Underworld Turns

Woman, 64, dies after scuba diving off coast of Catalina Island

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has identified a woman who died after scuba diving off Catalina Island as 64-year-old Carolyn Alvarez, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Jan. 24 incident happened in the Casino Point underwater park, a spot popular among divers visiting Catalina Island hoping to see angel sharks, bat rays and Garibaldi, the state fish, among […]
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Responsibility to the last Holocaust survivors

All across the country, the stories we hear are heartbreakingly similar.

In Chicago, a Holocaust survivor and her husband struggled to afford groceries when their modest state cash benefit was abruptly cut off for months without explanation. Food assistance arrived “just at the moment it was most needed,” she said, easing the anxiety rooted in memories of hunger she endured as a child in ghettos and concentration camps.

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‘God, forgive me’: Man accused of deadly O.C. stabbing, running victim over

A 27-year-old Fullerton man has been arrested in connection with a grisly stabbing death followed by a hit-and-run, authorities confirmed to KTLA. The violence occurred just before 9 p.m. on Jan. 25, when 911 operators at the Fullerton Police Department received a call about a man who had been stabbed and run over near the intersection of […]
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Serial ‘windshield smasher’ terrorizing Los Angeles neighborhood again

A serial windshield smasher who seemingly targets parked vehicles at random has residents of a Los Angeles neighborhood frustrated and on edge. The man’s most recent rampage occurred in Silverlake Jan. 24, but he was also captured on surveillance cameras shattering windshields in the same area in November and, according to resident Mesa Dihl, the vandalism appears indiscriminate.   “As I […]
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