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Friday, August 29, 2008

Police on the hunt for serial killer

California | Local | By Joel Rubin and Richard Winton | August 29, 2008
An elusive serial killer, linked to 10 slayings in South Los Angeles and Inglewood over nearly two decades, resurfaced early last year to kill again, Los Angeles police officials said. Read more
 

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Explosive substance prompts evacuation of South Los Angeles neighborhood

California | Local | By Howard Blume | August 23, 2008
Police evacuated a two-square-block area of South Los Angeles for four hours Friday after two 55-gallon drums of an explosive substance were found near a home. Read more
 

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

LAPD joins fight against trash dumping in South Los Angeles

California | Local | By Robert J. Lopez | August 5, 2008
A Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief vowed Monday to crack down on those who illegally dump refuse on public streets and alleys in South Los Angeles. Read more
 

Monday, July 7, 2008

Community struggles in anonymity

California | Local | By Jill Leovy | July 7, 2008
Vivian Bowers works in a neighborhood that has gone undercover. Read more
 

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Big Mike has the gangs in his sights

California | Local | By Joe Mozingo | June 28, 2008
Big Mike hitches up in front of Jordan High School in Watts like a bull snuffling for trouble. Read more
 

Saturday, June 21, 2008

California | Local | By Andrew Blankstein and Ari B. Bloomekatz, Cara Mia Dimassa | June 21, 2008
In Starkeisha Brown’s small circle of South Los Angeles, it was no secret that her 5-year-old son was the victim of abuse. Read more
 

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Changing demographics come home to roost in South L.A.

California | Local | By Jessica Garrison | May 25, 2008
When her neighbor’s roosters and chickens persisted in running through her yard, G. Stone took matters into her own hands. Read more
 

Saturday, May 3, 2008

New job for an old gang

California | Local | May 3, 2008
Their name, the Businessmen, was derived from the slang term “taking care of business.” Read more
 

Saturday, April 26, 2008

In poorest schools, fear, despair rule

California | Local | By Mitchell L and Sberg | April 26, 2008
A survey of 6,008 South Los Angeles high school students shows that many are frightened by violence in school, deeply dissatisfied with their choices of college preparatory classes, and – perhaps most striking – exhibit symptoms of clinical depression. Read more
 

Thursday, April 24, 2008

L.A. City Council plants seeds of urban wetlands

California | Local | By Jill Leovy | April 24, 2008
The City Council this week unanimously approved construction of an unusual urban wetland park on an old Metropolitan Transportation Authority maintenance yard in South Los Angeles. Read more
 

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Carroll is a life force at street level

Sports | By Kurt Streeter | April 20, 2008
It could have been a USC football game, the narrow sidelines at the Coliseum. Read more
 

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Drew to get nursing, research facility

California | Local | By John L. Mitchell | April 19, 2008
At Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, the announcement Friday that construction would soon begin on a $43-million research and nursing school building did more than lift spirits around the campus. Read more
 

Monday, April 7, 2008

Hospital plan draws criticism

California | Local | By Garrett Therolf | April 7, 2008
Some health experts and community leaders have criticized news that a small private hospital is the prime – and perhaps only – candidate for the contract to reopen Martin Luther King-Harbor Hospital, signaling possible continuing hurdles to reestablishing a hospital for the county’s most underserved communities. Read more
 

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Small hospital thinks big

California | Local | By Garrett Therolf | March 29, 2008
A small private hospital in Long Beach has emerged as the leading candidate to take on one of the biggest healthcare challenges in Southern California: reopening Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, some key Los Angeles County officials said. Read more
 

Friday, March 28, 2008

Living with staggering violence

California | Local | By Scott Gold | March 28, 2008
The sun splashed onto the roof of a church, filling the faces of two golden statues of angels who opened their arms to the sky. Read more
 

Thursday, March 27, 2008

13 L.A. street gang members indicted in sale of PCP

California | Local | By Andrew Blankstein | March 27, 2008
Federal prosecutors Wednesday announced two grand jury indictments against 13 members of the Grape Street Crips, a street gang suspected of manufacturing and distributing large quantities of the drug PCP throughout Southern California. Read more
 

Friday, February 29, 2008

Attack fuels community fears

California | Local | February 29, 2008
On the way home from school Thursday, 13-year-old Magda Gomez and his friends walked past the South Los Angeles intersection where five youths and three adults were shot the day before. Read more
 

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

California in Brief | LOS ANGELES COUNTY - 2 found dead in fire at residence

California | Local | By Charles Ornstein | December 26, 2007
A man and a woman died Tuesday evening in a house fire in an unincorporated area of south Los Angeles County, authorities said. Read more
 

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Senator taps unions, firms to aid charity

California | Local | By Jack Leonard | December 22, 2007
As he vies for a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, state Sen. Read more
 

Monday, December 10, 2007

Life has its own story line

California | Local | By John L. Mitchell | December 10, 2007
In an old classroom trailer on the grounds of Camp David Gonzalez detention center, Alex Munoz teaches a handful of youthful offenders the art of making films. Read more
 
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