Angels

And the glory of angels was all around. The Bible describes angels as being mediums of God?s power who execute God?s will, revealing themselves to individual humans and sometimes to a whole nation as on the night of Christ?s birth. For Lorraine Watkiss of La Crescenta, the first angel came to her one evening in the midst of great pain, according to her husband, John Watkiss. She witnessed a golden glow on the ceiling of her bedroom. The glow transformed into an angelic face, framed by an elaborate rose petal headdress.

St. Luke's of the Mountains Anglican Church will host its annual Angel Breakfast on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. for children ages 2 to 8 years of age. St. Luke's of the Mountains will be filled with angels who will sing and tell the participants why they have so much Christmas joy. Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles are encouraged to bring young children at 8:30 a.m. to enjoy all the angels during breakfast, craft,...

Baseball Babe Ruth Red Sox 10, Angels 3 The Sox continued their recent trend of putting big numbers up late in beating the Angels 10-3. Angel pitcher Chris Parker held the Sox to one hit through three innings. Clayton Weirick was almost as good, holding the Angels to one run over the first three innings. The Angels threatened to put real distance between the teams in the top of the fourth when they started with a single, two walks and a single off David Bywater.

La Canada Junior Baseball/Softball Scores Babe Ruth Division Yankees (Woe) - 13 Orioles (Hanson) - 3 The Yankees’ Ace Taylor Brink and Closer Joseph Cadiff faced off against Orioles’ pitchers including Sam Baldwin Chris Longo in a game in which the Yankees came out on top. Kevin Dalrymple (a triple and a single). Will Peterman (a double), Brink (two singles) and Mark Saatzer, Jamie Krasner, Harry Kightlinger, John Love and Cadiff, all of whom had singles, led the team The highlight for the Orioles’ offense was Josh Hanson’s prodigious home run to the right field wall and a double by Longo.

Not everyone has angels. Those who do have paid the price. They pay the price of loss. They pay the price of pain. They pay the price of bereavement. I write this on May 1, 2011. Tonight, Osama bin Laden is dead. The celebration can be somber, or not. There are jokes about Donald Trump. (“He won’t believe Osama bin Laden is dead until he sees the death certificate.”) There are jokes about President Obama. There are jokes about bin Laden. There are phone calls and tweets, posts and emails.

The discovery of a man's body alongside a guardrail on the Angeles Crest Highway Thursday prompted an all-day road closure as authorities investigated the scene well into the evening. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials did not release the man's identity, but confirmed that it was not a missing 20th Century Fox executive, 57-year-old Gavin Smith, who was last seen May 1 near his Oak Park home. Los Angeles County coroner spokesman Craig Harvey said the man may have suffered a gunshot wound, but an official cause of death was pending further investigation.

The body found on Angeles Crest Highway Thursday morning has been identified as 35-year-old Noe Vasquez, a Los Angeles County coroner's official said today. Coroners officials have not yet completed an autopsy on Vasquez to determine his cause of death, although authorities on Thursday said he may have died of a gunshot wound. Larry Dietz, a spokesman for the cororner's office, said officials have not yet determined Vasquez' city of residence. Vasquez' body was discovered near the Mile 27 marker on Angeles Crest Highway above La Cañada Flintridge early Thursday morning, prompting authorities to close the road in both directions.

Some of the beauty to be found in the Angeles National Forest this spring can exact a heavy price. Areas burned by the Station fire are sprouting a bush with a lovely purple flower known as the poodle-dog bush. But when it comes to this plant, hikers would do well to head warnings from officials: look, but don't touch. That's because the flowering plant,  Turricula parryi, can cause poison oak-like skin rashes and blisters. The plant thrives in areas where the soil has been ravaged by flash floods or, as in this case, fire.

This post has been updated. See below. A man found dead early Thursday morning along Angeles Crest Highway just above La Cañada Flintridge suffered a possible gunshot wound, said Los Angeles County Coroner spokesman Craig Harvey. California Highway Patrol officers have closed the Crest to traffic as Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. detectives investigate the scene. The body was discovered near the first turnout above the Angeles National Forest snow gate, about 2.7 miles north of the Foothill (210)

Two motorcyclists suffered serious injuries after driving off the side of Angeles Crest Highway on Sunday. At 10:52 a.m. volunteers with Montrose Search and Rescue helped a motorcyclist who had driven over the side of the road at Angeles Crest near Upper Big Tujunga Road, at mile marker 42. At 12:32 p.m. crews rescued another motorcyclist who went over the side of the road in the same area, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department....

Stretches of Upper Big Tujunga Canyon Road and Angeles Forest Highway will close late Thursday night in anticipation of icy and dangerous conditions caused by the storm expected to hit the area. Upper Big Tujunga will be closed from Angeles Forest to Angeles Crest Highway. Angeles Forest will be closed from Aliso Canyon Road to Upper Big Tujunga, according to the Los Angeles County Public Works Department. The closure goes into effect at 11:30 p.m. Thursday. The National Weather Service predicts heavy rain and snow in elevations above 4,500 to 5,500 feet in the storm to hit the region early Friday.

An ursine troublemaker was tranquilized and taken deep into the Angeles National Forest on Tuesday morning after repeat visits to area homes, but foothills residents shouldn't hold their breath waiting for their next “Yogi Bear” moment. California Fish and Game officials say bear visits are not on the rise in and around La Cañada Flintridge, despite the fact that bears are waking up earlier than usual this year because of the warm winter. “Normally they hibernate and they go down and they lie around all winter,” Fish and Game spokesman Andrew Hughan said.

A woman who spent a frozen night trapped in her car in the Angeles National Forest met the people who may have saved her life Wednesday. Tracy Granger, 56,, is still recovering from severe injuries after her truck plunged 350 feet off Angeles Forest Highway in icy conditions on March 25. Granger was traveling from Pasadena to her Juniper Hills home at the time. After her husband contacted Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the Montrose Search and Rescue Team and Antelope Valley Search and Rescue launched a search the following morning.

A 76-year-old hiker who was reported missing Monday morning was found dead Monday afternoon in the Switzer Falls campground area of the Angeles National Forest. The body of Richard Derusha, of Bellflower, was located by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies around 4:25 p.m., L.A. County coroner's officials confirmed. His body was recovered on Tuesday, as darkness prevented a helicopter from being used on Monday night, and the body's location was too remote for it to be carried out by rescue personnel.