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A homeless man takes food from a trash can in Los Angeles' Skid Row area, home to the nation's largest concentration of homeless people, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017, in Los Angeles. At least 10 cities have declared official states of emergency, and California declared a statewide emergency due to a hepatitis A outbreak linked to homeless encampments.
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors members, from left, Sheila Kuehl, Kathryn Barger, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Janice Hahn and Hilda L. Solis represent parts of the sprawling county. As Senate leaders move closer to taking a floor vote next week on their version of the Republican tax reform measure, Los Angeles County leaders have directed their lobbyists in Washington, D.C. to oppose provisions of their proposal.
Shirley Casas Choate, chief deputy district director of Caltrans, left, Rep. Grace Napolitano, middle and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger complete helicopter tour of Highway 39 north of Azusa. They flew out of San Gabriel Valley Airport on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017.
Rep. Steve Knight, R-Santa Clarita, speaks Jan. 21, 2016, during a state legislative hearing in Granada Hills about the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak. Democrats hoping to knock off Republican Congressman Steve Knight in north Los Angeles County got a new shot of optimism from the latest round of campaign fundraising reports.
"It is essentially what we've been doing in Los Angeles County for some time and it strikes that balance between public safety and public trust." But, Ira Mehlman with the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says ICE should have the right to enforce federal laws in the state, just like other federal agencies.
A Los Angeles County Urban Search and Rescue team based in Pacoima was told to deploy to Mexico on Wednesday, Sept. 20, after the government there requested US help to aid local authorities in the aftermath of a second devastating earthquake in the country.
California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the Los Angeles County Area on Sunday after the largest fire in the city's history began to rage out of control. The fire started Friday and has since consumed 5,895 acres , pushing hundreds of residents out of their homes near the Burbank area in Southern California, CNN reports.
The California Democratic Party on Sunday rejected a last-ditch appeal contesting the election of the party's new leader, setting up a strong possibility of a court challenge. Bay Area Democratic activist Kimberly Ellis, who narrowly lost the race for new party chair to Eric Bauman in May, appealed a party committee's affirmation of the election results in July.
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center staff take part in onsite training atop the new helipad at the hospital Friday August 11, 2017. The new helipad, which is atop a new parking structure at the hospital, is expected to be fully functional in approximately one month and is located next to the emergency and trauma center.
A study to examine a wide-ranging ban on the use of take-out containers, plastic cups and single-use straws was approved unanimously by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, but not before several people spoke out in opposition to the idea.
ASSOCIATION FOR LOS ANGELES DEPUTY SHERIFFS, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Respondent; LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT et al., Real Parties in Interest.
Los Angeles County coroner's report released on Monday revealed a mixture of drugs that were in actress Carrie Fisher's system when she went into cardiac arrest on an L.A.-bound flight and later died. Fisher's toxicology review found evidence of cocaine, methadone, MDMA , alcohol and opiates when she was rushed to Ronald Reagan UCLA Hospital on Dec. 23, a toxicology report showed.
Latino voters appear poised to power one of their own, California Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, to victory Tuesday in a special congressional election that has turned into a test of the power of two ascendant minority communities. Both finalists for the seat are Democrats who emerged from the April primary as the top two vote-getters in this decidedly blue district in Los Angeles County.
A surveillance video corroborates an off-duty police officer's account that he was being robbed when he killed a 15-year-old boy and wounded another teen Friday night. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt.
Republicans have a lock on power in Congress and the White House. But far across the country in California, the party of Reagan is seeing yet another threat to its fraying relevance.
In the Santa Clarita Valley, where hospitals and specialists were once few and far between, Teresa Savaikie said the Affordable Care Act helped keep her and her family from losing their home as she fought two, stage 3 colon cancer tumors. In the San Gabriel Valley, where there are more hospitals and specialists, Mike Merkel said the Affordable Care Act pushed his wife, Nina, who was diagnosed with breast cancer, out of the City of Hope, where she had been a patient and into a maze of providers and specialists all across the region.
A trio of motions aimed at protecting undocumented immigrants and others threatened with deportation, including putting $1 million into a legal defense fund, are scheduled to be voted on Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. City and county officials first proposed the ideas late last year in response to President Donald Trump's pre-election remarks about deporting people who live in the country illegally.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's SWAT team was dispatched to a residential neighborhood near Covina on Sunday morning after a gunman fired on deputies, authorities said. The deputies were responding to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon in the 16700 block of East Cypress Street about 9:50 a.m. when the gunman opened fire on them, said Sgt.
She's 78 years old, but Rep. Maxine Waters is more popular with millennials than their parents ever dreamed of. The blunt-talking Democratic congresswoman who represents a densely populated corridor of Los Angeles County stretching from Inglewood to Torrance and east to South Los Angeles has been in public office longer than the 20- and 30-somethings have been on the planet.
Syrian media say... Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan is embracing the town halls that many of his Republican counterparts in Congress have avoided as people lash out at President Donald Trump's early actions. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan is embracing the town halls that many of his Republican counterparts in Congress have avoided as people lash out at President Donald Trump's early actions.