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The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the death of Diego Rios a homicide. On Thursday, the LA County Deputy Medical Examiner’s office released its autopsy and toxicology findings. Its “summary and opinion narrative” reads in part: “The cause of death is cardiopulmonary arrest due to effects of cocaine and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the setting of prone physical restraint. The manner of death is homicide due to volitional human involvement regardless of the intent of any individuals’ actions.” Click on the story for a link to the full autopsy and toxicology report. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Military personnel pride themselves on being rugged and resilient, but even they aren’t immune to mental health challenges.
Claremont Little League’s 65th spring season got underway at 8 a.m. Saturday with three games at College Park and one at Griffith Park. In the majors, the Angels rode an Emiliano De La Cruz extra innings grand slam to a 5-3 win against the Mariners. The JV Twins topped the Pirates, 12-10. The farm division Rockhounds and Bulls tied, 4-4. The junior Dodgers beat the Brewers, 14-7. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
“Most young musical hobbyists opt out early, understandably discouraged by that inevitable, bruising first wave of disappointment and degradation. Others soldier on. Why? Some because it’s the only remotely marketable skill they possess. Most toil away at related day jobs and keep their dreams alive by night. And though a few of my contemporaries have risen up the ranks to respectability and acclaim, most of us are still kicking around the lower rungs, if not content with our lot, resigned.” Photo/Christopher Lockett
The Foothill Gold Line project segment from Glendora to Pomona is now more than 81% complete and remains on budget and on course for an early January 2025 substantial completion, according to Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority Chief Executive Officer, Habib F. Balian. Crews are focused on completing light rail stations, which are 65% done, and […]
Make sure to keep up with physician check-ups and preventive screenings. It’s important to “know your numbers” when it comes to your health.
For many, being tasked to write a column about healthy living would be a welcome chance to offer personal tips on how they have kept Father Time, Mother Nature, and/or gravity at bay.
In 2018, Sustainable Claremont began utilizing a small plot behind the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, meeting place to turn hundreds of pounds of old food scraps into usable compost, a mix of decaying organic matter that can used as fertilizer.
Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but that’s no reason to stop thinking about matters of the heart, because February is American Heart Month.
“For more than 10 years, St. Ambrose Episcopal Church has served our houseless neighbors in Claremont by offering showers and hot meals several times a week. This has been a meaningful and life-changing ministry for us and for our guests. But, as the parable goes, ‘We shouldn’t just be pulling people out of the river. We should go upstream to find out who’s pushing them in.’ So, our congregation began asking some bigger questions about the struggle of our houseless guests.” Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff
Growing up in Mobile, Alabama, 73-year-old Linda Perkins attended segregated schools and overcame various harsh challenges, all in the pursuit of knowledge. “We always got the leftover books from white people. You know, they were like 50 years old,” Perkins said. “That was the reality of Black people down there. But in spite of all that, Black people helped each other.” Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
“As a campus community devoted to openness, learning and mutual respect, we need to find our way to common ground in the face of sharply divergent commitments. We must affirm our values, recommitting to what unites us, and rather than heeding a call for repudiation and isolation, we must open inquiry, and reassert our human ties. Pomona opens doors, we don’t close them.” Photo/courtesy of Pomona College
Claremont Courier Event Calendar: February 23 – March 2, 2024
Big crowds flocked to California Botanic Garden’s Family Bird Festival on Sunday. The event showcased a variety of native birds, including the red-tailed hawk, great horned owl, and the incredible peregrine falcon, which can fly up to 240 mph and snatch prey right out of the air. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
By Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com About 100 mask-wearing Claremont Colleges students weathered steady rainfall Monday to take part in “5C walk out for Palestine” at Pomona College’s Marston Quad. The 1:30 p.m. protest, organized by Pomona Divest Apartheid, focused on the college’s endowment investments and included students banging on pots with plastic cutlery and chants […]
About ½ inch of rain had fallen in Claremont by mid-day Monday when this photo was taken along Padua Avenue. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch Monday that is in effect through Wednesday morning, when showers should dissipate. Local mountains should see about a foot of snow above 7,500 feet. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
“The caregiver at Claremont Manor, aptly named ‘Mercy,’ was back for what would be her final check up on my 84-year-old father-in-law Glyn at about 9 p.m. Tuesday. ‘Yes,’ was all she said, after seeing that his breathing had become very shallow, his gasps for air inconsistent and further apart. It was time. The room was hushed when he finally let go about 10:15. Then it wasn’t. His daughter, who’d been holding his hand since Saturday, and who I’d seen cry only twice in 10 years, loosed decades of grief and worry.”