Next Stop - Huntington Beach, America's Surf CitySource: The New York Times
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S iconic Huntington Beach Pier is essentially a boardwalk peninsula, an ambling parade extending a third of a mile into the Pacific: fishermen, seal watchers, teenagers swinging shopping bags, retirees taking measure of a distant oil rig, boyfriends informin …
Risking Israel's ire, US takes 1,350 Palestinian refugees Source: Christian Science Monitor
Atlanta - The State Department confirmed today that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians – once the well-treated guests of Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society – will be resettled in the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.
Among Lowriders, U.S. Cars Still Reign SupremeSource: NPR
Lowrider culture still embraces the big-body, gas-guzzling cars of yesteryear. "Put it this way: GM hasn't designed a car that the lowrider automotive culture would accept for the last, wow, 30 years," says one enthusiast.
L.A. Gang Waged War To Eliminate Black PeopleSource: News One
A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate black people from a Southern California city through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday.

Coming back from a day in the sun after a some estimated 80,000 tourists flocked in for Long Beach's Gay Pride festival, they got more than just a parade, festival and crowded bars. An earthquake rocked downtown at prime time 8:39PM May 17th, 2009.

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L.A. County Jails checks inmates for illegal aliensSource: The L.A. Times
Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego will become the first counties in California to begin checking the immigration status of all inmates booked into jail as part of a national effort to identify and deport more illegal immigrants with criminal records.

I've come to realize that there is a great need to keep people in Southern California informed about seismic activity in the region. The U.S.
Woman murdered by her own accomplices for her laptopSource: Long Beach Press Telegram
Although it is sad that she was murdered for a computer, she should not have involved her own crime with other criminals. She deserved some jail time but not execution. Its a dog-eat dog world out there.
SoCal ports to start collecting environmental feeSource: The Sacramento Bee
LOS ANGELES - The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to begin collecting cargo container fees on Wednesday to help finance an ambitious clean-air initiative after a three-month delay and despite opposition from the federal agency that regulates the ports.
Doctors face inquest after California octuplet mother revelationsSource: NY Daily News
An uproar over the birth of octuplets was percolating Friday amid revelations the mother has six other kids and used fertility treatments to get pregnant again.
The medical establishment opened an investigation into why so many embryos were implanted in Nadya Suleman, 33, during …
Mild quake shakes Southern California Source: CNN
A light earthquake shook Southern California Thursday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
Don Ultang, Pioneer in Aerial Photography, Dies at 91 Source: The New York Times
Don Ultang, an early specialist in aerial photography who won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for photography for documenting an egregious, seemingly racially motivated assault on the field during a college football game, died on Sept. 18 in Johnston, Iowa, where he lived. He was 91.
Pastor hosts 'civil' presidential forumSource: CNN
The Rev. Rick Warren, often called America's most influential pastor, will be hosting Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain for what's being called the civil forum on the presidency.
Rick Warren will be hosting the civil forum on the presidency
Keep LA. Running: 5k/10k Run/WalkSource: Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Keep LA. Running, one of the oldest and most popular distance running events in Southern California, has raised over $1,000,000 for its beneficiary charities over the years.
Shady Scholarship at USCSource: Wall Street Journal
Lil' Romeo's scholarship to USC is a perfect L.A. story, involving a music mogul, a child TV star and basketball.
The Dog, the Cat and the Rat (YouTube Video)Source: YouTube
Some homeless guy in southern California (Santa Barbara) has a pet rat, cat, and dog. They get along, and it's the theme of a www.humanityascending.com promotional video that's very good. I like all three animals and hope my cat would get along with any pet rats.
Invasion of the SnakeheadsSource: smithsonianmag.com
The scene is a sheriff's office near a mountain lake, where a hunter and his dog have been found dead. The sheriff sets a bright orange hunting vest on his desk in front of an anxious woman. She nods, identifying it as her husband's. "He loved that dog," she says, crying.