Yesterday, September 20th, was the day that Mychal Bell was to be sentenced after being found guilty as an adult on the charge of aggravated battery. Prosecutors were asking for a sentence of 22 years at one point, then reduced it to 15 years. Last Friday the appeals court overturned his conviction. The court determined that Bell, who was 16 at the time, should not have have been tried as an adult. In spite......

The founder of Homeboy Industries tells a Trenton-New Jersey paper that LA's war on gangs has been exactly the wrong way to deal with the problem. The Trenton Times writes about how their mayor is approaching their local gang situation (which features less than a thousand active gang members) in comparison to other cities across the nation. While, according to Father Boyle, LA continues to throw police and muscle at our thousands and thousands......

LAist caught a brief snippet of last night's packed Crenshaw High meeting on Good Day LA this morning -- they featured a soundbite of a father requesting Superintendent Roy Romer's resignation -- but had no idea how this all came about. As a parent of a Crenshaw High student explains in the comments of our earlier post, it wasn't the LAUSD who called the meeting but the Crenshaw Cougars Coalition The reason that Crenshaw......

That seems to be the question of the day with an area high school losing its accreditation for the first time in 30 years. Martini Republic's LA blog and Mayor Sam's Sister City both want to know how Crenshaw High School has been allowed to get so bad. Crenshaw High's website doesn't have any information about what the school is doing to regain accreditation and LAUSD's Budget Board Meeting tomorrow doesn't appear to have......