On December 30, 2012, actor, director, and producer Rockmond Dunbar ¾ best known for his performances in the HBO series “Soul Food,” “Prison Break,” “The Mentalist,” and “9-1-1” ¾ married actress and writer Maya Gilbert.
Snow days return to the southland as L.A. County Parks & Recreation reprises its popular Parks After Dark Winter Wonderland festivities at 34 L.A. County parks over three weekends in December.
Government offices and libraries throughout the Southland will be closed Monday in celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, or Columbus Day.
State and federal courts will shut their doors Monday as well, and there will be no U.S. Mail delivery. Most banks are also expected to be closed. However, Los Angeles Unified School District schools will be open. Buses and subway services in both the city and county of Los Angeles will run
on a regular schedule, along with Metrolink trains. Stores, too, will be open as usual.
Los Angeles World Airports CEO Deborah Flint will leave the Southland in March to become president and CEO of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, the city agency announced.
Raising the threat of the first Southland grocery strike in nearly 16 years, unionized grocery workers overwhelmingly authorized its union to call for a work stoppage unless a contract agreement can be reached, union officials announced.
John Wesley Ewell — who had been facing a potential death sentence if he had gone to trial and been convicted of the slayings — now faces life in prison without the possibility of parole in connection with his plea to four counts each of murder and residential robbery.
When I first started my event planning business over a quarter of a century ago, one of my favorite clients was working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). I was originally hired by Genethia Hudley Hayes who was the executive director at the time. She wanted me to come in and help with what was known as “King Week.”
Seven-Year Old Initiative Has Helped Launch or Further the TV Directing Careers of More Than 40 Women and People of Color
The parent company of several Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles restaurants emerged from bankruptcy this week when a Los Angeles judge confirmed a modified confirmation plan to repay creditors, it was announced today.
The Marinello Schools of Beauty announced last Thursday it is closing its campuses — including about a dozen Southland locations — as a result of the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to cut off access to student financial aid. The DOE said it had determined that Marinello was knowingly requesting federal aid for students based on invalid high school diplomas, under-awarding Title IV aid to students, charging students for excessive overtime and engaging in other acts of misrepresentation. “Our students depend on higher education institutions to prepare them for careers through a quality education,” Undersecretary of Education Ted Mitchell said.