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By Daniel HeimpelIt's harder to get a job these days, but with a degree in Los Angeles gang-banging, you can apply to the city for a "living wage" of up to $30,000--with health insurance. Thugs who claim to have reformed, like Marlo "Bow Wow" Jones, who was recently arrested  for......

You've got to hand it to our city's social guardians, they can see a gold lining in every tragedy. In the soul-searching that has followed last week's arrest of gang-interventionist Marlo Jones, several people gave the L.A. Times explanations for his alleged role in robbing a member of the hip......

You have to wonder if Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council will come up with another "anti-gang program" that fails to woo a single kid away from gangs, now that Antonio Villaraigosa and Rocky Delgadillo are openly showing how much they loathe one another. If you didn't catch......

At the trial’s start, Hector Marroquin Jr.’s lawyer argued that his client was just doing a good deed when he went with a friend to the home of a former colleague just after Christmas 2005. But in the end, Marroquin Jr., a purported anti-gang activist and son of Hector Marroquin......

{mosimage}Connie Rice knew it all along. She knew that Hector Marroquin, veteran of the 18th Street Gang and a self-proclaimed anti-gang activist, was still in the life.That’s what Rice stated last week, as news broke that Marroquin allegedly sold automatic rifles and silencers to undercover ATF agents on three separate......

See related slideshow here.FEDERAL ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS AGENTS knocked first, then entered the Downey home of purported anti-gang activist Hector Marroquin on Wednesday, arresting him for selling silencers and weapons — including three assault rifles and a machine gun — to an undercover ATF agent. The gun sales, some......

The 2007 AltWeekly Awards finalists were announced this month by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, bringing news that the L.A. Weekly has garnered the most nominations in the contest’s history: a total of 13 finalists. These writers, artists, photographers and designers are up for honors in the following categories, competing......