Adelle Nazarian

SKID ROW, LOS ANGELES, California — “Prayer changes things,” said Latasha Knighten, as she stood in the heart of the one of the most dangerous and destitute areas of Downtown, Los Angeles. She was one of over 30 volunteers helping

Students at the University of California Los Angeles held a protest in solidarity with demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country on Tuesday, as they blasted the grand jury’s decision not to prosecute police officer Darren Wilson in the

LOS ANGELES, California — Over 50 protestors occupied and marched down a section of the off-ramp on the 10 Freeway at La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles to voice their anger, disdain and unrest with a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury’s

A group of hecklers shouted and threw rocks at SeaWorld employees as they tried to rescue a wounded sea lion in Ocean Beach Sunday morning. “Thank goodness [the rocks] didn’t make contact and no one was injured, including the animal,

President Obama’s unilateral action to grant executive amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in the United States has shed light on a host of failures that are likely to take place with regard to the logistics of processing the applications.

Kim Kardashian West was blocked from entering India this coming weekend amid what their government described as a “visa issue,” although they refused to disclose the exact reason behind the visa cancellation.  The India trip was part of Kardashian’s tour

The 15th annual Latin Grammy Awards took ample opportunity on Thursday night to express their sentiments and outright support for President Barack Obama’s decision to proceed with executive amnesty; a move that will provide protection for up to 5 million

A lunchtime campus brawl at a Santa Barbara County, California high school turned violent, producing vicious attacks on law enforcement officers with food, water bottles, and punches being thrown. The fight resulted in a 90-minute lockdown of the school, as

A series of threatening messages over anonymous social media app Yik Yak resulted in Manhattan Beach’s Costa High School decision to close for two days as authorities investigated the threats. The first message was posted on Monday and read, “If

A Silicon Valley-based startup has developed a five-foot tall, burly-bodied robotic security guard, that resembles a Dalek, and has already deployed a fleet of five of them to patrol Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. Knightscope masterminded the creation of the K5, according to Gizmodo,

The California Army National Guard is among six other National Guard units, totaling approximately 1,200 soldiers, that have been ordered to prepare for deployment to Ebola-stricken West Africa in order to help thwart the spread of the deadly hemorrhagic virus. 

A cruise ship docked in San Pedro, California on Sunday after 172 of its over 4,100 passengers fell ill with the highly-contagious norovirus. The patients became ill over the course of a nearly monthlong trip which traveled from Los Angeles

In a story that would make anyone go “ewe,” a 23-year-old Fresno State computer engineering student has been accused of copulating with a sheep in order to “relieve stress” resulting from his final exams.  The student, whose identity has not

Amazon has found a way to turn lemons into lemonade by donating 1,000 of its troubled Fire phones to advancing the mission of a free Ebola prevention app called Ebola Care. Aid workers in West Africa who are combatting the deadly

A new shuffle in leadership at online microblogging site Reddit has ushered in interim CEO Ellen Pao, who has become the company’s new face just three months before her high-profile sex discrimination case is set to appear before a San

Less than two months after the Orange County Register stopped contracting with rival newspaper the Los Angeles Times for delivery services, the Register asked reporters and other staff members to help deliver their newspapers.  On Friday, the Times wrote that, “The unusual requests signal that problems persist

Following an 11-year manhunt for an America’s Most Wanted fugitive and alleged Toonerville street gang member accused of the murders of four people, authorities have finally captured Eduardo Rodriguez (born Juan Carlos Campos Gamino) — using Facebook. The investigator who cracked the

OAKLAND, California –Nearly 20,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses throughout Northern California took to the streets in protest on Tuesday and Wednesday, touting at least 30 agenda items, including calls for Ebola preparedness and complaints about staff cuts. Their goal: to bring

Thieves who stole artificial turf from a Southern California little league took more than just bases from the four and six-year-olds who relied on the astroturf to practice and play baseball. They’ve also made it more dangerous for the little

California health authorities identified a norovirus outbreak as being the source of a gastrointestinal illness that was responsible for infecting at least 60 people at the Sofitel Hotel in San Francisco between late October and November, and sending at least