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07
Apr 2010
Los Angeles is suddenly back in a deep and immediate financial crisis, and this time it's not a result of recession, the mortgage meltdown or a persistent structural deficit. All those things pushed the city to the brink, but officials had...
07
Apr 2010
Authorities unveiled a tough new legal tactic Wednesday aimed at keeping gang members - and the drugs they sell - off the streets of Skid Row.
Under a civil lawsuit proposed by the city attorney's office, 80 defendants, most of them gang...
07
Apr 2010
Flexing its muscles in an escalating City Hall budget battle, the City Council moved Wednesday to block Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's city shutdown plan and to seize control over the Department of Water and Power.
The aggressive posturing...
07
Apr 2010
The bullet still lodged in his leg, John Gibbs recounted Wednesday what happened when he tried to stop a man from driving off with an elderly couple's Pomeranian.
"The passenger leaned out. He said something like, 'Back off.' And then -...