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Headlines: Torrance Pays $750,000 to Owner of Car Vandalized With Swastika By...
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L.A. City Council Advances Ordinance to Fine Catalytic Converter Thieves...
The City Council tentatively approved an ordinance today that would prohibit unlawful possession of catalytic converters in an effort to curb the rise in thefts the city has experienced in the past...
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I’m a History Teacher at LAUSD, This Is Why I’m Striking
School staff danced in the street to the off-kilter rhythm of a cowbell. Umbrellas flipped and blew into fences. A normally taciturn teacher grabbed a bullhorn and urged passing cars to honk or at...
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The L.A. River Runs Through All of Us, Here Are Four Places to Visit, Take In...
Without the Los Angeles River, there would be no Los Angeles. The 51-mile waterway, which stretches from Canoga Park to Long Beach and San Pedro Bay, with numerous tributaries branching off along the...
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Headlines: Dodgers Fan Base Ranked Second ‘Most Annoying’ in MLB, According...
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Remembering Redondo Beach’s Forgotten Indigenous, Salt, and Surf History
L.A. TACO is embarking on its biggest mission yet: to create a taco and food guide for every single neighborhood in Los Angeles! Along the way, we will also be releasing brief histories of each...
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The Strike is Over: The LAUSD Meets Union’s Demand of 30% Pay Raise and Fully...
The union representing 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District service workers who just concluded a three-day strike that shuttered the nation’s second-largest school system has reached a tentative...
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Metro is Hiring 48 New Transit Security Officers to Help Public Safety Issue...
Two weeks after announcing the deployment of nearly 200 unarmed Metro Ambassadors aboard its trains and buses, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced Monday it had...
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Headlines: Killercop.com Accused Of Putting ‘Bounties’ on LAPD Officers’...
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How Pedro Pascal Became a Latino Sex Symbol
“Do you think you’re a heartthrob?” “I don’t think I’m a…” Pedro Pascal begins to respond before the polygraph examiner interrupts him during a recent interview on Vanity Fair. “He’s lying.” Pedro...
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L.A. District Attorney George Gascón Charges Six CHP Officers and a...
A California Highway Patrol sergeant and six CHP officers were charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault under the color of authority in the death of a Burbank man who was restrained after...
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A Brief History of Palmdale: Rogue Drones, Afroman’s Roots, and High Stress...
In 1962, Palmdale became the first city within the Antelope Valley to be incorporated into L.A. County. The region’s history goes back at least 11,000 years, as the foothills of the Antelope Valley,...
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Street Vendors Activating L.A. Public Spaces: Abandoned Pay Phones at Pico-Union
On a busy corner of the Pico-Union district in Los Angeles stands what, at first glance, looks like an interactive conceptual art piece. It consists of a stylized mural painted against the stuccoed...
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Compton’s Viral Tagged-Up Taquería Makes Some of L.A.’s Best Guisados and...
Unless you live in the neighborhood or someone told you about it, you probably would never know of the home-cooked sazón waiting for you inside Uruapan Taco. The taquería has absolutely no online...
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Who Was Abbot Kinney? And More Forgotten History of Venice, California
From one of the most prosperous oil towns in America to the so-called “Slum by the Sea” to Silicon Beach, Venice is a town that has gone through more dramatic transformations than any place in L.A....
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Spot Check! Chinese Soul Food, A New Taco Omakase, Wagyu Sloppy Joes, and...
Colibri’s Ricardo Zarate with a dish of charred snap peas, aji amarillo labneh, and spicy garlic Chef Ricardo Zarate is opening a new Italian-Peruvian-inspired location of his Colibri Pop-Up with Love...
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Street Vendor Advocates Are Demanding the Implementation of a Bill That Will...
Street vendors and vendor advocates gathered Tuesday morning outside of the Board of Supervisors office to demand two things: better protection for street vendors and the implementation of the...
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Headlines: Thieves Break Into Palms Taquería, Steal Register And Tips
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The Dodgers Seek IPhone Heartbeat Data From Wife Of Stadium Beating Victim
The Dodgers have requested that a Los Angeles judge order the wife of Rafael Reyna, a fan who was hospitalized with a serious brain injury after allegedly being attacked in the stadium’s parking lot...
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A Brief History of Lancaster: Gold Mining, Flat-Earthers, Judy Garland, and...
As discussed in our recent look into the history of neighboring Palmdale, the Antelope Valley, the modern day region where Lancaster is found, was an important part of a historic trade route used by...
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