Articles by Olga R. Rodriguez

This remote farming town in northwestern Mexico has tried just about everything to rid itself of rats: cats, poison and even cash rewards for killing the thousands of rodents infesting businesses and destroying the corn harvest. Read more

It was the reporters who noticed first. Read more

For years, Downey’s claim to fame was being the place where Apollo spacecraft were built. Read more

Smoke rising from a gorge along Angeles Crest Highway on Thursday led emergency crews to a man who said he had been trapped in a crumpled minivan for three days after it plummeted down a 500-foot embankment. Read more

More than 100,000 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $400 million were seized in the first 10 days of California’s eradication program, the state attorney general’s office said. Read more

For 21 years, Darrell Forbis lived with anger and resentment against a mother he thought had abandoned him. Read more

Hundreds of students at South Los Angeles’ Jefferson High School celebrated the legacy of former school valedictorian Ralph J. Bunche on Thursday, the grandson of a former slave who became the first black American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more

Male patrons at gay bathhouses who were tested for the virus that causes AIDS were infected at a rate twice that of men tested in public clinics or community-based agencies, a new Los Angeles County study found. Read more

Talk about a bargain. Read more