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From sleeping in a car to Ivy League: California teen earns admission to 65 elite colleges with 4.4 GPA

Lamont Newell, a 17-year-old student from South Los Angeles, has drawn national attention after earning admission to 65 colleges while overcoming homelessness and family hardship. The valedictorian of Verbum Dei Jesuit High School graduated with a 4.4 GPA and has chosen to attend Columbia University on a reported full-ride scholarship…

The Times of India

Was concerned about their safety: LA teacher fired after opening school gate during anti-ICE student walkout

A history teacher at a South Los Angeles charter high school has been terminated after opening a campus gate to allow students to exit during a student-led anti-ICE protest, a move he says was intended to prevent injuries.

The Times of India

ICE Agent Shoots Deputy Marshal and TikTok Streamer During South L.A. Raid Gone Wrong

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in South Los Angeles devolved into a shooting when an agent shot and wounded a deputy U.S. marshal and a TikTok streamer during an attempted arrest

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Finding Alzheimer’s Support in the Black Church

South Los Angeles churches invite doctors, researchers and government representatives to bring help to those who need it.

Capital & Main

They feed children who can’t hold a fork. But these LAUSD workers will strike

LOS ANGELES — For 24 years, Peniana Arguelles has worked as a special education assistant in Los Angeles public schools. At Menlo Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles she feeds children who can’t hold a fork, changes diapers, helps students choose colors for their paintings, doles out hugs when…

Los Angeles Times

Video adds to questions about police shooting of a double amputee holding a knife

LOS ANGELES — As they do every week during football season, the Lowe family gathered Sunday morning to watch the NFL games on two big flat screens in the South Los Angeles home of the family matriarch.

Los Angeles Times

Parents want more security in LA schools, but student activists push back. Inside the debate

LOS ANGELES — As a parent in South Los Angeles, Prentis Hill has no doubt where he stands in the debate over school police and whether to eliminate them. He wants more security in schools — citing an incident of a student allegedly bringing a gun onto his son's middle…

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Suspect in killing of rapper PnB Rock is extradited to LA to face murder charge

LOS ANGELES — A man wanted in connection with the slaying of rapper PnB Rock, who was gunned down last month at Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles, has been extradited to Los Angeles after his initial arrest in Las Vegas.

Los Angeles Times

3 charged with murder in slaying of PnB Rock at Roscoe’s restaurant

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors have filed murder charges against three people — including a 17-year-old — in the brazen daytime robbery and killing of Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock at a South Los Angeles restaurant earlier this month, authorities said.

Los Angeles Times

Father, teenage son charged in killing of rapper PnB Rock

A man and his 17-year-old son have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of rapper PnB Rock at a South Los Angeles restaurant

The Independent UK

Rapper PnB Rock fatally shot in Los Angeles restaurant

Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock was fatally shot during a robbery in South Los Angeles

The Independent UK

Rapper PnB Rock fatally shot during robbery at LA restaurant

LOS ANGELES — PnB Rock, the Philadelphia rapper best known for his 2016 hit “Selfish,” was fatally shot during a robbery at the Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles restaurant in South Los Angeles on Monday afternoon, law enforcement sources told The Times.

Los Angeles Times

LeBron James creates quite the spectacle in his Drew League return

LOS ANGELES — The lines began to form around 7 a.m. Saturday outside King/Drew Magnet High, the anticipation building for the arrival of Lakers superstar LeBron James to display his talents in the famed Drew League in South Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times

His crusade to house LA’s poor wins praise from Oprah, Garcetti. But others have doubts

LOS ANGELES — The day that Star Owens welcomed a swarm of dignitaries and TV cameras into her new home in South Los Angeles last fall marked the debut of a bold challenge to the city’s way of building homeless housing.

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California serves warrant on South LA oil drilling facility for overdue site inspection

LOS ANGELES — California regulators said they had been trying to arrange a site inspection of a problem-plagued oil drilling site in South Los Angeles for months, to no avail.

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