Parents of Miramonte Elementary School students reacted to the news of the staff reassignments by protesting this morning, along with their children. Dozens of parents and children braved the rain Tuesday morning, opposing LAUSD's decision to replace the entire staff following the arrests of two Miramonte Elementary teachers accused of sex crimes against students. more ›

Miramonte Elementary School will close its doors Tuesday and Wednesday to allow the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to replace the entire staff. The decision comes on the heels of two recent Miramonte Elementary teacher arrests for allegations of lewd acts against students. more ›

Outraged parents are refusing to send their children to Miramonte Elementary School today and are rallying outside the school this morning. The school is the former home of two teachers arrested last week on allegations of lewd acts and sexual crimes against students. more ›

The parents of one child at Miramonte Elementary School in South Los Angeles are alleging that their daughter was the victim of the two teachers arrested this week on suspicion of committing lewd acts against a child. more ›

This week at Miramonte Elementary kicked off with the arrest of Mark Berndt for allegedly feeding semen to his students, and it is ending with the arrest of another male teacher accused of lewd conduct on his students. more ›

Back when we were seventh graders, we battled our enemies with clever name-calling, by stomping our feet on the ground and in rare cases, maybe a little hair-pulling. Students at Samuel Gompers Middle School in South L.A. have lowered their brawls to a darker level, resorting to knives and guns as weapons. more ›

An elderly woman was stabbed to death in South L.A. today, and the suspect may be her grandson. Authorities were summoned to the 900 block of West 41st Street and transported the 89-year-old victim to a local hospital at 2:10pm. She died shortly after arriving at the hospital. more ›

If you Tweet about your work on your personal account, should you get in trouble with your boss? What if your workplace happens to be crime scenes? Twitter's @LAMurderCop is Sal LaBarbera ("Big City Homicide Boss" says his mini-bio on the social media site), and he is under fire for sending out a photo he took at one of the crime scenes he was called to. more ›

A cheerleader collapsed and later died while cheering against her school's rival at a Friday night football game. Angela Gettis, 16, a sophomore at Washington Prep High School, collapsed on the sidelines around 9 p.m. while her team played rivals Fremont High School. She was revived briefly on the sidelines, but she went into cardiac arrest at the hospital later on Saturday morning. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department will be conducting a Sobriety/Driver’s License checkpoint tonight as part of their ongoing campaign to remove dangerous drivers from the roads and educate the public on safety risks of driving under the influence. The checkpoint will be held from 6 p.m. tonight to 1 a.m. Sunday morning, westbound on Imperial Highway between Main Street and San Pedro Street in South Los Angeles. more ›

Community Coalition has a simple ask today: Give your vote on this Facebook page and Community Coalition could win a van to help transport after-school program participants to its center in South L.A. The contest runs until midnight and there are only a few other non-profits in the running (all ex-L.A.) so go on and give a click! more ›

A15-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital by Paramedics early Saturday morning after she reportedly broke free from a kidnapper's car and began screaming in a South Los Angeles neighborhood, says KTLA. According to police, the girl says she was kidnapped sometime after midnight on Saturday in Long Beach. more ›

A 6-year-old girl was killed in a hit and run Tuesday night in South Los Angeles, according to reports. Kemberly Arrue was playing with a ball near her home in the 600 block of West 49th Place (near Figueroa) and was chasing the ball into the street when she was struck around 9:30 p.m., said witnesses. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department have announced the locations of two sobriety and driver's license checkpoints scheduled for this weekend. Tonight, from 8 p.m. to Saturday at 2 a.m. the LAPD will be set up in Sherman Oaks on Ventura Boulevard at Columbus Avenue. On Saturday, a checkpoint will be operating from 8 p.m. to Sunday at 2 a.m. in South Los Angeles on Florence Avenue between Main Street and Broadway. more ›

An 18-year-old woman from Victorville was struck and killed Friday night in South Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Police Department are asking for the public's help in locating the driver who fled the scene. more ›

A home-invasion suspect was fatally shot by LAPD last night, a second suspect was arrested and five adults were found bound inside the "ransacked" home, according to LA Now. Police entered a residence in the 8700 block of McKinley Avenue in South LA and found a man armed with a Tec-9 pistol escaping out the back door. An officer shot the suspect, who died later at the hospital. Of the five residents that were bound, one was taken to the hospital for minor injuries and has been released. An investigation has been opened and it is unclear if the suspect pointed a gun at officers before he was shot and killed. more ›

A Los Angeles City Council committee voted to approve a new ban yesterday on "stand-alone" fast food restaurants in South Los Angeles, according to the Daily Breeze. Under this new ban, which can be viewed as an extension of the previously instituted moratorium on new fast food establishments, fast food restaurants cannot open "within a half-mile of existing establishments." more ›

In the wake of the Happy Meal Ban in San Francisco that requires McDonald's and other fast-food chains to reduce calorie counts and sodium levels in all meals that come with free toys and a statewide law that requires major chain restaurants to list calorie counts on menus starting in 2011, LA plans to revisit and enhance its own restrictions on fast-food chains in neighborhoods known for high rates of obesity, according to United Press International. more ›

The Alliance for Healthy and Responsible Grocery Stores, and none of them are on the honor roll, according to ABC7. more ›

The two suspects sought in a South L.A. shooting that left a toddler dead and two of his relatives injured have been arrested, police announced today, according to the LA Times. It was around 2 p.m. on Halloween when two young men walking down an alley opened fire into a backyard where 5-year-old Aaron Shannon Jr. was showing off his Spiderman costume to his grandfather and uncle. All three were hit, but it was Aaron who took a bullet to his head, leaving him in critical condition. He died the next day. more ›

Excited to show off his Spiderman costume to his grandpa and uncle, toddler Aaron Shannon Jr. ran into his backyard Sunday afternoon before heading out to trick-or-treat. At the same time, police said one of two young men in their 20s walking in the alley opened fire on the group, hitting Shannon in the head, his 56-year-old grandpa in wrist and his 27-year-old uncle in the leg. Shannon, 5, was left in critical condition and later died on Monday night, according to the LA Times. more ›

Motorists traveling on Florence Avenue between Main and Broadway in South Los Angeles tonight can expect to encounter an LAPD sobriety and drivers license checkpoint slated to run from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. As usual, the LAPD has a regimented plan for the checkpoint in order to both penalize intoxicated drivers and to educate the public about the dangers of driving under the influence: more ›

Public transportation in Los Angeles today received a boost with the news of a large loan from the federal government. Metro will receive more than a half billion in loaned funds for it's nine-mile Crenshaw/LAX light rail line, which will take riders between the Green Line at LAX and the Expo Line, which is currently under construction. more ›

The LAPD are releasing information about the rape of a teenage girl that took place this summer in South L.A. Two men followed the girl as she left a festival at Jim Gilliam park on the night of August 11th; one man acted as a lookout as the other raped the victim in a nearby carport. Though the lookout had the intent to also rape the victim, she was able to flee before a second attack occurred. more ›

The LAPD has surrounded the Imperial Courts Housing Project and shut down westbound traffic on the Imperial Highway following a shots fired call that apparently got of hand. more ›

Of the some 40,000 LADWP customers left without power over the last stormy (kinda) day, about 9,900 are still in the dark, according to the utility. That number is made up of 4,800 customers in South L.A., 1,800 on the Eastside and another 1,800 in Koreatown. Crews are still working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible. more ›

First a L.A. City Councilmember, now this? A state Senator who represents a portion of South L.A. and surrounding communities was indicted today for a number of felonies by a Los Angeles County Grand Jury. Senator Roderick Wright is accused of "filing a false declaration of candidacy, voter fraud and perjury beginning in 2007, when he changed his voter registration to run for the Legislature," according to the LA Times. more ›

Eddie North-Hager is a man with a mission, and he is not alone. The communities of Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, West Adams, and surrounding areas have dedicated themselves to the redevelopment of The Santa Barbara Plaza, often referred to as "Marlton Square." The Plaza has become a blight in the center of a vibrant community. Just a block away jacaranda trees shade a picture-perfect neighborhood more ›

The streets of South L.A. had a different kind of thug rolling--or slithering--around today: A 5-foot-long snake. The snake, though perhaps to have been a boa constrictor, was found by a woman "in the strip of grass between the sidewalk and West 46th Street, between Denker and Halldale avenues," according to cbs2. The woman called the fire department who were able to get "the snake into a five-gallon bucket" to "be turned over to L.A. Animal Services." more ›

[Update: 9th location announced for Saturday in Reseda. Added to list below.] more ›