Valencia News

La Quinta High School class of 2012 students celebrate during commencement exercises Thursday evening.

The end of the school year is fast approaching, and with it, the deadline for middle school and high school students to fulfill their mandatory community service obligations .

In what is unofficially and affectionately called the "heart of the fast pitch nation", Southern California continues to send some of the best softball players in the country to the 2012 Women's College World Series.

A 12-year-old Valencia boy died this week hours after falling off his bicycle, a county Coroner's official said Thursday.

Cedar Point seems to have a new wing-style roller coaster in the works that will change the way the park looks next year.

When Oscar-nominated performance artist, filmmaker and comedian Larry Hankin lived in a Volkswagen bus for a year in North Beach in the 1960s, he learned a thing or two about life on the streets - influencing his perspective on everything from art to politics.

Pump up your bike tires, dust off you roller skates or lace up your walking shoes, because Sunday Streets is returning to the Mission on Sunday for the second month in a row.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles has opened a new outpatient center in Valencia, where pediatric patients can receive a variety of medical services.

Cake judge Vicki Lewis and Youth Project advisory board member John Lutz. The event is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Youth Project.

College of the Canyons' 62 nursing students took part in a pinning ceremony Wednesday to mark the end of their training to become nurses.

An enraged taxi driver beat up his rider with a tire iron in San Francisco's Polk Gulch neighborhood early Wednesday, police said.

Jeannene Przyblyski's office at the San Francisco Art Institute looks down into the windows of residential North Beach.

Being recruited to guide a troop of girls and boys through the art and craft of music reviewing came to me unexpectedly, but it fit my active ongoing responsibilities as both writer and parent.

This Wednesday, Caltrain fields input on plans to restore service, the SF Transit Riders Union holds a fundraising party, andA Sunday Streets opens Valencia and 24th Streets once again.

"They woke her up, in bed asleep with a gun in her face," Orange Cove Police Chief Frank Steenport said.

Thieves are stealing hard-to-replace third-row seats from the back of SUVs across the county, a detective said Tuesday.

A man was arrested after allegedly choking a taxi driver and then trying to drive away in the cab in San Francisco's Mission District early this morning, police said.

A 48-year-old man suffered lacerations to the head and was taken to San Francisco General Hospital Sunday afternoon after being assaulted by another man at this weekend's Carnaval celebration.

U.S. film director and producer Michael Bay poses below a model of the Bumblebee Autobot character at the premiere launch for the Transformers-The Ride at Universal Studios Singapore theme park, part of Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore.

WWII veteran and U.S. Marine Corps pilot Tom Johnson, right, leads the Pledge of Allegiance as Duane Harte in his U.S. Navy uniform salutes during the 2012 Memorial Day Tribute held at Eternal Valley Memorial Park and Mortuary in Newhall on Monday.