Category: Local Politics

Two gang members were convicted Wednesday of the January 2009 murder of a 19-year-old Carson man who was shot in the back as he was walking home from school.

According to unofficial results, incumbents in the Inglewood City Council elections have been swept out of office, including longtime representative Judy Dunlap in District 2.

Larenz Tate, whose acting credits include the television show “Rescue Me” and films such as “Ray,” “Love Jones,” “Crash,” and “Menace II Society,” will keynote the 6th Annual Fatherhood Solution Conference hosted by the Children’s Institute Inc.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — AEG Live’s CEO wrote two days before Michael Jackson died that a doctor Jackson was seeing “scares us to death because he is shooting him up with something,” court testimony shows.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Children’s Hospital Los Angeles was ranked fifth in a list of the nation’s best children’s hospitals released by U.S. News & World Report, the second consecutive year it was ranked fifth.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — “CelebrateLA,” a finale to a year of heritage month celebrations, will be held tonight and double as a farewell bash for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, with appearances by former President Bill Clinton and surprise guests.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Several people were shot when gunfire rang out on the campus of Santa Monica College today, and the suspect was apparently wounded.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The 43rd annual three-day Los Angeles LGBT Pride Celebration, Southern California’s largest LGBT community gathering, starts in West Hollywood today with events celebrating lesbian culture and the transgender community.

ROSEMEAD, Calif. — Southern California Edison’s parent company announced today it is shutting down the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern San Diego County near the Orange County line, the latest chapter of a saga that began with a small leak of radioactive steam.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez — who spent more than 23 years on death row for murdering 13 people during a 14-month crime spree that terrorized the Southland in the mid-1980s — died early today, state prison officials said.