Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority officials and volunteers will conduct the annual 2022 homeless count between Jan. 25- 27, the first since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic that canceled this year’s count.
An art exhibition titled “We Are … Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists” will debut in the Union Station Passageway Art Gallery today. The exhibition includes 35 portraits celebrating the diversity of Metro’s ridership, with transit riders of different ages, ethnicities and backgrounds included.
December 13: Baseball Hero Larry Doby was born,
December 12: Kenya claimed their independence, 1963
The Los Angeles Public Library has dedicated its Vermont Square branch to Rita Walters, the first Black woman elected to the City Council.
The five main candidates in next year’s Los Angeles mayoral election will appear in their first public forum together tomorrow.
December 11: Raven-Symoné is born
An airline passenger, arrested after his assaults on an air marshal and a flight attendant caused a Los Angeles-bound flight to be diverted to Oklahoma City, is facing possible federal charges.
Hundreds of sanitation workers went on strike today, threatening trash service in Huntington Beach and Anaheim.
Exactly two weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday and its associated gatherings of family and friends, Los Angeles County is seeing a resulting increase in COVID-19 cases, the public health director said recently, calling the trend a possible start of yet another winter surge of infections.
Six suspects have been arrested by Glendale police over the course of 2021 in connection with five separate follow-home robberies in the city, authorities said today.
A former top executive of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is expected to make his first court appearance today on charges of accepting bribes from a lawyer in exchange for supporting a $30-million, no-bid DWP contract.
Restrictions on access prompted by an outbreak of canine influenza at two Los Angeles city animal shelters have been lifted, meaning potential pet-adopters can again visit the animals at shelters in Chatsworth and West Los Angeles.
A boxer is suing Banner Promotions LLC, alleging its CEO and two other men lured him into signing a five-year deal with extensions while representing the agreement was for only one fight.
A Long Beach Police Department officer has been suspended for allegedly making “biased and prejudiced remarks in electronic communications,” and authorities are reviewing his past use of force incidents and arrest reports, police said today. Officer Maxwell Schroeder, a five-year veteran of the department, was suspended Thursday.