David Mendez

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. — The sun was about to set behind a row of condominiums on Redondo Beach’s Catalina Avenue, about a block away from the Redondo Pier. There was a break in the cars that had been whizzing past, and in the space between, two…

At approximately 4:40 p.m. last Friday, 13-year-old Ciara Smith rolled her bicycle down a sidewalk curb cut, following a friend, as the two appeared ready to head south across Knob Hill Avenue at Pacific Coast Highway. For reasons unclear, her bike…

LOS ANGELES — By 10 p.m. Tuesday, at least a dozen activists had taken to Cattaraugus Avenue’s Interstate 10 underpass, handcarts and wheeled dollies in tow, to right what they considered an injustice: dozens of boulders, placed to deter unhoused…

Redondo Union High School’s 101-year-old pipe organ was among the first of its kind when installed. But as years pass, the instrument gathers dust in the auditorium’s walls. by David Mendez The first time Walter “Skip” Kennon played the Redondo Union…

The two young teens — one dressed as a panda, the other wearing a costume from the 1995 Michael Jordan movie “Space Jam” — approached the gate at the front of the haunted house on Lomax Lane cautiously.…