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"Los Angeles is home to more Olympians than anywhere in the world, and has twice hosted the summer Olympic Games," said Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
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If more timber is harvested in Oregon, it puts a greater burden on California and other neighboring states to meet the federal conservation requirements to keep endangered species alive, says a group opposing the bill.
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L.A.'s Mayor announced the overhaul of the board last month amid heated talks over a labor contract covering 90 percent of employees at the city-owned utility.
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Photo: waltarrrrr/Flickr/Creative Commons License A Los Angeles City Council committee cleared four mayoral nominees on Monday to join the Board of Water and Power Commissioners. The Energy and Environment Committee signed off on Mayor Eric Garcetti's slate of appointees to...
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"It's hard for us to encourage people to bike and walk, when our streets are treated like the Wild West," said Eric Bruins, planning and policy director for the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.
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Photo: Duffernutter/Flickr/Creative Commons License Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion today calling for a citywide halt to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- a process that uses a pressurized water mixture to release oil or natural gas from...
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More than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex weddings to resume in California, the state's highest court today rejected the last remaining legal challenge to the unions.
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Daily mosquito monitoring by the Los Angeles County West Vector Control District suggested the need for closing the preserve.
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The company has only three products, all of them red, hot and inside bottles with the distinctive rooster trademark.
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After months of drought, Los Angeles is now experiencing what the National Weather Service calls the fourth-wettest July since records began being kept in 1877.
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Former Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education member Nury Martinez defeated former Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez in Tuesday's special election to fill L.A.'s Sixth District City Council seat.
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"I think it's an issue of letting people know that even though we are 3,000 miles away, this incident has affected the city of L.A.," said Bernard Parks.
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Residents who have gone without a voice on the L.A. City Council for six months will choose between a school board member and a former assemblywoman in a special runoff election today.
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The First Unitarian Church of L.A. was the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit filed today challenging the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' communication records.
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On Monday evening, a mob of around 150 split from a Leimert Park prayer vigil and rally and went on a rampage, damaging a few businesses, assaulting people, vandalizing cars, and blocking traffic, police said.
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Posted Trayvon Martin: Local Leaders Call for Peaceful Protests, U.S. Attorney Mulls Federal Charges
in News"Violence does nothing to help Trayvon and the Martin family get the justice they deserve and only distracts from the thousands of Americans who have signed petitions urging that the Justice Department pursue federal charges." -
Eric Garcetti decided Sunday, "out of an abundance of caution," to head back to Los Angeles.
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Community leaders plan to lead a "prayer rally" at Leimert Park tonight in the aftermath of George Zimmerman's acquittal at his murder trial for the slaying of Trayvon Martin.
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An estimated 300 to 400 demonstrators marched onto the 10 Freeway and stopped traffic for about an hour in protest of the George Zimmerman verdict.
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The restrictions require fire pits to be kept at least 700 feet away from the nearest residence.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced today it has settled a two-year fight over water rights with the Mammoth Community Water District of Mammoth Lakes.
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The $6 million suspension bridge would link equestrians and bicyclists in Atwater Village to 56 miles of horse trails in Griffith Park and the Los Angeles River Bikeway.
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A federal appeals court lifted a stay it had placed on the unions while the battle over Proposition 8 was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Justice Department today announced preliminary agreements with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department to make broad changes to policing in the Antelope Valley and enforcement of Section 8 housing.
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The death toll from Friday's shootings went up to five Sunday morning as a young woman who was shot with her father died at a Westwood hospital.
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They were killed in a rolling wave of violence that began late this morning in Santa Monica. Police shot and killed the suspect at Santa Monica College. Police originally said seven people died.
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They were killed in a rolling wave of violence that began late this morning in Santa Monica. Police shot and killed the suspect at Santa Monica College.
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Garcetti can solicit up to $250,000 in gifts, and each donor can give a maximum of $10,000.
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The declaration by county officials will waive regulations that might otherwise hinder recovery efforts.
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Galperin, 49, is an attorney who sits on two volunteer city commissions, one focused on revenue efficiency and the other on quality and productivity.
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"Los Angeles is home to more Olympians than anywhere in the world, and has twice hosted the summer Olympic Games," said Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
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If more timber is harvested in Oregon, it puts a greater burden on California and other neighboring states to meet the federal conservation requirements to keep endangered species alive, says a group opposing the bill.
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L.A.'s Mayor announced the overhaul of the board last month amid heated talks over a labor contract covering 90 percent of employees at the city-owned utility.
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Photo: waltarrrrr/Flickr/Creative Commons License A Los Angeles City Council committee cleared four mayoral nominees on Monday to join the Board of Water and Power Commissioners. The Energy and Environment Committee signed off on Mayor Eric Garcetti's slate of appointees to...
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"It's hard for us to encourage people to bike and walk, when our streets are treated like the Wild West," said Eric Bruins, planning and policy director for the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.
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Photo: Duffernutter/Flickr/Creative Commons License Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion today calling for a citywide halt to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- a process that uses a pressurized water mixture to release oil or natural gas from...
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More than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex weddings to resume in California, the state's highest court today rejected the last remaining legal challenge to the unions.
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Daily mosquito monitoring by the Los Angeles County West Vector Control District suggested the need for closing the preserve.
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The company has only three products, all of them red, hot and inside bottles with the distinctive rooster trademark.
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After months of drought, Los Angeles is now experiencing what the National Weather Service calls the fourth-wettest July since records began being kept in 1877.
