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This delicious barley-based salad is adapted from “Ancient Grains for Modern Families” by Maria Speck (Ten Speed, $29.99). Speck used marinated dried figs in the salad. I substitute lightly candied fresh kumquats, an idea based on a quinoa salad that …

John Altobelli left his mark on Southern California baseball.
Altobelli coached Orange Coast College to four community college state championships and 705 wins in his 27 seasons leading Pirates baseball. He raised $3 million to transform OCC’s baseball facilities to …

A seemingly unbearable sorrow paralyzed Matt Mauser after his wife, Christina, died nearly one year ago, a victim of the helicopter crash in Calabasas that also took the lives of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and six others. His witty, …

Grieving has not been easy for the family of Sarah Chester and her 13-year-old daughter Payton, who were among nine passengers killed in last year’s Jan. 26 helicopter crash that also took the life of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and …

Tuesday, it will have been one year, exactly. A gloomy, lazy Sunday morning in Southern California changed, dramatically, as the news spread: Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and six other passengers and the pilot were in a helicopter that crashed …

An El Monte church that had been threatened this month with an arson attack over its condemnation of same-sex marriages was damaged early Saturday, Jan. 23, when someone threw a bomb at the building, the FBI said.
No one was …

One of the most infamous murder cases in the Inland area will be a focus of the second season premiere of the Oxygen show “Killer Motive” Saturday, Jan. 23 at 6 p.m.
The McStay case started with a family of …

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has announced that its Catholic Cemeteries and Mortuaries started offering contactless burial options due to state and local public health restrictions and high demand for funeral services.
Public health protocols limiting in-person appointments have created …

You know how sometimes a song gets stuck in your head? Even one that you haven’t heard in a very long time? Yesterday, while I was picnicking in a nearby park, “The Wayward Wind,” by Gogi Grant, traveled out of …

One person was taken to the hospital and more than a dozen people were left without a home after a fire broke out inside an apartment building in Miami, officials said.
City of Miami Police and Fire Rescue units have …