Joseph Treviño

To his neighbors and friends -- and there were many -- Anthony Salvador Barrera was a kind and funny man. His buddies called the scruffy biker with a thick Fu Manchu mustache “the mayor of East Los Angeles.” Last Saturday, Barrera and two others died during a brawl between his......

HE BROUGHT SOLACE TO TROUBLED MINORS AS A JUVENILE-HALL chaplain. On the streets of Lincoln Heights, he befriended youths. Stories abound about Father Stephen Hernandez's mercy in helping save young lives caught up in gangs. But last week, the mostly Latino parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church learned that......

DISCLOSURES ABOUT PEDOPHILIA among Catholic priests have, for the first time, become front-page fodder in newspapers around the country. And locally, readers are now learning about allegations that Cardinal Roger Mahony, one of the city's most powerful and revered figures, covered up the case of a pedophilic pastor while serving......

Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter LIKE MANY RESIDENTS OF PUBlIC-HOUSING PROJECTS, people who live at San Fernando Gardens have had their share of setbacks and work a little harder for things others take for granted. But the arrest last week of one of their security guards in connection with a......

A suspect in a Pacoima drive-by shooting, in which a 2-year-old girl and two women were hurt, worked as a security guard at a nearby public housing project. Juan Lara, 20, a resident of the San Fernando Gardens, had been a guard there since last April, according to the Housing......

Next Tuesday, some 1.5 million ballots will be cast in L.A. County. Some 20,000 workers will oversee 5,000 polling places. But about 80,000 people will be forced to mail their ballots or stop by a polling place outside their area if they wish to vote. The L.A. County RegistrarRecorder‘s Office......

Mexico President Vicente Fox has been under pressure from human-rights organizations to come through on his vow to bring to justice those who have been responsible for mass killings and unsolved murders over the past 30 years. Fox’s latest test is the case of General Jose Francisco Gallardo, a man......

Federal auditors are examining the Los Angeles Housing Authority’s books because residents allege job-training programs are rife with fraud and mismanagement of funds. Six leaders of Resident Advisory Councils at three different housing projects accuse the Authority of misusing thousands of dollars over a six-year period. The Authority’s lawyer, Martha......

She had survived years of threats, kidnappings and electric-shock torture. Despite the pressure, Digna Ochoa, one of Mexico’s best-known human-rights activists, would not give up her cause. In October, the lawyer and former nun was finally silenced. She was found shot to death execution style in her Mexico City office......

Daniel went down to the Army recruitment office, inspired to serve his country by the war in Afghanistan. Recruiters rejected Daniel, a citizen of Mexico, just as they have dozens of other undocumented young men and women who have tried to join the U.S. armed forces since September 11, hoping......