The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) is forecasting heavy rainfall, thunderstorms with hail and gusty winds expected to arrive in Los Angeles County on Friday morning…
The National Weather Service is predicting about an inch of rain during this latest storm. Added: December 11, 2014 | By Caroline Aoyagi-Stom @SCE_CarolineA Southern California may still be drying out…
Prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Francisco announced Dec. 9 that they were filing a suit against Uber, the mobile app ride-sharing service based in SF, alleging false and misleading…
The Obama administration announced on Dec. 8 new federal guidelines expanding protections for racial and ethnic profiling to encompass religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender and gender identity. The new…
IT is official. Vigan City in Ilocos Sur has been named one of the New 7 Wonders Cities of the World. Also dubbed as urban wonders, these cities are put…
RELIEF. Gratitude. Hope. These are what Filipinos in America feel in the aftermath of yet another super typhoon, just a year after the Philippines was devastated by Super Typhoon Yolanda,…
I HAVE learned two new terms from reading the postings of self-anointed social media vigilantes and reformists: bobo-tante and tanga-suporta. These are a play on words, meaning stupid voter (bobo…
Prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Francisco announced Dec. 9 that they were filing a suit against Uber, the mobile app ride-sharing service based in SF, alleging false and misleading…
It’s because everywhere, you see good cheers, as the season bring tidings of comfort and joy. Everyone seems decided to be happy, living, fulfilled, generous, peaceful, contented, joyful, festive and emotionally…
A FILIPINO postal service worker in Fremont, Calif. was charged with mail theft for allegedly stealing numerous cellphones meant to be delivered to customers. Romeo Moog Talag, 56, of Hayward…
AB 60 takes effect on Jan. 1 STARTING Jan 1. 2015, undocumented immigrants in California will be able to apply for a state driver’s license under Assembly Bill 60 (AB…
A HUGE fire occurred the morning of Monday Dec. 8 in downtown Los Angeles and the nearby Westlake area, destroying an entire apartment complex under construction and temporarily shutting down…
ON Monday, Dec. 8, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed an ambitious earthquake plan calling for a retrofitting of thousands of at-risk buildings. The report released Monday afternoon detailed action…
THE US Supreme Court on Monday, Dec. 8 refused to consider a BP case claiming that the company has been forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to claimants…
TWELVE hours exceeds the average workday. But for the last 47 years, that has been the norm for accountant Victor Sy. “I’m a workaholic,” he said. “I guess it’s a…
ON Monday, Dec. 8, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed an ambitious earthquake plan calling for a retrofitting of thousands of at-risk buildings. The report released Monday afternoon detailed action…
A HUGE fire occurred the morning of Monday Dec. 8 in downtown Los Angeles and the nearby Westlake area, destroying an entire apartment complex under construction and temporarily shutting down…
AB 60 takes effect on Jan. 1 STARTING Jan 1. 2015, undocumented immigrants in California will be able to apply for a state driver’s license under Assembly Bill 60 (AB…
A Filipino-American man from Anaheim was charged on Tuesday, Dec. 2, with six counts of grand theft and four counts of elder abuse after allegedly swindling $50,000 from six individuals in…
A FILIPINO postal service worker in Fremont, Calif. was charged with mail theft for allegedly stealing numerous cellphones meant to be delivered to customers. Romeo Moog Talag, 56, of Hayward…
“ Advent is the time to strengthen the uneven and crooked shapes of our lives, to broaden our horizons, and to reform of our ways.” THERE is still a great need…
By: Charisse Trinidad The Gawad Kalinga Community proudly hosted the book launch of renowned British journalist Thomas Graham’s newly published book Gawad Kalinga’s The Genius Of The Poor. The event…
AT a recent book signing, Miss America 2001 was approached and hugged by a girl who admitted she had pondered ending her life for some time. She attended the event,…
JUST when everyone thought that the worst has passed, another super typhoon is doomed to devastate parts of the Philippines once more. A year after the dreadful Yolanda (international name:…
THIS is the question The Filipino Channel’s daily newscast Balitang America asked its viewers, amid nationwide protests denouncing two separate grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Mo. and another in Staten Island, NY,…
FOR those with children in high school, the next big expense item they can look forward to, or shall we say, worry about are the college expenses that are just…
ON November 20, 2014, President Obama announced a series of executive actions that would benefit some undocumented aliens and improve some business-related aspects of the immigration process. Due to the…
LET’S discuss reasons why you should consider filing, even you are not required to: • You expect a refund. You have credits that can generate a refund – from taxes…
ROSARIO Juarez, a former female employee of AutoZone, Inc., the auto-parts retailer, sued her employer for discriminating against her because she was a woman, for demoting her after learning she…
ARE you facing a mountain of debt that you can’t pay and don’t know what to do about it? Perhaps this situation is causing you a lot of sleepless nights…
