Category: Local Politics

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Authorities today reminded Southlanders to take common-sense precautions as the 2013 fire season continues.

DOWNEY, Calif. — The city of Downey was one of 10 communities named 2013 All-America Cities by the National Civic League at its meeting Sunday in Denver, Colo.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — An average 5 percent system-wide Metrolink fare increase will go effect July 1 to help close a $10.2 million funding gap for the 2013-14 fiscal year caused by an increase in operating expenses, a system official said.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A man shot to death in an unincorporated area near South Los Angeles was identified today.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Long Beach woman who falsely accused football player Brian Banks of rape has been ordered to pay $1.6 million in expenses incurred by the school district where the crime supposedly had occurred, plus $1 million in damages, it was reported today.

COMPTON, Calif. — A jury today awarded $8 million to the parents of a man killed in a deputy-involved shooting in  Willowbrook in 2010.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Michael Jackson’s health deteriorated so badly in the last weeks of his life that he couldn’t perform some of his trademark dance moves, according to evidence presented in his family’s lawsuit against a concert promoter.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Slain Santa Monica gunman John Zawahri left behind a note on his body apologizing for killing his father and his brother and hoping his father’s estate would support his mother, police said Friday.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Los Angeles City Council today voted unanimously to certify last month’s general and special elections results.

LANCASTER, Calif. — A judge today postponed the arraignment of a Littlerock man charged with murder in the mauling death of a female jogger by a pack of pit bulls allegedly owned by the defendant.