Panorama-City News

About 3,800 customers in Panorama City were without power Tuesday after a vehicle sheared a fire hydrant, sending a fountain of water into power lines, the Department of Water and Power officials said.

Crews worked Sunday morning to clean-up a muddy mess caused by a six-inch water main break near Panorama City, a utility official said.

A 24-year-old mother who was reported missing after failing to make it home from a Christmas party was found dead in the back seat of her car Monday by her brother, who had been searching the neighborhood for her.

It's not like Darren Carter didn't like his childhood. But, for a guy itching for a career in show business, raisin country wasn't in his future.

A car-to-car shooting under connector roads at the junction of two freeways in Pacoima left one man dead and police searching for several suspects.

Pa-Ord, a legendary noodle place. The real Ord Noodle has just opened on Sunset Blvd.

The TV personality, a childhood neighbour of the Jackson family, remembers his close friend the King of Pop, who died of an overdose on 25 June at the age of 50 David Gest Man in the mirror: Michael Jackson, aged 21, in 1979 - the year in which his breakthrough solo album, Off the Wall, was released Photograph: Jim McCrary/Redferns The first time I ...

Officials said one man was slightly injured Thursday when an SUV crashed into a building housing a vocational school.

At 8:30 a.m., 5 1/2 hours into their Black Friday shopping spree, Samantha Garcia and three teenage friends were physically and financially spent, sitting slumped against a Glendale Galleria store window after busting their modest budgets on a dozen bags of clothes.

Kaiser Permanente, the state's largest nonprofit HMO, has been ordered to pay a former Valencia middle school administrator $5 million after its physicians misinterpreted signs of an impending stroke that left him partially paralyzed and disabled for life.

Re "Obama's slow pace sends a message" : The message that Obama's "slow pace" is sending is the same message all of his inept and logic-defying policy proposals and decisions send.

Police have a man in custody who allegedly shot at several police officers in the North Hills area east of Panorama City, said Los Angeles Police Department Lt.

Re "Pierce Farm and its hands-on vet training needs protection" : My daughter is a veterinarian vTechnician student at Los Angeles Pierce College in the Agricultural Science Program under the direction of Dr.Leland S. Shapiro.

Amcal Multi-Housing Inc. has broken ground on its 75-unit Andalucia Heights apartments in the Westlake District, one of a number of projects either under way or completed this year by the Agoura Hills-based affordable housing specialist, including a 55-unit project called Villas Las Americas that opened this summer in Panorama City.

Los Angeles Chief of Police William Bratton visits the Los Angeles Daily News April 14, 2008.

When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant ruled on October 19 that the Los Angeles City Council's two-year moratorium on medical-marijuana dispensaries was illegal, invalidating the ban, few legal experts seemed surprised - including City Attorney Carmen Trutanich , whose aide promptly admitted that the City Council had indeed been in ...

Los Angeles Chief of Police William Bratton visits the Los Angeles Daily News April 14, 2008.

Joaquin Navarro, a 20-year-old Latino, was shot and killed Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the 14600 block of Blythe Street in Panorama City , according to Los Angeles County coroner's officials.

Four-month-old Andrew Garcia was fatally shot in the head in Van Nuys. A 17-year-old was charged Tuesday with murder, attempted murder and carjacking in a gang-related shooting that left a 4-month-old boy dead and two adults wounded, officials said.

A teenager is set to be arraigned today in connection with the fatal shooting of 4-month-old Andrew Garcia.