California
Victor McElhaney was studying music at USC, but his mother said his heart was in his hometown of Oakland.
March 11, 2019
A suspected gang member has been charged in the killing of a USC student during an attempted robbery in March, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office announced Tuesday.
July 2, 2019
Entertainment & Arts
Dying Young by Marti Leimbach (Doubleday: $17.95; 277 pp.).
Feb. 2, 1990
The Homicide Report Blog
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July 25, 2007
Television
Don’t you just hate it when a character on a soap behaves totally contradictory to his prior behavior just to advance a plot?
Sept. 26, 1993
Obituaries
His semiautobiographical novel ‘Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida,’ about growing up Mexican American in California’s Central Valley, won the award for young people’s literature.
March 3, 2011
Movies
Writer-director Peter Sollett finds tenderness and realism in a romance between Latino teens in ‘Raising Victor Vargas,’ his feature debut.
April 18, 2003
Sports Now
Nov. 21, 2008
St. Victor’s in West Hollywood marks its centennial as a haven of diversity. In recent years it has seen an influx of young families.
Sept. 10, 2006
On the eve of July 4, 1976, a couple on Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation celebrate the bicentennial of the white man’s independence with a lively party that ends in tragedy when their home catches fire, costing them their lives.
June 26, 1998