The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County was at its lowest amount for a Labor Day since 2004 today, at $2.728. And the average price was $2.711 — about a penny less — in Orange County. The Los Angeles County average price was unchanged today, one day after […]
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Labor Day closures
Government offices, courts, schools, libraries, banks and post offices will be closed today for the Labor Day holiday. Trash collection in the city of Los Angeles will be pushed back by one day, according to the Los Angeles Department of Public Works Bureau of Sanitation. All Metro-operated buses and trains will operate on a Sunday/holiday […]
Union members celebrate Labor Day with massive march and concert
Labor Day will be marked in Los Angeles today by a march, rally and barbecue in Wilmington and a music festival in Exposition Park. The theme of the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition’s 37th annual Labor Day March and Rally is “One Goal, Many Voices.” Thousands of union members, their families, supporters and friends, […]
Dodgers honor World War II internee, give away 40,000 team hats tonight
A World War II-era internee who became an Army staff sergeant will be honored as the Military Hero of the Game at today’s Los Angeles Dodgers-Arizona Diamondbacks game at Dodger Stadium. Jack Kunitomi of Los Angeles was drafted by the Army in 1944 after being in internment camps for Japanese-Americans and entered the intensive language […]
Automobile Club survey reveals Labor Day vacation hotspots for locals
The most popular destinations for Southern Californians traveling this Labor Day weekend will be San Diego, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Yosemite and Santa Catalina Island, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California. The list was drawn from an AAA survey of its travel agents. But other Labor Day figures previously provided by the Auto […]
