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Massive police presence at UCLA following overnight melee on campus
Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the campus of UCLA Wednesday morning, hours after violence fights broke out between pro-Palestinian protesters and counter demonstrators. Officials in the uniforms of the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Santa Monica Police Department and the California Highway Patrol were seen...
Scuffles break out overnight at UCLA between pro-Palestinian, Pro-Israeli protesters. Graffiti found on Royce Hall
Security remains tight at UCLA after an overnight confrontation between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters broke out just before midnight Tuesday. NBC4 video shows images of the confrontation that took place around 11:40 p.m. in front of the encampment barricade on Dickson Plaza near Powell Library and Kaplan Hall. The fight...
Metro train collides with bus in downtown Los Angeles, injuring more than 50, 2 seriously
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least 55 people were hurt, two seriously, when a Metro light rail train and a University of Southern California shuttle bus collided Tuesday along a busy thoroughfare in downtown Los Angeles, officials said. The crash happened shortly before noon along Exposition Boulevard, near the USC campus and Natural History Museum, according to the LA Fire Department. Two victims were hospitalized with serious injuries and 16 others were transported in fair condition, the department said. Another 37 people were treated at the scene. Dave Sotero, a spokesperson for LA Metro, said the bus crossed into the path of an E Line train. The light rail line runs from East Los Angeles to downtown Santa Monica mostly along streets, and not all of the crossings have gates.
This Venice Soup Kitchen Doubles as a Culinary Training Program for LA’s Underserved Populations
A steaming plate of Ethiopian collard greens and spiced red lentils greeted Sarah Irene Harvey, a formerly unhoused 47-year-old living in Crenshaw, as she settled in for a meal at Bread and Roses Cafe in March 2023. Colors burst from the plate, as bright as the rose mural painted on the dining room’s back wall; the rush of spices jolted her senses. Harvey had eaten at the Venice soup kitchen dedicated to feeding Los Angeles’s unhoused and food-insecure community on several occasions since arriving in the city in 2018, but this morning’s meal was a departure from what she was used to.
Multiple Victims Injured in Gardena Shooting
GARDENA, Calif., Apr. 30 (KNN) — Gunshots rang out Monday night on a street in the city of Gardena leaving multiple people injured. Gardena police officers and Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel responded to reports of shots fired around 9:12 p.m. on 149th Street, just west of Vermont Avenue.
How a survivor of a notorious crime is working to save one of LA's most storied cemeteries
Broken gates, shattered headstones and desecrated grave sites are just the most recent troubles at Compton's storied cemetery, Woodlawn Celestial Gardens."It's a huge historical landmark," Compton City Councilman Jonathan Bowers said. "A lot of American history laid to rest here, dating back to the 1800s."Among the 26,000 buried here is a baby named Jennie, who died in 1871. Another is Antonia Ruiz, who was born in 1797 and lived through three centuries before dying in 1903 at 112 years old. The historic cemetery also has 17 soldiers who served in the Civil War buried on the hallowed grounds. "This is an...
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