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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 ...

The flames chewing at vegetation in the San Beardino Mountains have grown to cover 6,963 acres as of Tuesday moing, and firefighters say they still have the blaze about 6 percent contained. Nobody has been injured, and no structures have been lost in the Pilot fire, said San Beardino County Fire Battalion Chief Marc Peebles. The number of firefighters at the blaze has also grown from 843 Monday night to 934, Peebles said. • Photos: Fight against Pilot fire continues on Day 2 as acreage grows • Photos: ...

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...

LOS ANGELES >> Temperatures hit 110 at Glendale by noon today, as a pressure cooker of high pressure sat clamped above the southweste United States and made coastal June Gloom a fond memory. Red Flag Waings were posted today for the entire county. Fire weather - - hot, dry air, strong winds and low humidity -- was clamped over Southe Califoia by a huge high pressure system over the Four coers region, and would produce dangerously hot conditions today and Monday in all areas across the basin, according to the National Weather Service. Woodland Hills hit 106 at 1 p.m., it was 105 at Fullerton, Corona, Riverside and Van Nuys. Coastal areas did not escape the moing’s blast fuace. At noon,...

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...

Last month, state water officials eased conservation mandates in response to slightly above-average winter rain and snow in much of Califoia, leading many to speculate that the state’s long-ruing drought has tapered off. If only. The El Niño winter that forecasters said could drench the state with rain and snow veered north instead, striking mostly the Pacific Northwest. The amount of rain and snow that hit Northe Califoia was a tick above average and looked impressive mostly because it contrasted sharply with the extreme drought of the previous four years. Southe Califoia was wetter than in previous years, but not by much. Now, conditions are shifting, and El Niño’s counterpart, La Niña – a...