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6+ min ago (231+ words) December 5, 2025 / 8:09 AM PST / CBS LA Helms Bakery in Culver City, known for its iconic list of pastries, has announced it will be closing its doors after facing "immense challenges," its chef says. Chef Sang Yoon, who leads Helms Bakery, posted a message on Instagram confirming the news. Yoon said the bakery's final day of service will be on Dec. 14. "It makes me very sad to share that we'll be closing our doors at our current location," Yoon wrote. "I've been incredibly proud of what we've been able to share with our community, and it's been an honor to see this place come alive again." Yoon reopened Helms in November 2024 after it had closed once before in 1969 due to rising costs and the increase of "mass-produced supermarket bread." Helms originally opened in 1931 and quickly became an iconic spot in Los Angeles,…...

25+ min ago (218+ words) The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index, released Friday in a preliminary version, rose to 53.3 early this month from a final reading of 51 in November. The index beat the 52 mark that economists had forecast but is down considerably from 71.7 in January. Expectations for year-ahead inflation dipped to 4.1% from 4.5% last month to the lowest level since January when Donald Trump returned to the White House and began imposing sweeping taxes " tariffs " on imports from countries around the world. Economists warn that importers pay the tariffs and then try to pass along the cost to their customers through higher prices. Trump has reached a series of deals with major U.S. trading partners, including the European Union and Japan, that brought his tariffs down from the punishingly high levels he'd threatened in the spring. Still, the average U.S. tariff rate has climbed from 2.4% in January…...

40+ min ago (229+ words) Miraculously, no one was injured in the crash. Macy Jenkins reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Dec. 4, 2025. A SUV slammed into a beauty salon Thursday afternoon in La Palma, narrowly missing two people sitting by the front window. Security camera video from inside Magic Beauty on Valley View Street in the Orange County community captured the crash. The SUV smashed through the front of the building, sending an employee scrambling for cover. The SUV plowed into chairs and a desk inside the store, just missing the employee and a customer seated next to the door with her hair in curlers and a plastic cap. "She just heard the noise, then she's just moving," said Jason Lee, husband of the employee. Lee said he was stunned when his wife of 38 years sent him the frightening security camera video. "I'm just still…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago (913+ words) You probably can think of a million reasons you're too anxious to leave your job right now. It seems like no one is hiring. Companies that are won't meet your pay requirements. And what if you make a change and then get laid off? The mood is dark. In the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Expectations released Nov. 7, consumers said they believe it's increasingly likely the unemployment rate will rise in the next 12 months, and they'll struggle to find a job if they lose their current one. That pessimism has some people clinging to their jobs for dear life. But the consequences go beyond feeling anxious. You may also feel stuck. It wasn't long ago that jobs were plentiful and companies were competing to keep or steal top talent by offering new perks and big pay bumps. Left and right,…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago (862+ words) Republicans" win in a closely-watched special House election in Tennessee can"t mask what is shaping up to be an increasingly challenging 2026 for President Trump and the GOP." Indeed, with midterms often turning into referendums on the party in power, Trump is facing a number of headwinds suggesting that his final two years in office may feature Democratic control of at least one chamber of Congress." To be sure, this has less to do with anything Democrats are doing and everything to do with how Trump is handling domestic and foreign policy. Domestically, Trump"s approval rating sits at just 42% according to the RealClearPolitics aggregate, amid growing discontent with his approach to key issues. On Trump"s handling of the overall economy, just 43% of voters approve according to a recent Yahoo News survey, while a majority (55%) disapprove. That is a…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago (458+ words) Get ready, ya filthy animals, because "Home Alone" is 35 this year and Disney+ is celebrating from the heart of Hollywood to pizza parlors and airports and television sets across the country. The biggest, quite literally, will soon arrive at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles in the form of a ginormous gingerbread recreation of the McCallister family home. It's not to scale of the home in the movie, of course, but Disney+ is aiming to set a new Guinness world record for the largest-ever gingerbread house; it's designed to be 58 feet long, 42 feet wide and 25.6 feet tall. How much gingerbread does that take? Well, according to a news release from Disney+, the recipe for making the biggest gingerbread house ever seen on this planet requires 5,700 pounds of all-purpose flour and more than 4,200 eggs to make 4,400 gingerbread brick…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago (460+ words) For a state where folks are supposedly fleeing, Californians keep their homes for a long time. My trusty spreadsheet peeked at one yardstick of longevity: Attom's study on the average length of ownership for home sellers across the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the third quarter of 2025. This year's California sellers owned their homes for 11.2 years, the third-longest nationwide, and almost 3 years longer than the 8.4 years nationwide. Remember, California's stagnant population is not about people leaving for other states. It's largely due to woefully few Americans moving to the Golden State. The longest holding period was in Massachusetts, with sellers owning for 12.9 years, followed by Connecticut at 12.7 years. No. 4 was Rhode Island at 11 years, and Washington state was 10.7 years. Curiously, these states have some of the nation's most expensive homes. The shortest ownership period was in Maine, with…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago (479+ words) Q: The last time I drove on Coast Highway from Laguna Beach to Corona del Mar I noticed orangish-yellow dividers preventing you from making U-turns; I have never seen people doing that in all the years I have traveled that route. Why the orange dividers? " Jim Stedt, San Clemente A: To further keep motorists from making illegal " and dangerous " U-turns over double-yellow lines. Those channelizers " flexible, plastic poles " are "a preventative measure to highlight the painted median (double yellow lines) to motorists, especially at night, and deter cross-over collisions," said Nathan Abler, a Caltrans spokesperson. The project that installed them was finished in May 2024, a temporary fix. In the spring, Caltrans intends to remove the channelizers and put in what are called rumble strips " in this case, grooves in the roadway " from the School-State Park turnoff to Newport Coast Drive, to gently…...

2+ hour, 15+ min ago (663+ words) A statue of George Washington stands in the Rotunda at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) SACRAMENTO " I grew up a few miles from where George Washington and his Continental Army crossed the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on Hessian mercenary soldiers stationed in Trenton, N.J. Down on his luck, Washington launched this audacious military strike on Christmas, sending three groups (only one made it) across the ice-choked waters on small cargo boats during a ferocious storm. In my teen years, a friend and I re-enacted the crossing in his canoe. The river is only 300-feet wide at the crossing point and we attempted it on a summer day, but we mangled the metal boat on some rocks. Anyway, Washington's maneuvers " memorialized by a German-American artist in 1851 " were a turning point in the history of…...

2+ hour, 22+ min ago (39+ words) Weak Santa Ana winds will affect parts of Southern California before a gradual warmup begin on Sunday. Temperatures are expected to be in the 80s next week. Amber Lee's NEXT Weather forecast Amber Lee's NEXT Weather forecast...