Vernon

The nearly 2,500 workers affected by the closure of the Farmer John meat processing plant in Vernon are set to get millions for employment training and services.

Members of Congress asked the federal government to help clean up toxic lead contamination from a former battery recycling plant outside Los Angeles.

After 90 years in Vernon, the Farmer John meat packing plant is closing due to the rising cost of doing business, leaving some 2,500 workers out of a job. State and local leaders, however, are training workers to get them new jobs. Macy Jenkins reports Feb. 15, 2023.

Firefighters today extricated a woman from a vehicle that split in half when it crashed into a Metro Blue Line train on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles. The condition of the woman was not immediately known, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. Firefighters and paramedics were dispatched at 3:43 p.m. to 1688 E. Vernon Ave. There was also a…

A Metro Blue line train crashes in downtown LA, splitting a car in half. As seen on air on Dec. 22, 2022.

One Vernon man is turning bicycle scraps into custom creations. He takes nothing and turns it into something and now he is making a name for himself in the bicycle work.

One Vernon man known as the “scrap father,” is making a name for himself in the bicycling world by turning bicycle scraps into custom creations.

The Farmer John meat-packing plant in Vernon — a frequent target of protests by animal-rights advocates critical of the treatment of pigs at the facility — will close next year, with its Virginia-based owner today citing the rising costs of doing business in California.