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Operation Midway Blitz was in high gear in early October when authorities made a sensational announcement: An alleged ranking member of Chicago’s Latin Kings street gang had been arrested in a ...

California's model criminal justice system for the nation is one that bends over backwards to let criminals out of jail early.

A government that cannot provide safe places for kids to play in has failed to fulfill its easiest promise within our social contract.

A little-known and rarely enforced law prohibits ball games on some Los Angeles streets and sidewalks. The local council has begun the process of repealing it. By Yan Zhuang Planning on playing a ...

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Los Angeles is about to make it tougher to hike rents. Starting in early February, landlords on most multifamily apartments there can only raise rents 1% to 4% a year, depending on the local inflation ...

Starbucks spent years trying to become an inescapable storefront on the streets of New York, Los Angeles and other big cities in America. Now that’s coming to an end. Its expansion once seemed ...

The simple act of crossing the road landed gang member Calen Morris in more trouble with the police. He had been wearing his leather patch – depicting a horned skull engulfed in red flames, and the ...

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