Three people were shot at a Westside park last month. One of them died. And that's in one of L.A.'s better neighborhoods.Los Angeles parks sometimes have a l
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David Ryu was elected to the L.A. City Council on Tuesday, riding a tide of anti-development anger to a surprise win over Councilman Tom LaBonge's hand-picked s
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The L.A. City Council voted 14-1 today to increase the city's minimum wage to $15 by 2020. Councilman Mitch Englander, the council's only Republican, was the
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What a small and strange election we just had.David Ryu has defeated Carolyn Ramsay in the race to replace the irreplaceable City Councilman Tom LaBonge in Council D
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Mayor Eric Garcetti can rightly take credit for the city's $15 minimum wage, which the L.A. City Council approved today. In his two years in office, no other ini
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If you haven't chosen yet from the shortest Los Angeles-area ballot (for a non-special election) in awhile, here are your reminders about who is running, and whe
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There's a dark corner of the far right-wing moronosphere that believes homosexuality is a learned behavior that can be drilled out of people through conversion
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We've seen similar burglaries, but they almost always involved bad guys breaking in and grabbing treasure from the display cases of jewelry stores.Security vide
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Attention class warriors: The Los Angeles Business Journal just came out with its annual Wealthiest Angelenos list of 2015, and it is mildly interesting!South Africa
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This isn't the Disneyland of your youth. Single-day tickets are $99. Annual passports come with optional payment plans. You could fly to New York for less.But st
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Eight people were injured when a camera boom fell at DJ Steve Aoki's free concert downtown over the weekend, a fire official said.The injuries were all minor, Lo
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Critics of the L.A. City Council have been warning for years about the slow creep of Sacramento culture. Seven of the body's 15 members used to serve in the Legi
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