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HAWAIIAN GARDENS >> Earthy colors such as sandstone, amber and terra cotta set the tone inside The Gardens Casino, a Southland gambling destination on the verge of completing a $90-million transformation. The project, which attracted a visit from Gov. Jerry Brown nearly three years ago, has been called a renovation effort but may be more accurately described as a construction project. When the goveor stopped by in December 2013, the Carson Street venue was known as Hawaiian Gardens Casino, where players sat at card tables beneath a giant white tent. At the time, the renovation project was expected to cost $45 million. Casino general manager Ron Sarabi said during a Friday tour of the ...

If you’re a “Game of Thrones” fan, you’ve noticed that everyone who’s anyone is talking about some secret surprise “Game of Thrones” thing happening in LA on Monday. So, what is it? Well, we’re not totally sure yet, but we’ll be there to find out. For now, we know a few details, thanks to a press release sent by the event organizers. Here’s what we can tell you: Music is coming That’s what the 12-second trailer posted to YouTube by the show says, anyway. The composer of that epic GoT music Ramin Djawadi will be at the Hollywood Palladium along with a full orchestra to play the show’s rousing music. Bran is coming too Bran Stark, errr Isaac Hempstead Wright, will be there, probably on stage ...

The number of teenagers finding summer jobs surged in June to a three-year high, according to a new report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Employment among teens ages 16 to 19 increased by 691,000, the report said. That was up 13 percent from the 609,000 teen jobs that were added in June of 2015, and it was the biggest boost for that month since 779,000 teens secured summer work in June 2013. Teen hiring for May and June — the first two months of the three-month summer hiring period — outpaced hiring for the same period last year. A total of 847,000 teens were hired in May and June of this year, a 7.1 percent increase over the 791,000 who were hired during the same t...

NEW YORK >> Roger Ailes is out as chief executive at Fox News Chael, his career at the network he built from scratch and ran with an iron hand for nearly 20 years over with stuing swiftness following allegations that he forced out a former anchor after she spued his sexual advances. • PHOTOS: Roger Ailes is out at Fox News Network parent 21st Century Fox said that Rupert Murdoch, the company’s executive chairman, would run Fox News and its sister Fox Business Network, which Ailes had also led, until a successor could be found. Murdoch and 21st Century Fox and Murdoch did not address the widening scandal in the statement on the resignation but lauded Ailes for his contributions. Ailes ...

SAN DIEGO >> Comic-Con Inteational is about to unleash a smorgasbord of entertainment news on the world. The four-day pop-culture phenomenon will draw hundreds of thousands to the San Diego Convention Center and the Gaslamp Quarter Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24. There are hundreds of panels that Comic-Con badge holders can attend — with some waiting in line for up to 24 hours to get into the bigger panels in the massive Hall H. Hall H is the maker of nerdy dreams for a lucky 6,500 people. For those able to get into the convention center’s largest room, there will be stars aplenty, exclusive footage shown and maybe a chance to hang out with the cast of “Star Wars” at a surpr...

How do you actually take care of yourself in traumatic situations? And how do you take care of yourself when you are being bombarded with gruesome images? There's a program at Drexel University in Philadelphia that answers those questions daily. It's called Healing Hurt People. It's an organization that works to undue the impacts of violence on young people. It helps victims of gunshot, stab, or assault wounds receive counseling for emotional and social stress related to violence and PTSD. Healing Hurt People was the subject of aThis American Life feature back in 2013. We reached out to Dr. John Rich, a co-director of the program, for advice. He gave us five suggestions. 1. Understand that y...

BELL GARDENS — A man was shot to death while riding a bicycle along the Los Angeles River bicycle path in Bell Gardens, authorities said today. The shooting was reported at 6:26 p.m. Monday along the bike path west of the Long Beach (710) Freeway and north of Firestone Boulevard, said Deputy Crystal Heandez of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. The man was riding a bicycle on the dirt path adjacent to the Los Angeles River just west of the Long Beach Freeway when “the suspect approached him on foot and shot him,” Heandez said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, she said. The suspect was described as a man wearing dark clothing who ran to a vehicle on the Long Beach Freeway and rode...

Joe Jares, a former Los Angeles Daily News sports editor and columnist in the 1980s and ’90s who spent more than 15 years at Sports Illustrated, died Saturday night in Los Angeles. He was 78. A general-assignment reporter at the Los Angeles Times as well as a writer for United Press Inteational and the Los Angeles Herald-Express before joining SI, Jares covered more than 20 sports, specializing in teis and college basketball. He authored nine sports-related books during his career, topped off by the 1974 “Whatever Happened to Gorgeous George,” an affectionate history of pro wrestling from the 1940s to the ’60s. Sports Illustrated ranked it at No. 76 on its list of the “Top 100 Sports Books o...

A Hawaiian Gardens hospital that tends to mostly low-income patients in the southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach area filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week, having nearly $26 million in unsecured debt, according to court documents. Gardens Regional Hospital Medical Center, formerly known as Tri-City Regional Medical Center, filed the court documents Tuesday. A hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles is scheduled for Thursday. Over the last 12 months, the 137-bed nonprofit hospital needed to generate about $119,474 per day in order to cover its costs, court records show. But with patient counts routinely falling below 50 beds in use daily, the hospital is only generatin...