The city of Los Angeles ended 2006 with the high-profile killings of two children: a 9-year-old girl in Angeleno Heights and a 14-year-old girl in Harbor Gateway who, police say, was targeted in part because of her race.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District is looking to develop low-cost apartments on as many as 12 campuses in an effort to help teachers find less expensive housing and live closer to their jobs.
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The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to draft a solar rooftop measure for the March 3 ballot, even though officials with the Department of Water and Power still don’t know what the initiative would do to electrical rates.
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One of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s close allies at the Department of Water and Power said Monday he would run for city controller, even though the mayor is already backing another candidate.
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Tanned, toned and looking as if he’s aged little in the 16 years since he left office, former
LAPD Chief Daryl
F. Gates returned to City Hall today to wade into a contentious debate over the issue of police enforcement and illegal immigrants.
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Three years ago, campaign finance experts watched with alarm as one-fifth of the money raised on behalf of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa came from “independent expenditures,” special interests with no limits on how much they could collect and spend.
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Two weeks ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District mailed voters what officials described as a “fact sheet” on Measure Q, a $7-billion construction bond on the Nov.
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and three City Council members have thrown their support behind a proposal to install enough rooftop solar panels on buildings across the city to power 100,000 residential customers of the Department of Water and Power by 2013.
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A judge on Friday sentenced onetime Los Angeles city commissioner Leland Wong to five years in state prison, bringing an end to Dist.
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Two law enforcement agencies have closed their investigations into former Los Angeles Airport Commissioner Ted Stein, a figure in the “pay-to-play” investigation that helped end the political career of former Mayor James
K. Hahn, according to correspondence obtained by The Times.
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