Gordon Tokumatsu

1 week ago | nbclosangeles.com | Gordon Tokumatsu |Jonathan Lloyd

A driver was killed Friday morning when his Audi crashed head-on into a tree, split apart and burned in a Lake Balboa neighborhood. The crash was reported at about 2 a.m. in the 17600 block of Victory Boulevard between White Oak and Encino avenues near the Sepulveda Basin Skate Park in the San Fernando Valley community. The car was traveling at high speed when it slammed into the tree outside a home with a security camera that captured the frightening sound of the crash.

1 week ago | nbcsandiego.com | Gordon Tokumatsu |Missael Soto

For most college graduates, it takes around four years to earn the opportunity to walk across the stage. For John Fong, that moment came nearly 60 years after he received his degree. In the back of his head, Fong didn't think this day would ever come. Like many veterans of his generation, he had answered a different call on June 13, 1968. "I was thinking, 'Too bad I couldn't walk,' but that's the way it goes," said Frong.

1 week ago | nbclosangeles.com | Gordon Tokumatsu |Missael Soto

For most college graduates, it takes around four years to earn the opportunity to walk across the stage. For John Fong, that moment came nearly 60 years after he received his degree. In the back of his head, Fong didn't think this day would ever come. Like many veterans of his generation, he had answered a different call on June 13, 1968. "I was thinking, 'Too bad I couldn't walk,' but that's the way it goes," said Frong.

1 week ago | nbclosangeles.com | Gordon Tokumatsu

An Altadena tattoo parlor that burned to ashes in the Eaton Fire in January is back in business and welcoming members of the LGBTQ+ community -- a major part of its business model. "It was the most incredibly devastating thing I've ever felt," Isabela Livingstone, owner of June Bug Tattoo Parlor, said about the fire. "I was sobbing for days. It made me physically ill."Today, the remnants of her shop sit in piles of scorched debris in a lot off North Fair Oaks Avenue.

2 weeks ago | nbcsandiego.com | Gordon Tokumatsu |Kendall Luther

After more than 30 farmworkers were detained in Ventura County in recent days, the region's farming community is living in terror and being pushed into the shadows, a coalition of immigration advocacy groups said Thursday. Among the 35 people detained, 23 of them were Mexican nationals while the rest had a varying national origin, according to 805UndocuFund Executive Director Primitiva Hernandez, who organized a rally at Ventura County's Government Center with other nonprofits Thursday.