Boulevard News

Turns out that the old Avco multiplex on Wilshire Boulevard has all sorts of asbestos issues that need to be dealt with, which means that the six-screen iPic Entertainment complex is in a holding pattern.

When the Calvert family moved out of their Payran Street home and into a new residence on South McDowell Boulevard last week, they knew they had to make some adjustments to living in a busier part of town.

Assault with a deadly weapon: A 37-year-old woman suffered a non-life-threatening injury when she was shot in the face after interrupting a burglary in her home shortly after midnight Thursday in the 1200 block of East Flora Street.

A man visiting San Diego from overseas was killed after driving into oncoming traffic on a busy Encinitas road on Thursday night.

Later, the driver hit another car on Palm Avenue near the Interstate 805 and continued driving.

At Twist Eatery , the new bakery cafA© that opened on La Brea Boulevard this past Monday, the menu covers Morocco, California and the Mediterranean, in the form of sandwiches, bowls and salads.

Less than two months after a private investigator videotaped the owner of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market allegedly bringing unsupervised animal products into his store, two local kosher restaurants have dropped the Rabbinical Council of California as their glatt kosher certifier.

Lennar Multifamily Investors LLC has filed an application to build a 179-unit apartment project in Redwood City, the latest in a string of proposals that could bring nearly 1,200 housing units to the downtown.

Bicyclists ride through the intersection of Sycamore Lane and Russell Boulevard in Davis using the designated bicycle stop light.

The resort is offering a special souvenir button to annual pass-holders who carpool to the Monstrous Summer All-Nighter that takes place between 6 a.m. May 24 and 6 a.m. May 25.

These soon-to-be-newcomers will literally be able to step outside their door and line up for a Lesher Center production or cross the street to McCovey's for a plate of chicken wings.

Just after midnight Wednesday, officers responded to the 7800-block of La Mesa Boulevard for what was reported as street fighting.

Bouchon in Yountville is only one of three French restaurants to make the Top 100 this year.

A power failure has cut electricity to 15,254 homes and businesses centered in the Del Rosa area of San Bernardino, according to Southern California Edison's website.

The public is invited at 11 a.m. Tuesday for the grand opening of Harvey Milk Promenade Park at Third Street and The Promenade.

The Pig's Trough, one of Farrell's signature desserts from the 1970's, is coming to a Farrell's near Knott's Berry Farm.

A stranded Swedish family of seven, made penniless by airfare changes due to a family emergency, should be on its way home today, Sunday, May 19, 2013, thanks to sheriff's deputies and reservists sympathetic to their plight.

The California Highway Patrol responded about 6:30 p.m. to reports of two men fleeing from a crash in the 17800 block of South Mountain Road, officials said.

Several dozen people Saturday lined up outside a Hawthorne liquor store to purchase tickets for the much-anticipated Powerball drawing.

The Walnut Creek City Council is set to decide Tuesday on the fate of 1500 California, a project that calls for 141 apartments and nearly 18,000 square feet of retail/restaurant space in two six-story buildings.