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Bellflower

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    USC Hosts Weekend Seminar to Educate Current Politicians on Ethics, Transparency; L.A. Mayor Attends Kentucky Derby Instead

    The University of Southern California isn't just for strapping young scholars anymore. Today and tomorrow, the USC Price School of Public Policy begins an ongoing series of classes that will school current politicians in "public transparency and ethics, leadership, governance and environmental polic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Christian Cobian, Unarmed Cyclist, Shot Dead by L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies

    Christian Cobian via Facebook​A trip to the corner store turned deadly for 26-year-old Lancaster resident Christian Cobian on Saturday night, when he was pulled over by L.A. County Sheriff's deputies for riding his bike without a headlight. His aunt tells NBC LA that Cobian was at a family bap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    Mom Brings Bags of Marijuana Into Juvenile Probation Camp on Visit to Son, Cops Say

    Bringing the love only a mother could provide, authorities claim that Rhonda J. Gonzales had several packages of marijuana with her when she visited her son this weekend at an L.A. County juvenile probation camp, authorities say. How kind. Unfortunately for the chap, she wasn't able to share her me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    VIDEO: L.A. Sheriff's Deputy Punches Special-Needs Woman on Bus

    NBC LABigshot.​Updated at the bottom: Sheriff's officials try to justify the use of force. The L.A. Sheriff's Department is up to its neck right now in allegations of gang-like behavior and beatings by deputies gone rogue. This cellphone video, shot by Bellflower bus passenger Jermaine Green ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    David Oakleaf: 74-Year-Old Beaten to Death With Bat in Walmart Sporting Goods Department

    Walmart​Updated at the bottom with a murder charge being filed against the suspect. The victim and suspect are ID'd. First posted at 7 a.m. on Wednesday. A homeless man allegedly grabbed a bat from a Walmart sporting goods department and beat an elderly man to death in front of horrified shop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Cocaine Worth $5 Million Seized by California Agents in Bellflower, Bell Gardens, Kamala Harris Says

    Das alotta coca my frengs.​Huge cocaine bust announced today: 51 kilos were seized by state agents in Bellflower and Bell Gardens. And the dope was linked, according to the office of state Attorney General Kamala Harris, to Mexico's Gaudalajara Cartel. Total worth? About $5 million, according ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Food Truck Friday: Lidia's Dominican Kitchen

    Guzzle & NoshLidia's Dominican Kitchen: Pernil (roasted pork) with rice, beans and gandules.​It's love at first bite with Lidia's Dominican Kitchen (@lidiaskitchen), a food truck run by someone who actually knows how to cook, not someone who's just itching to cash in on a trend. It no doubt he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    The Spudnuts Saga: A Bite of Donut History

    Jim Thurman​What was the first nationwide donut chain to reach Los Angeles? Krispy Kreme? You're not even trying. Dunkin' Donuts? Not from around here, are you? Winchell's?, Yum Yum? Getting closer, but no. The answer: Spudnuts. Brothers Al and Bob Pelton were working as an appliance salesman ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Bellflower Dad Who Threatened, Kidnapped Two Daughters Turns Up in Utah

    Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentKatelyn Litwin (left) and Natalya Litwin (right)​The was an Amber Alert out this morning for 34-year-old Bellflower man Stephen Andrew Litwin, who was believed by L.A. County sheriff's deputies to have kidnapped his two young daughters Sunday at about 10: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    The Race For District Attorney: Mario Trujillo Close To A Decision

    Mario Trujillo is considering a run for D.A.​There are at least two challenges for the career prosecutors considering whether to run for D.A. 1) How to deal with Carmen Trutanich, who has told supporters that he will run if Steve Cooley retires, and who would be the frontrunner. And 2) How to deal ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 20, 2011

    Sundance's Prodigal Children Return

    Film festival programmed like re-discovery channel

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    French Bulldog Thief Strikes Again, Running Off With $3,000 Orange County Purebred

    Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentDuarte resident Darryl Cole stole one French bulldog too many​Updated after the jump with the dog thief's "obsessive compulsive" history. Originally posted at 12:53 p.m. French bulldogs are super cute, we'll admit. Especially in holiday sweaters. But 20-year- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Two Missing Akita Show Dogs Worth $350,000 Found In Compton; Corgis Still At Large

    puppydogwebAre you my mother?​Update: The remaining Corgis show up in Compton! Stay tuned for how, and by whom, they were found. Trace and Didi, two fluffy show dogs who were stolen Tuesday -- one worth $250,000 and the other $100,000 -- jumped into the arms of owner Kristina Rickard yesterda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Surprise: Rest Of The Shoo-Ins Win* California State Senate, Assembly And Congressional Districts In Election 2010, Banding Together For Mass Extermination Of Opponents

    In a startling upset, Gerrymandering Congressman Howard Berman wins again​*OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in. But -- thanks to sleazy incumbent fixing of elections in California by the Berman brothers -- the new crop of California Senators, Assemblymen and Congressm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Rescued: A starved dog named "Courage" Arrested: a Bellflower veterinarian technician

    How sickening people are, but how amazing animals can be. "Courage" is the name of a dog who was unlucky enough to be owned by a young woman who allegedly starved him. He was rescued, clinging to life and at half his weight, in the aging Los Angeles suburb of Bellflower.​ The Southeast Area A ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 10, 2009

    Street Cred

    At her new Hollywood restaurant, Susan Feniger puts the cart before the hors d’oeuvre

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Villaraigosa & Garcetti Backed the Arrested Anti-Gang Expert Alex Sanchez

    In a shocking development in the gang world today, the FBI has arrested high-profile anti-gang expert Alex Sanchez at his Bellflower home on federal racketeering charges, according to the Associated Press. Homies Unidos Executive Director Alex SanchezAs executive director of the Los Angeles-based, n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    Octo-Mom: Who's Wagging the Dog Now?

    "Octo-Mom Gave Up Med School for Babies" trumpets the headline on RadarOnline, followed by a blurb outlining how Nadya Suleman, who burst to fame, if not fortune, last January when she gave birth to octuplets in Bellflower, had once planned to become a psychiatrist -- before her 14 kids got in the w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Mile Wide/Inch Deep Dept. The results of next week's L.A. City Attorney race will be seen as an indicator of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's clout. L.A. TimesKicker Cop Justified A lawyer for the El Monte Police Officer Association claimed the televised kick to the head of suspect Richard Rodriguez was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Phil Spector Found Guilty Famed music producer Phil Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 death of sometime actress Lana Clarkson. He faces a prison sentence of 18 years to life. L.A. DailyUrban League The L.A. Dodgers' opening home game was marked by a parking-lot stabbing and v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2009

    OctoBucks: More Needed by Nadya Suleman

    It's official: OctoMom Nadya Suleman is "considering" asking for federal assistance under the Women, Infants and Children program. Suleman, who famously gave birth to octuplets in Bellflower last January, had shortly thereafter told her Today show interviewer that she was not on welfare -- a stateme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    LA Weekly's Interview with Will Oldham: On Acting, Hollywood, the Nature of the Press, and Facebook

    Yesterday Will Oldham, aka Bonnie Prince Billy, did an instore performance at Amoeba Records on Sunset, and West Coast Sound's Nikki Darling was there to report on the scene: Will Oldham gets French pedicures and shows them off while wearing flip-flops and Hawaiian board shorts. That's the first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    CalTrans Slammed in Flintridge Crash Laura Olhasso, the mayor of La Canada Flintridge, claimed that CalTrans has ignored her town's concerns about runaway trucks on Angeles Crest Highway. A big rig killed two people and injured 12 Wednesday when its driver lost control and struck several vehicles be ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    Octomom as Reproductive Lightning Rod

    Do the prolife and prochoice sides in L.A. finally agree on something?

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Send in the Tow Trucks Public hearings will soon be held to gather comments on plans to speed traffic during rush hours on Pico and Olympic boulevards. LA TimesSign of the Times The recession began with Chevy and Washington Mutual signage being draped with canvas and now the AIG corporate logo has b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    OctoDrama: How the Octuplets Story Keeps Evolving

    When we first heard about the birth of eight infants in Bellflower last January, there was no sign that the story of Nadya Suleman, now better known as OctoMom, would become a modern fable about fame and public disgust. Today pundits and late-night TV comics attribute our hunger for OctoMom news to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    OctoMom's Apocalyptic Naming of Her Brood

    Amid her chaotic homecoming and the continuing shenanigans at 2051 Madonna Lane, La Habra, OctoMom Nadya Suleman's naming of her eight newborns has largely flown under the media's radar. Still, as the infants are released in twos by Kaiser Permanente in Bellflower, it's clear Suleman is intent on be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Octuplet Mom Update: The Circus Continues

    Ever since octuplet mother Nadya Suleman was released February 6 from a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower, her public image has steadily plummeted  southward. Her early, somewhat-disparaging nickname, Octo-Mom, seems to have come from talk radio, probably KFI. By the time she checked ou ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 19, 2009

    Whither the Econocalypse? Scenes From L.A. Tech Month

    On the precipice of a tech revolution

  • News

    February 12, 2009

    Bellflower Water Bills Skyrocket

    A Los Angeles suburb's water wars make the Kremlin look efficient

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Octuplets' Mom: The Mother of All PR Nightmares

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  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Octuplets' Mom Leaves Kaiser

    The Associated Press reports that Nadya Suleman, the 33-year-old single mother who gave birth to eight children January 26, has left the hospital. She returns to Whittier and an uncertain future. Initially there had been an outpouring of public astonishment and elation over the seemingly miraculous ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Octuplets' Mom and the Public: Where's the Love?

    An Associated Press story indicates that Nadya Suleman, the Whittier mother of octuplets, shouldn't hold her breath waiting for the kindness of strangers. While parents of multiple-birth babies are usually showered with gifts from an adoring public, it seems that the nature of these particular birth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Octuplet Blacklash

    It had to happen. Immediately after the birth of the Bellflower octuplets, TV anchors cooed and newspapers trembled with feelgood reports of the miraculous C-section. It wasn't long, however, for the births to reveal the fear and anger about immigration and race that simmer just below the surface of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Homeless Man Was Torched With Flare Robert Winton of the L.A. Times reports Deputy D.A. William Hodgman's charge that Ben Matthew Martin set fire to John Robert McGraham (not, as reported, "McGrath") with a road flare after dousing the homeless man with gasoline in an L.A. alley last fall. Martin, a ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 25, 2008

    Chai Thung: Isaan Also Rises

    The unexpected Thai restaurant

  • Film+TV

    August 14, 2008

    Exiles on Main Street: Searching for the Ghosts of Bunker Hill's Native American Past

    Resuscitated 1961 documentary recalls stark lives of L.A.'s urban Indians

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    The Giant Doughnuts of Los Angeles

    Resuscitated 1961 documentary recalls stark lives of L.A.'s urban Indians

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    Trucker Talk

    Resuscitated 1961 documentary recalls stark lives of L.A.'s urban Indians

  • Eat+Drink

    January 15, 2004

    Two Guys Walk Into a Bar . . .

    Resuscitated 1961 documentary recalls stark lives of L.A.'s urban Indians

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    If It Happened Here

    A bioterrorism attack on Los Angeles might look a lot like this

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    A Draining Problem

    Cleaning up the ocean pits environmentalists against local cities

  • Eat+Drink

    May 13, 1999

    The Falafel Truth

    A fine Westside sandwich

  • Eat+Drink

    December 10, 1998

    American Pie

    A fine Westside sandwich

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