Mark Ridley-Thomas, who entered the race for Los Angeles County supervisor as a perceived underdog, opened a commanding lead over Bernard
C. Parks in early returns Tuesday, propelled by his promise to be a more strident advocate for working people and by millions of dollars in labor support.
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Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard
C. Parks, locked in a race for county supervisor, canceled campaign events for several hours Friday after his brother was hospitalized with a stroke.
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Over the last 20 years, Los Angeles County taxpayers have paid tens of millions of dollars to a Virginia-based company to perform work criticized repeatedly as inadequate by county officials.
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At least 19 Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital employees will be fired and 45 others disciplined after a breakdown in vetting allowed scores of people with criminal records to remain on staff even after background checks indicated their past crimes, Los Angeles County officials said Tuesday.
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If there is trouble to be found in county finances, officials worried it would be in the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement system – which has some 92,000 employees paying into the program and more than 50,000 benefit recipients.
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Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors passed a 5-year, $62-million plan Tuesday to improve mental health services, taking a step toward fulfilling a 5-year-old settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of children in foster care.
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Just as Los Angeles County government enters a season of belt tightening, more people each month are asking for its help.
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Like others classified by the Los Angeles County bureaucracy as a temporary student worker, Patricia Lopez, 51, was not temporary and not a student.
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About 75
USC students are being treated in a campus outbreak of a highly contagious gastrointestinal virus.
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Labor unions, whose money already has made this year’s race for Los Angeles County supervisor the most expensive ever, plan to spend millions more over the next eight weeks to elect their favored candidate, Mark Ridley-Thomas.
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