF Railway Co. shut down train operations through the Cajon Pass in both directions Tuesday as a result of the Blue Cut fire, said spokeswoman Lena Kent. More than 500 firefighters are battling a 5,500-acre brush fire that has forced evacuations in the Cajon Pass area. “We do have a train that is close to the fire that is in the process of safely being moved away from the area,” she said. The Associated Press reported that a freight train was stopped by the fire and its crew had to flee. The Blue Cut fire was reported just after 10:30 a.m near Kenwood Avenue in the Cajon Pass, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Winds are blowing to the north, pushing smoke into ...