Articles by Hector Becerra

778 articles since 1998

October becomes warmest on record for L.A.

California | Local | By Hector Becerra | November 1, 2008
Thanks to an 11-day heating streak, October 2008 has become Los Angeles’ toastiest in history. Read more
 

October shaping up as L.A.’s lost summer

California | Local | By Hector Becerra | October 28, 2008
Summer turned out to be a cooler than normal dud this year. Read more
 

Former king of L.A. casino hits a string of bad luck

California | Local | By Hector Becerra | October 21, 2008
George Hardie once ran the world’s largest card club. Read more
 

Man arrested in Coachella rollover crash

California | Local | By Hector Becerra | October 20, 2008
A 27-year-old man was arrested after allegedly walking away from a rollover crash on Highway 111 in Coachella that killed one of his passengers and critically injured another, authorities said today. Read more
 

L.A. activist has a lot on the ball besides soccer

California | Local | By Hector Becerra | October 17, 2008
The Los Angeles city councilman wanted to preserve an old bridge. Read more
 

Cruel end for a man who asked for little

California | Local | By Hector Becerra and Richard Winton | October 11, 2008
He had called the multi-ethnic Mid-Wilshire neighborhood home for more than a decade. Read more
 

Activist founded U.S.’s largest Latino human services group

California | Local | By Hector Becerra | September 29, 2008
Dionicio Morales, an early giant of Eastside activism who came out of the agricultural fields of Moorpark to create the nation’s largest Latino human services provider, has died. Read more
 

Sermon on lessons of Metrolink crash

California | Local | By Hector Becerra | September 20, 2008
For more than 13 hours, Pastor Tony Amatangelo had prayed and watched over his friend and fellow minister as he lay in a county hospital after being pulled from the wreckage of Metrolink 111. Read more
 

One Metrolink crash changed his life, the other took it away

California | Local | By Victoria Kim, Ari B. Bloomekatz, and Hector Becerra | September 16, 2008
Three years ago, Gregory Lintner walked away with only scrapes and bruises from a Metrolink train crash in Glendale that killed 11 people. Read more
 

USC freshman injured in Metrolink crash in critical condition

California | Local | By Hector Becerra | September 15, 2008
Eighteen-year-old Katie Longawa, a freshman at USC, was on her first trip home from college Friday afternoon. Read more
 
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