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With just over a month left in his second and final term, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will leave office in June reportedly without a place to live or a car of his own to drive, according to a report published Thursday.
City Councilman Eric Garcetti defeated current City Controller in the race to become the next mayor of Los Angeles.
Early ballot returns Tuesday night showed that voters strongly supported a measure that would cap the number of medical marijuana shops in Los Angeles.
Carmen Trutanich conceded to Mike Feuer late Tuesday night in the contest for the next city attorney of Los Angeles, while an "outsider" was leading a veteran for the new city controller.
Los Angeles County prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to retry five former Bell officials convicted of misappropriating public funds.
Voters headed to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballot on election day in Los Angeles.
Polling locations opened at 7 a.m. and LA city residents will have the option of choosing between Democratic candidates, Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel.
Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel did some last-minute campaigning around Los Angeles one day before Tuesday's runoff election for mayor.
Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.
A California law that requires all semiautomatic handguns to be equipped with technology that stamps a code with the weapon's make, model and serial number on bullet casings is now in effect after years of delays.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris met with a new statewide taskforce of district attorneys Friday to study ways to reduce gun violence and enforce existing law.
As the mayoral race draws near, both campaigns are heavily courting the Latino voter with Spanish-speaking TV ads.
Gov. Jerry Brown is defending his proposal to shift some education spending to the state's neediest children.
The Los Angeles city attorney race has heated up less than a week before the May 21 runoff election.
A study that tracked California parolees has found no spike in arrests since responsibility for many ex-convicts shifted to local authorities under the state's prison realignment law.
