Articles by Garrett Therolf Page 2

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today considered instituting a permanent, independent investigator to keep watch over the county’s troubled hospital and clinic system. Read more

More than 10% of the Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital employees whose backgrounds were examined by the county had criminal histories, according to a long-awaited analysis released Monday that also found the King nurses provided inferior care. Read more

An 85-year-old man who was allegedly irritated by people parking near his motor home in rural Riverside County is accused of shooting the leg of a motorist who unknowingly parked too close, authorities said. Read more

An Inglewood Police Department officer was involved this afternoonin the shooting death of a homeless man, a witness and the Los Angeles County coroner’s office reported. Read more

Traffic on the southbound 101 Freeway and Interstate 5 ground to a halt this morning after a tractor-trailer carrying 6,000 gallons of propane fuel overturned, authorities said. Read more

Taco trucks are back. Read more

Controversy surrounding a powerful Los Angeles labor leader threatened Thursday to alter the landscape beneath the county’s hottest political race, which has been fueled by record amounts of union spending. Read more

The closure of emergency and inpatient services at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital quietly passed its one-year anniversary this week, and county officials acknowledged in interviews that they remain far from fulfilling their promise of restoring it to full operation. Read more

California’s 80,000 foster children – nearly 27,000 in Los Angeles County – are underserved by deeply stressed courts and government agencies, and the hearings that decide their living situations often last no more than 15 minutes, according to a report released Friday. Read more