It wasn't too long ago that the job of LAUSD board member was among the most miserable in America. Setting aside the fact that each of the seven board members ea
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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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The L.A. area's hit-and-run epidemic is bad enough.The typical perpetrator is drunk, here illegally, or simply afraid of the consequences. But prosecutors say th
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Former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges that he obstructed a federal investigation into inmate abuse in 2011. Tana
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Only a week after Venice residents decried the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man near the boardwalk, area civil rights activists are asking why an Africa
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UPDATE at 5:20 p.m., Thursday, May 14:Â Sanchez's spokesman says Harris is playing "follow the leader."Rep. Loretta Sanchez entered the race for U.S. Senate to
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This week, Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell unveiled plans for a new bicycle-pedestrian span connecting Atwater Village to a popular public path along the
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Remember all that "Kumbaya" we sung about a lovely summer of low gas prices and mad road trips? Yeah? No.Sorry to inform you that the fuel market is about as volatil
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Good thing you got Coachella and all its bikini-clad madness out of your system, because May is being gloomier than a cold day at the beach in June.In this mad world
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To live and drive in Los Angeles is to know the utter powerlessness of getting a parking ticket from the Los Angeles Parking Violations Bureau. Bad enough the ever-p
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L.A.'s minimum wage will rise to $15 an hour by July 1, 2020, under a plan approved today by the City Council's Economic Development Committee.The measure ?
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We were surprised when previous years' homeless numbers for Los Angeles didn't match up to our sense of how hard the Great Recession had hit the ultra-poor.
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