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Anti-gang Founder Marroquin Gets Prison

“No Guns” leader peddled guns while City Hall paid him to fight gangs Hector Marroquin founder of the gang intervention group No Guns, was sentenced today to eight years in prison after pleading no contest to weapon charges. Charged alongside 51-year-old Marroquin was his 25-year-old girlfriend Sylvia Arellano, who is......

California Fire Whisperers

LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT firefighters and helicopter pilots were on “high-hazard fire staffing” in the early hours of November 24 as the Santa Ana win...

Best Yogurt for Your Health

What really separates one yogurt shop from the next? We think it’s the irritation factor. Pinkberry is delish but filled with annoying, trendy people soon to be appearing at the next hot spot near you. Yogotango is yummy too, but who knows whose sticky fingers have poked at the copious......
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Payout for Dog Food Prank?

Amid swirling rumors that City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is hoping to settle the lawsuit filed by black firefighter Tennie Pierce, new court filings have emerge...

Justice for the Snow-Cone Man

NORBERTO CASTRO NEVER SAW his untimely and violent death coming. The 43-year-old Mexican immigrant’s life had taken a positive turn, and by March 2005 he had saved up enough money as a Los Angeles busboy to buy a snow-cone cart, which he pushed the six blocks from Melrose Avenue to......

Worse and Worser

AN ETHNICALLY MIXED bag of downtown jurors on Tuesday awarded a record — and huge — $6.2 million in economic damages alone to 39-year-old firefighter Brenda Lee, agreeing that she was harassed and tormented by her supervisors because she is black and a lesbian. The jury has yet to award......