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California city no longer eligible to receive state housing and homelessness funds
The city of Norwalk is no longer eligible to receive state housing and homelessness funds after the state Department of Housing and Community Development revoked its compliance with the housing element law. Additionally, the city can no longer deny certain affordable housing projects, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The announcement comes weeks after the […]
Southern California hospital seeks help identifying injured patients
A local hospital needs help identifying two patients who were found injured in Los Angeles County. The patients are described as a woman around 60 years old and a man between 30 to 40 years old, according to the St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood. Hospital staff are hoping to locate their family members. The […]
Massive bear in Southern California claws, wiggles out from under home
Yet another bear has taken up temporary residence under a home in the San Gabriel Mountain community of Monrovia. The homeowners, Mark Chou and Mark Lanza, were watching a horror movie when all of a sudden, a real 250-pound creature started making a commotion under their home. “We were like, ‘Okay, something is […]
RV Camps Fill Neighborhoods With Homeless - City Looks To Tow Them Off - Where Will These People Go?
Although California announced previously in the year that they were going to clear out homeless encampments, there proposed an obvious question. “Where are these people going to go?”
As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses
For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles’ Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter who has autism.But that grace had an expiration date. For Maalouf and her family it arrived in 2020.The landlord, no longer legally obligated to keep the building affordable, hiked rent from $1,100 to $2,660 in 2021 — out of reach for Maalouf and her family. Maalouf's nights are haunted by fears her yearslong eviction battle will end in sleeping bags on a friend's floor or worse.While...
The Los Angeles County D.A.'s Office Says a Retrial for the Menendez Brothers Is Possible
Ryan Murphy's polarizing series about the Menendez brothers has pushed their case into the public eye in a way that it hasn't been since Erik and Lyle Menendez were arrested in March 1990. The brothers murdered their parents in August 1989 and were eventually convicted of first-degree murder in 1996. Since then their story has been told in all manner of mediums, with one man leading the charge.Journalist Robert Rand covered the trial for the Miami Herald and subsequently wrote the definitive book about their crimes. Titled The Menendez Murders, it was originally released in September 2018. Since then, Rand...
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