All Aboard! Metro Offers Free Rides Christmas Eve, New Years Eve

LA Metro will provide free rides on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve as part of its annual effort to help passengers travel safely during the holidays, officials announced Monday Starting Tuesday, the transit agency will offer free rides from 4 a.m. to 3 a.m. Dec. 25. Additionally, on Dec. 31 to Jan. 1 from […]

South LA Churches, Nonprofits Receive $10K to Support Homelessness

Nonprofits and religious institutions in South Los Angeles focused on homelessness will receive $10,000 to enhance their ability to compete for government funding, officials announced Monday. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority awarded 50 organizations as part of its Small Agency and Faith-Based Organization Capacity Building Fund Pilot. Awardees such as A Meaningful Goal Housing […]

Man and Woman Released After Serving 17 Years for Wrongful Conviction

A man and woman who spent more than 17 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a 2007 East Hollywood murder rejoiced Monday after their convictions were vacated and they were set free. “It’s some kind of Christmas miracle,” an emotional Charlotte Pleytez said during a Monday news conference at the Hall of Justice, […]

Kaiser Permanente Mental Health Workers to Resume Negotiations

After two months since going on a labor strike, the union representing mental health workers and Kaiser Permanente will return to the bargaining table on Jan. 9, officials announced Monday. Nearly 2,400 Kaiser mental health therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and psychologists — represented by National Union of Healthcare Workers — began their strike on […]

LA Sues Zoo Affiliated Non-Profit for

The city of Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against a Los Angeles Zoo nonprofit established more than 60 years ago to help the city operate and develop the attraction, alleging that it has recently prioritized its own interests over those of the zoo and canceled a key fundraising event it was obligated to oversee. […]

LAFD Contains Hazmat Situation from Dislodged Drum off Train

Fire crews were called to investigate a possible hazardous materials situation Monday in Wilmington after a drum of unknown substance fell from a train, authorities said. Crews responded around 11:30 a.m. Monday to the 900 block of West Harry Bridges Boulevard, near South Figueroa Street, where the drum became dislodged from a shipping container, according […]

Man Pleads Not Guilty to Stabbing Grandmother to Death in South Pasadena

A man pleaded not guilty Monday to murder and burglary charges stemming from the stabbing death of his 75-year-old grandmother at her South Pasadena home. Bikramjot Singh Padda, 28, is charged along with Josh Edward Atkins, 44, in the killing of Susan Miller inside her home at about 3:30 a.m. June 4 in the 800 […]

Senior Man Pleads Not Guilty in Deaths of Three Found in Burning Temple City Home

A 64-year-old man pleaded not guilty Monday to murder charges stemming from the deaths of three people whose bodies were found after a fire at a Temple City home in October. Xuanhan Zhang is charged with murder for the Oct. 27 killings of Xiao Zeng, 53, Chaojin Liang, 70, and Wenxin Huang, 57, who were […]

Monterey Park Police on High DUI Alert

The Monterey Park Police Department Monday announced that they will be conducting increased DUI patrols at the start of the new year. Officers will be out from 4 p.m. Friday Jan. 3 to 2 a.m. Saturday looking for people driving under the influence, according to the department. “Impaired driving is preventable,” Chief of Police Scott […]

Sherman Oaks Construction Company Sued for Gender Based Discrimination

A woman is suing a Sherman Oaks construction business for gender discrimination, alleging the company owner told her she was “stepping into a man’s world” by wanting to apply for a drafting position and also told the plaintiff that her seriously ill mother should be able to take care of her own toiletries without her […]

AG Calls For Dissolution of Nonprofit Housing Agency

A lawsuit calling for dissolving the Chinese Community on Aging Housing Corp., a nonprofit public benefit corporation that operated a Chinatown senior citizen residential complex allegedly beset with health and safety issues, was filed Monday, according to Attorney General Rob Bonta. CCOA incorporated in 1979 to provide affordable housing for elderly persons and handicapped persons […]