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The growing homeless population in LA County accounts for 54 percent of fires responded to in the first quarter of 2021.

The Los Angeles City Council’s Homeless and Poverty Committee voted 4-1 Thursday to authorize a study for a controversial proposal by Councilmember Mike Bonin to build temporary shelters for the homeless at local beaches, among other sites.

President Joe Biden’s progressive deputies are spending $3 billion to help many poor migrants get into U.S. cities, even as other pro-migration groups complain that current illegal migrants are going homeless in those high-rent cities.

Eddie Johns, 70, who has struggled with homelessness for a decade, was a 1970s disco star who recorded the horn section that is sampled on Daft Punk’s classic dance hit “One More Time” — but he reportedly has never been paid his royalties.

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has dropped a request for the death penalty for a woman and her boyfriend who are accused of murdering and torturing her 10-year-old son — and the prosecutor in charge of the case is furious.

President Joe Biden is considering appointing Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to a diplomatic post — likely U.S. Ambassador to India, according to a report Tuesday evening by Axios.

A suspect who allegedly burglarized an LAPD officer’s private vehicle Wednesday afternoon found a firearm and used it to shoot the officer multiple times as the officer tried to interrupt the burglary. 

Homeless encampments lined the sidewalks and parks near Union Station, the venue for Sunday evening’s Oscars, on Tuesday — 48 hours after the red carpet had been rolled up and the stars and media had gone home.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said Friday that it is time for the U.S. to “make amends” with black families in America by returning land their ancestors owned which was taken from them.

Women’s groups are expressing alarm as San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has decreased the rate at which domestic violence charges are filed, allowing many suspects to go free and potentially putting women and children in danger.

The Oscars are a day away and are already coming under fire. The city of Los Angeles is being accused of hiding the homeless as Hollywood prepares to toast itself ahead of Sunday’s 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. One man told local news he was told to either move or have his things demolished.  

Los Angeles is set to limit the usage of disposable napkins and utensils in restaurants as part of an effort to decrease plastic waste and keep a few extra dollars in the pockets of businesses which have been hurting due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday ordering the city and county of Los Angeles to ensure that every homeless person living in the notorious Skid Row district has housing by October 18 this year.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed a new program Monday to use therapy rather than policing to respond to some nonviolent emergencies, outlining the idea in his “State of the City” speech.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told the city Monday evening in his annual “State of the City” address that L.A. was more “just” and “forward-looking” after a year of pandemic, riots, and economic shock.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is set to propose a “universal basic income” pilot program for some residents of his city when he unveils his new budget on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times. A year ago, the cash-strapped city was sending workers on furloughs due to anticipated budget shortfalls.

Dr. Drew Pinsky has been nominated to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, thanks to his vocal warnings that the crisis is primarily a problem of mental illness and drug addiction, not housing. But his nomination is proving controversial.

More than twice as many Americans in San Francisco, California, died from drug overdoses in 2020 as they did from the Chinese coronavirus, data reveals. 

A murderer who was paroled following decades behind bars has reportedly been accused of killing another individual in Los Angeles after his release.

CNN admits a crime wave which was evident in 2020 is continuing in 2021 in Democrat-run cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and others. 

Los Angeles City Council member Mike Bonin has proposed sheltering the city’s growing homeless populations in facilities at local beaches on the Pacific Ocean, provoking the ire of local residents who rely on the beaches for recreation.

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón is reportedly cutting the county’s “hardcore gang” unit and narcotics units by half, according to several reports by local journalists.

A Los Angeles-area woman and her dog were fatally stabbed in broad daylight Thursday by a suspect who was then hit with a rock by a bystander, authorities said.

A deceased World War II veteran will make his journey to his final resting place in Southern California on Tuesday after archaeologists recently discovered his remains.

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is forming a special “Resentencing Unit” that will reconsider the sentences of up to 30,000 convicted criminals as part of his sweeping reform of the criminal justice system in the region.

Melvin, a pit bull who spent 667 days in a Los Angeles, California shelter, got the perfect birthday present this year — a forever family.

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, who was elected with millions of dollars from billionaire left-wing donor George Soros, marked his first 100 days in office Wednesday by claiming he had reduced prison sentences by over 8,000 years.

Controversial left-wing Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is reportedly “planning to severely downsize or outright dissolve the office’s Hardcore Gang unit,” according to a report Tuesday night by local Fox affiliate KTTV-11.

Tania Owen, widow of murdered Los Angeles Sheriff’s Sergeant Steve Owen, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak to discuss a recall effort against Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón.

The Grammys on Sunday featured a speech by Tamika Mallory, the left-wing activist who left the Women’s March in 2019 after being accused of antisemitism, including her support of racist and and antisemite Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Protests marking the one-year anniversary of the officer-involved shooting death of Breonna Taylor turned violent in three West Coast cities Saturday night. The incidents evolved into riots in Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle.

Parents of children in the San Francisco Unified School District held a rally Saturday to demand five full days of in-person school instruction, rather than the hybrid model that the teachers’ union and the district have accepted for school reopening.

Los Angeles has opened its first tiny homes village in an effort to tackle homelessness, the Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday.

Fieldston School, an elite prep school in New York City, has renamed “Newton’s laws” to “the three fundamental laws of physics” in order to “decenter whiteness” from physics. At elite high schools around the country, including Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles, efforts to build Critical Race Theory are well underway. One Harvard-Westlake parent reported that her mixed-race child came home from school and told her: “”Mom, I just found out I’m a racist and I prefer white Europeans.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti described himself as “ecstatic” over the $1.35 billion that the city will receive from the $1.9 trillion “COVID relief” bill passed by Congress on Wednesday and set to be signed into law by President Joe Biden.

A convicted murderer toasted George Soros-backed District Attorney George Gascón from prison in expectation of an early release.