Life Connected

Swimmer Jamal Hill says he was standing on top of the podium, having just qualified for his first Paralympics, when he realized he wanted to do more. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on August 27, 2021.

He’s an Olympic sprinter but Michael Norman hasn’t forgotten where he came from. In fact, Norman went back to Murrieta to give shoes to his youth track team, a moment they will never forget. Fred Roggin shares the story.

Monica Mendez and Jessica Chow both faced unplanned pregnancies at a young age. Each made a different choice. “When I saw the pregnancy stick, I thought my life was over,” said Chow, who decided to have an abortion. “I don’t want to do this, I want to keep my child,” Mendez, who had her child, said. Mendez and Chow...

A local woman is adjusting to needing help from the people she made a career of helping.

Through the Red Songbird Foundation, reality TV star Jason Wahler and singer-songwriter Hilary Roberts are giving out scholarships for rehabilitation, in hopes that more people get the help they need.

The big goal, Chelsea Vonchaz says, is to eliminate the stigma around periods and make sure homeless women have access to these necessary products. Carolyn Johnson and Halie Cook report for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019.

A Los Angeles Police Department officer has made it his mission to mentor young children and keep them away from drugs, gangs, crime and bullying.