Two fresh-faced UCLA law students met Carlis Pegues with a smile, eagerly leading the frail, 64-year-old woman into a cramped office to hear her troubles. Pegues, they learned, is locked in a dispute…
Chanting “You can’t kill Africa,” dozens of people on Saturday marched from Los Angeles Police Department headquarters to skid row to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed homeless man during a…
As police continued their investigation Tuesday into the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in L.A.’s Skid Row, protesters marched on Los Angeles Police headquarters. Meanwhile, questions about the victim’s background and identity surfaced as…
Los Angeles Unified school board candidate Ref Rodriguez collected $21,000 in campaign donations from employees of his charter school network, Partnerships to Uplift Communities, in his bid to unseat incumbent Bennett Kayser in East Los Angeles’ District 5.…
In California, the effects of President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration reform could be staggering. Obama said his order will protect immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents, provided they pass a…
Dozens Of Countries Take In More Immigrants Per Capita Than The U.S. – NPR From the story: “…in absolute numbers, the U.S. is home to the most foreign-born people — 45.7 million in 2013.…
“We are human beings who live here,” Silvia Hernández says emphatically. She is speaking of Los Angeles’s notorious Skid Row, though she no longer lives there herself. Hernández doesn’t look back fondly on…
Authorities have released numbers on the weeklong clean-up effort in Skid Row from last month. This year, the Los Angeles City Council devoted an extra $2.2 million to the effort, spearheaded by District…
Los Angeles city and county workers launched a major effort Wednesday to clean up skid row and offer medical, mental health and social services to help an estimated 1,700 homeless people get off…
Los Angeles’s Skid Row is home to an increasingly older population of women, many of whom have experienced domestic and sexual abuse, according to a new report. The “Downtown Women’s Needs Assessment” found more…
East Los Angeles residents on Tuesday gave L.A. police chief Charlie Beck a mixed bag of unfavorable and tepid reviews of his last five years as head of the LAPD at a community…
Skid Row in downtown L.A. will get additional clean up crews and trash cans thanks to $3.7 million approved Tuesday by the City Council. The funding is part of Operation Healthy Streets, which…