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The 10th Council District Hosts ‘Snow Night in Leimert’

This past Friday night in Leimert Park Plaza, the 10th Council District, in collaboration with the Empowerment Congress and surrounding businesses and community partners, hosted a special free ‘Snow Night in Leimert Park’ holiday celebration for families in the community.

`Powerful’ Storm Set to Douse Southland on Today and Tuesday

A strong storm system is expected to drench much of Southern California with rain and cover mountaintops with snow beginning tonight and peaking Tuesday. National Weather Service forecasters have dubbed it “the most significant storm of the season.”

Exhibition Of Portraits Of Metro Riders To Open At Union Station

An art exhibition titled “We Are … Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists” will debut in the Union Station Passageway Art Gallery today. The exhibition includes 35 portraits celebrating the diversity of Metro’s ridership, with transit riders of different ages, ethnicities and backgrounds included.

COVID Cases Rising in County, Possibly Starting Winter Surge

Exactly two weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday and its associated gatherings of family and friends, Los Angeles County is seeing a resulting increase in COVID-19 cases, the public health director said recently, calling the trend a possible start of yet another winter surge of infections.