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'Taxpayers deserve answers': Trump's new US attorney for Los Angeles says billions meant for the homeless has gone 'missing' — is it fraud or just bad bookkeeping?
While homelessness in Los Angeles County declined 5% last year, it remains a huge problem affecting roughly 73,500 people.
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‘Psychological first aid’: How volunteers helped students recover after LA fires
More than 100 volunteers helped provide “psychological first aid” to students in the Pasadena Unified School District ...
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Judge to consider yanking control of homelessness spending from LA's elected leaders in new court hearing
The hearing comes after an independent audit found significant failures by the city in tracking billions of homelessness ...
AI is coming soon to speed up sluggish permitting for fire rebuilds, officials say
With a boost from nonprofits, the city and county of Los Angeles are getting free AI permitting software. Will it speed up ...
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California Reconsiders Strict Housing-First Approach to Homelessness
A bill would allow local governments to devote up to a quarter of their homeless funds to residential programs that practice ...
California faces an additional $12-billion budget deficit, Newsom says
Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget plan walks back his promise to provide free healthcare to undocumented immigrants, caps overtime ...
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Los Angeles Lakers
It's graduation time at Kentucky and while several basketball stars are expected to walk across the stage, one among them is former NBA All-Star Rajon Rondo.