California State University Super Saturday is a college fair designed to provide students and families from historically underserved communities with important information about preparing for, applying to, and graduating from college.
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Teens wow with business ideas
While many in South Los Angeles have spent the last few weeks worrying about the drama that has gripped the community with reports of murders, shootings and a gang vendetta, a group of 33 middle and high school young men have spent that same time and longer learning to think like a technology entrepreneur.
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Omega Psi Phi mentors boys through the Youth Leadership Conference
The men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. have mentored more than 5,000 boys in the Los Angeles area during the past 22 years through their Youth Leadership Conference.
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More Californians enrolled in Covered California plan
More Californians have enrolled in and are seeing the benefits of Covered California. That’s a finding taken from a recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Gas company starts testing in South L.A., Inglewood
As part of efforts to update and test its natural gas pipeline system throughout Central and Southern California, Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) on Monday will begin working in the city of Inglewood and in South Los Angeles.
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Federal oversight for mentally ill inmates
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department this week agreed to implement sweeping reforms in its jail system in hopes of, at best, eliminating recurring mistreatment of mentally ill inmates at the hands of deputies.
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Bill remembers local dam disaster; McCarthy nixes highway bill
Rep. Steve Knight (CA-25) has introduced legislation that would authorize a national memorial to commemorate the 425 Californians who died in the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon.
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Lancaster reduces sewer rates
Los Angeles County Sanitation District No. 14, which oversees much of the sewer system in Lancaster, recently approved an ordinance designed to help lower service charges for local rate payers. The reduced rates will reportedly take place immediately and should be seen on upcoming property tax bills in October.
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Activists respond to DOJ settlement
The Community Action League (TCAL) recently a press conference in response to the $2 million settlement in the Antelope Valley Section 8 discrimination case. Members of the community applauded the United States Department of Justice lawsuit settlement, noting that it marks the beginning of a “healing process” for residents.
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Search continues for Littlerock woman
Sheriff’s investigators and Littlerock residents are continuing to search for a missing 28-year-old mother. Monique “Mo” Figueroa has been missing since May, and her family believes she was abducted.
