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In a Watts housing project, 'a death angel' kept knocking this summer
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA resident makes her way home this month at the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. (Genaro...
Watts leaders, shaken by shootings, tell residents to avoid large gatherings for rest of 2023
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCynthia Mendenhall, a former gang member who has lost loved ones to violence, waits for a friend in...
Amid 'concrete and trash,' a healing garden for violent crime survivors stands out
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoIn a densely populated Watts neighborhood desperately lacking green space, a Los Angeles garden is...
Opinion: Let us now praise Ronald 'Kartoon' Antwine, who transformed himself and his corner of Watts
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRonald "Kartoon" Antwine visits Watts Serenity Park, which his lobbying made possible. (Logan...
A young Black man, a big dream and the Watts rec center that helped him out of the projects
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMarveon Mabon, a fourth-generation resident of the Imperial Courts public housing development in...
Leader of L.A. gang’s crack trafficking ring sentenced to 14 years in prison
KTLA articles via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOne of the leaders of a notorious gang in South Los Angeles has been sentenced to prison for leading...
Op-Ed: The biggest bang for L.A.'s crime-and-safety buck
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLAPD Deputy Chief Emada Tingirides, center right, chats with Augie Lopez with the Housing Authority...
Suspect arrested on suspicion of robbing man of $60,000 Rolex at 99 Ranch
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEmployee Mario Hernandez scrubbs bloodstains after a July robbery and pistol-whipping in the parking...
Los Angeles' mass uprisings in search of Black justice have punctuated my life, and my library
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 months agoI've lived in L.A. during the Watts riots, the beating of Rodney King and the death of George Floyd....
How Nipsey Hussle Transcended Music to Earn a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the aftermath of Nipsey Hussle’s murder in early 2019, something occurred within Los Angeles gang...