Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

Howard Zinn, the 87-year-old leftist historian who had taught at Boston University and Spelman College, died in Santa Monica today reportedly of a heart attack.

As the Los Angeles Unified School Districts seeks a new chief for its police department, student rights advocates today called for an overhaul to the way the department carries out its mission.

Since 10:30 this morning Orange County fire crews have been reinforcing 15-foot tall sand berms in Seal Beach to protect oceanfront homes from growing surf.

Coastal, low-lying areas such as Sunset Beach are a source of concern for Orange County officials.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill into law at an elementary school in Compton and promised it would turn around low-performing public schools.

A couple of years ago MOCA, Los Angeles — one of the most prestigious contemporary art museums in the world — was broke, nearly to the point of closing its doors. It has appointed a new chief. The new museum director hopes to use his vast private art world experience to the museum’s benefit.

The week-long event in 1910 turned a flat field near what's now the city of Carson into the world capital of heavier-than-air flight.

More than a thousand people overflowed the Church of the Nativity in El Monte this morning to pay their last respects to slain educator and school board member Bobby Salcedo.

Burial is scheduled today for El Monte educator Bobby Salcedo, one week after gunmen killed him in a drug cartel hot zone in Northern Mexico.

Burial is scheduled this week for Bobby Salcedo, a popular El Monte educator fatally shot in Mexico on New Year’s Eve. Mexico’s consul general in Los Angeles says the incident, while tragic, shouldn’t discourage travel to Mexico.

Teenagers drop out of school for many reasons – social, psychological, family stresses and academic challenges. Learning Works charter school in Pasadena employs more than half a dozen young people, some only a couple of years out of high school, to chase down dropouts, check on their performance and help them keep a lid on the drama in their lives.

In less than two years the Learning Works charter school in Pasadena has helped many chronic dropouts and minors on probation to finish their studies and earn high school diplomas.