Rina Palta
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Numbers indicate California's poorest are finally benefitting from a rising economy, but local food banks and other social services say they're as busy as ever.
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Operators of winter shelters say numbers are down this year, and they think location might be the problem. They say NIMBY-ism has kept them from renting space in centralized parts of LA County. -
County supervisors voted to put a 1/4 cent sales tax hike on the March ballot. It would generate more than $300 million. But will voters give it the green light? -
L.A. County, looking for millions of dollars to fund its plan to eradicate homelessness, will likely turn to voters for a way to raise the cash. -
Voters in the city of L.A. approved a bond measure that will invest $1.2 billion to build new housing for the city's homeless. That's a first step, officials say. -
The number of defendants declared "incompetent to stand trial" due to mental illness on pace to hit 4500 this year. That's up from about 3500 last year. -
L.A. County is looking to beef up its apparatus for countering violent extremism by creating a unit to identify radicals behind bars. -
L.A. County Fire Department paramedics are exhausted after seeing a 32 percent increase in calls for emergency medical care over the past three years. -
Under a new county policy, homeless people who commit low-level crimes will be directed to shelters and mental health services. Arrests will be a last resort.
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An 11-year-old boy found dead in his mother's closet last week had been the subject of multiple reports to child welfare authorities.
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