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January 3, 2001 | HUGO MARTIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Work crews started building a recreation center for the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts at the same time that construction began on the $360-million Staples Center downtown. That was in the summer of 1998. Since then, Staples Center has hosted more than a year of sports and concerts, as well as the Democratic National Convention.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 3, 2001 | HUGO MARTIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Work crews started building a recreation center for the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts at the same time that construction began on the $360-million Staples Center downtown. That was in the summer of 1998. Since then, Staples Center has hosted more than a year of sports and concerts, as well as the Democratic National Convention.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 8, 1998 | BETH SHUSTER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A Los Angeles Housing Authority commissioner has resigned, firing off a sharply worded series of letters--including one to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development--alleging serious mismanagement, misuse of public funds and other problems in the agency that oversees the city's low-income public housing. Diane L.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 11, 1996 | HENRY WEINSTEIN, TIMES LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER
Federal and local law enforcement officers early Wednesday arrested nine Southern California men and one woman who authorities said controlled drug trafficking and instilled fear in residents at two South-Central Los Angeles housing projects. The FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department made the arrests in predawn raids at seven Los Angeles residences, one in Carson, one in Riverside and one in Rancho Cucamonga.
NEWS
April 17, 1994 | CYNTHIA MENDENHALL, Cynthia Mendenhall, 32, is in her third term as president of the residents' advisory committee at the Imperial Courts housing project in South-Central
Cynthia Mendenhall, 32, is in her third term as president of the residents' advisory committee at the Imperial Courts housing project in South-Central. As she puts it, she "came back from a long ways" as a former gang member to become a civic leader, and that checkered past is one of the things that has driven her to turn her volunteer position into a full-time, non-paying job. "I don't want the girls to turn out like we did," she says.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 14, 1992 | STEPHEN BRAUN and CHRIS WOODYARD, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Police dispersed a large gathering of residents and gang members in the Imperial Courts housing project in South Los Angeles after a Saturday morning party deteriorated into brawls, leaving one person wounded by gunfire. Five people were arrested. It was the third consecutive weekend that police moved in to break up unity parties among large numbers of rival Crips and Bloods gang factions.