Parents, School Officials Push City Council To Cut Fines For Truant LAUSD Students
Students, parents and school district officials have complained the penalties could have a negative effect on attendance.
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Students, parents and school district officials have complained the penalties could have a negative effect on attendance.
Teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are expected to protest Tuesday as the school board meets to consider budget cuts and layoffs.
Former Los Angeles gymnasts and aspiring Olympians say they were tortured, burned, and sexually abused by their coach in the 1970s and '80s before they became teenagers.
Police need the public's help to find the drivers in a hit-and-run crash that killed a ballet dancer and teacher of disabled children.
Cash-strapped this Valentine's Day? Still don't have a gift for that special someone?
Overall reported crime in the areas patrolled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in January increased by 7.09 percent from January 2011, according to preliminary figures released Monday.
It was just a year ago when CBS2 reporter Serene Branson made international news when she suffered a migraine, causing her to speak incoherently during her on-air report outside the 2011 Grammy Awards.
A 51-year-old man who died following a fight at a gas station in the unincorporated Athens Village area had kidnapped the 44-year-old man he fought with, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives determined Monday.
A memorial to the late Whitney Houston has been growing outside the Beverly Hilton because the singer, lauded by the likes of Dionne Warwick and cultivated by ubiquitous talent finder Clive Davis, has no star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
An autopsy on the singer was completed Sunday; however the coroner is not officially saying what killed the six-time Grammy winner.
President Barack Obama's proposed 2012-13 budget unveiled Monday includes more than $80 million for two high-profile Los Angeles transit projects -- a subway extension to Westwood and an underground light rail downtown.
The public's help was sought Monday in identifying a strong-armed robbery who held up a gas station in El Sereno.
"The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening donated $500,000 to UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, so that working professionals can teach classes in the animation program.
Jon Garland may give the Cleveland Indians yet another option for their uncertain rotation.
The 21-year-old son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was free on bail Monday after being arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence.
