Mayor Eric Garcetti went against type last week during his annual State of the City speech, offering an audacious promise:?We are here to end homelessness once and f
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As a mariachi in Boyle Heights, Luis Valdivia plays a bit of everything: trumpet, violin, a ukulele-sized guitar called the vihuela?and a very large, six-string acou
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer this week repeated a Trump administration claim that the Mara Salvatrucha gang has established its roots in the United States
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Twenty-five years after the riots burned through Los Angeles, pitting ethnic groups against one another and what seemed to be an entire city against the police, a ne
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When did you realize the riots had broken out? It's a simple enough question, and the nine Angelenos interviewed here — indeed, any Angeleno who lived thro
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La La Land has been criticized for its privileged, white view of a metropolis where nearly three out of four people are a minority. So why is City Hall celebrating t
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It's a first in the memory of local FBI agents: A man who robbed two banks in New York last month has been connected to a robbery in Los Angeles last week.It'
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When the riots struck in 1992, South Los Angeles was mostly composed of poor and working-class neighborhoods. The community?south of the 10 freeway was trying to rec
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You subscribe to a magazine or join a gym for a special rate and months later realize you're paying a lot more for renewals. And those fees keep hitting your ban
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Dreamers ? the young and undocumented who are protected under?the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created by President Obama ? have been all o
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Angelenos at the bottom of the economic ladder often pay a higher percentage of their income for rent, face greater risk of being confronted by police?and live in ar
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Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck is taking jabs from critics on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the L.A. riots. A normally considerate speaker, Beck is being
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