Alexandra Zavis (Los Angeles Times) | June 20, 2012 L.A. began a major cleanup of skid row Tuesday, storing some belongings of homeless people and removing large amounts of trash and dozens of needles. The operation, requested by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, is expected to last up to three weeks and is focused on the area [...]
by Andrew Blankstein (LA Times) December 24, 2009 In the season of giving, authorities have come up with a way to help the homeless through items they have confiscated: about 10,000 pairs of counterfeit athletic shoes. The shoes, which include knockoff Nike and Adidas sneakers minus the labels, were seized for trademark infringement by the [...]
By Christopher Goffard (LA Times) November 24, 2009 After the killings, the people on the river slept with their knives closer. They leashed guard dogs outside their tents and cardboard lean-tos. They listened for strangers’ footsteps above the thrum of traffic on the bridges overhead. They got used to the sight of police stepping carefully [...]
The 21-year-old had been ordered transferred to a state facility for the mentally ill, but had not yet been moved. The victim was a transient, 55, being held on suspicion of vandalism. By Richard Winton September 10, 2009 A Los Angeles County jail inmate was charged with murder Wednesday in the beating death of his [...]
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