In an effort to curb the number of persons killed and injured in DUI-related crashes, the Alhambra Police Department will conduct a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday in the area of Garfield and Linda Vista avenues.
Barnes Park at the corner of South Ramona and Harding avenues will be filled on Sunday with people partaking in the fun and food at the 15th annual Los Angeles Taiwanese American Heritage Festival.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a new outreach initiative that brings an array of interactive art and film programming to nine communities in Southern California, including Redlands, San Bernardino, Altadena, Monterey Park, Hacienda Heights, Montebello, Compton, Inglewood, and Torrance.
Whether you are an enthusiastic supporter of the Affordable Care Act or among its harshest critics, at least one thing about health care costs is unarguable: The financial and bureaucratic labyrinth of charges and fees and insurance coverage is impenetrable, infuriating and sometimes devastating for millions of Americans.
Hospitals within Marin sometimes charge tens of thousands of dollars more for the same treatment - a common occurrence in cities and counties across the country, according to data the government released publicly for the first time Wednesday.
District attorney's officials Wednesday honored two Monterey Park men who took on a hammer-wielding robber, a Claremont woman who chased and helped capture a burglar who broke into her neighbor's home and a Palmdale man who helped capture a man who was attacking his girlfriend in Sunland.
For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same city.