On July 11, the Republican majority in the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to the 2019 funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Hu
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The criminal saga of former Los Angeles Unified School District Board president Refugio Ref? Rodriguez ended last week with resignation from the board and his plea o
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Five days after a dramatic police standoff captured national headlines and ended in shocking tragedy, the Silver Lake Trader Joe's remained boarded up. Neighbors, c
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California is once again in the Trump administration's crosshairs, with the EPA proposing to strip the Golden State of its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissio
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For a sizable number of Los Angeles' homeless people,opportunities to maintain a personal hygiene schedule can be tricky.That's where Lava Mae comes in. The San Fran
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When a caterpillar enters its chrysalis stage, it begins to transform from an immature, inactive larva into a beaming butterfly. Myron Tobin, a 57-year-old South Cen
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Immigration ? particularly the diabolical saga at the U.S.-Mexico border, with children being taken from their parents' arms and placed in detention camps ? has
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At an L.A. City Council meeting on Tuesday, Joumana Silyan-Saba, a director in Mayor Garcetti's office of public safety, could barely get through a sentence without
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Urban coyote sightings reported via social media have multiplied over the last several years. Once confined to?hillside communities that encroach on the predators'
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As fallout over the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy continues, attorneys representing migrants apprehended along California's southern borde
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The outlook for immigrant rights advocates looked increasingly bleak this past week, with millions of lives slung precariously in the balance of a GOP legislative vo
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Several African-American candidates for an opening on the?Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Board of Trustees are challenging the board's decision t
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