San Pedro News Archives

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will select a new police chief at a time when crime is declining and the city is enjoying a prolonged respite from racial strife, sparing him from the political perils that bloodied the three previous mayors facing similar appointments.

In the predawn hours of August 10, 2009, 31-year-old Kjonna Lemar Oggs was arrested at his home in the 200 block of Armona Court in San Pedro.

A blood and bone marrow drive will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday on behalf of 9-year-old Devin Hamilton, a San Pedro girl diagnosed with leukemia.

Michael Jackson fans around the world readied for the singer's last bow Tuesday in a film that captures rehearsals for his aborted concert stand last summer.

People are lining up for seasonal flu shots throughout Los Angeles County. And the H1N1 vaccine is on its way.

A judge ruled Monday that the city of Los Angeles' ban on new medical marijuana dispensaries was illegal, a decision cheered by vendors but one that city and county officials said would not stop their push to close down shady operators.

The San Pedro Science Center on Saturday is hosting a local celebration of the International Day of Climate Action with a focus on native peoples.

SAN PEDRO, CA, October 21, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Soccer season is starting.

Maybe the art of letter writing is dead. Certainly it has fallen on hard times: the Internet, text messaging and Facebook have all taken their toll, and now pen gets put to paper only for funerals and weddings, or so it seems.

Are you brave enough to walk the docks of Port Town or visit the "Ghosts of Atlantis" haunted house? Or maybe wacky pirates are more your thing? Whatever your Halloween pleasure, Sea Scare 2009, from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium should do the trick .

SAN PEDRO BREWHAHA awaits you! 2009-10-19 08:46:44 - Its a fun-filled Novemberfest in Downtown San Pedro's Waterfront and Arts District gem, the Warner Grand Theatre.

Council hosts new SP principal. Jeanette Stevens, new principal of San Pedro High School, will be guest speaker at the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council meeting.

Larry Walters is barely visible as his helium balloon-rigged aluminum lawnchair drifts skyward after tether lines broke during what was supposed to be a short flight, Friday, July 2, 1982.

It started as a lark, a humorous little exercise in one playwright's mind. It ended up, after a lot of correspondence of a highly humorous kind, as a play.

Libby West and David Graham star in "Deathtrap." Ira Levin's twist-filled mystery is nearly 30 years removed from its remarkable four-year Broadway run and subsequent hit movie adaptation.

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium will celebrate the bounty of the sea at its Sea Fair from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at 3720 Stephen M. White Drive.

The Cabrillo Whalewatch program is seeking enthusiastic volunteers to act as naturalists on whale-watching trips and provide whale lectures at schools.

A San Pedro physician pleaded no contest on Thursday to sexually assaulting two women.

A 21-year-old local man was killed late Thursday when his speeding car struck the center divider and rolled over several times on a Rancho Palos Verdes roadway.

Commercial space on the ground floor of San Pedro's Centre Street Lofts will be turned into business offices for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 13.

"Feathers or fur, big or small, God loves them all." St. Peter's Episcopal Church in San Pedro will host a special service and blessing-of-the-animals ceremony in honor of St.

San Pedro. Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro recently honored the Soroptimist International of Los Angeles Harbor for its 16 years of philanthropic support.

Good morning from the City Desk, where we're enjoying the slight nip in the air.

The video recording reportedly shows a man or woman driving up in a gray or silver Toyota FJ Cruiser, getting out of the vehicle and snatching the bull mastiff puppy named Bubba.

Willenburg Special Education Center in San Pedro will host an open house at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex's new crosscurrents were evident this week, with approvals of projects and federal funds to improve the quality of life in what was once among the least hospitable regions in Southern California.

The double bass is not such a strange device. It's really just a large wooden box, with a couple of holes to let the sound out and a few strings stretched over the box to make those sounds.

SAN PEDRO, CA, October 01, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The AAA Foundation For Traffic Safety reports that nine out of ten cars have cloudy or dirty headlights.