Andrew J. Campa covers the coming and goings of the Eastside, Boyle Heights, Echo Park, parts of the San Gabriel Valley and the Southeast Corridor for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked at the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena Star-News and has covered education, sports and general news. He’s a proud Cal State Fullerton (#tusksup) and Pasadena City College alumnus. He hopes the Chicago Bears will get back to the Super Bowl before he dies.
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La policía de Los Ángeles y la policía escolar presentes fuera de la Escuela Primaria Saticoy en North Hollywood el viernes por la mañana mientras algunos padres protestaban por una asamblea del Día del Orgullo.
Outside Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood, parents protesting a Pride Day assembly clashed with police and counterprotesters supporting LGBTQ+ rights and education.
Man acquitted of starting 2018 Holy fire, which burned 23,000 acres in Orange and Riverside counties
Trabuco Canyon’s Forrest Gordon Clark was acquitted on three charges of felony arson in connection with the Holy fire, which ripped through Cleveland National Forest in 2018. He was found guilty of making criminal threats.
A Monterey County sheriff’s deputy survived a shooting Wednesday morning by a suspect armed with an AK-47 and barricaded inside an apartment complex in Salinas. Law enforcement eventually shot the man to death.
One person was seriously stabbed and four others were wounded Tuesday. Police shot a male suspect on 2nd Street.
From a proposed prison near Boyle Heights to lead contamination from an Exide battery plant, Monsignor John Moretta has fought against threats to his mostly Latino, low-income parishioners.
West Hollywood native Max Buydakov is in mourning while struggling to fundraise for a funeral for his mother after she died Sunday while recovering from gunshot wounds after a West Hollywood standoff.
Renovations are underway to remake Paradise Pier Hotel next to California Adventure with designs inspired by the studio behind “Toy Story” and more.
The attack left the 61-year-old driver in critical condition and is the latest high-profile incidence of violence to rock the transit system.
Disneyland is shelving the “Fantasmic!” show until at least Labor Day. The last performance was April 22, when a 45-foot-tall animatronic dragon burst into flames.