Top Stories + Los Angeles Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 18, 2009
California’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman told a group of supporters Tuesday that she is making an unprecedented effort to attract Latinos to the Republican party – in South El Monte
August 16, 2009
In Los Angeles, Songs Without Borders – In clubs, bars, swap meets and concert halls, from car radios and ringing cellphones, you will hear corridos, old-time folk ballads in the banda and norteño styles
July 20, 2009
Latino-owned Businesses: Potential Boon For Economy – Study commissioned by newly-formed Latino Business Chamber shows Latino businesses are positioned to grow – Strengthening Latino Businesses in Greater Los Angeles
June 23, 2009
Top Obama Administration Officials to Engage Latino Leaders on Critical Policy Issues in Los Angeles This Week – NALEO Conference June 25-27
June 21, 2009
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s future, once bright, looks dimmer now
June 15, 2009
Computer ‘raid’ in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated – No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles. For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month
June 2, 2009
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa dating another newscaster former San Antonio broadcaster Lu Parker now with KTLA Channel 5
May 30, 2009
A title bout between two Eastsides in Los Angeles – The protest is no mere issue of semantics. It’s a threat to their community’s identity, the Eastsiders said. They argue that the term Eastside is synonymous, in California and beyond, with the Chicano movement; home to working-class immigrants and the city’s first Latino mayor in more than a century
May 14, 2009
Nearly one in six residents, or 46.9 million people, are Hispanic – The most Latino county in the nation was Los Angeles, with 4.7 million people
March 4, 2009
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wins second term as L.A. mayor – first Hispanic mayor in more than a century
December 9, 2008
East L.A., Latino heartland, revives its dream of cityhood – More than 30 years after the last attempt, the chances of success seem higher.
December 2, 2008
Antonio Villaraigosa says he won’t join Obama administration The mayor says he plans to stay in Los Angeles and focus on his reelection campaign and the city’s pressing issues.
November 21, 2008
The city of Los Angeles has tentatively agreed to pay nearly 13 million U.S. dollars to immigration protesters and bystanders injured by police officers during a melee last year, it was reported on Thursday.
September 25, 2008
During the evening of Wednesday, September 24th, Dionicio Morales, 89, died at Beverly Hospital in Montebello, CA. – Founded Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) that is one of the largest Mexican-American community service organizations with an annual budget of ~$60 million
September 17, 2008
15 LAPD officers face discipline in May Day melee – Police Chief William J. Bratton calls for four of the officers to be fired in connection with the 2007 debacle
September 9, 2008
Southern California’s taco truck war continued to sizzle as county officials asked a judge to reinstate a law he threw out last month that had forced truck operators to move every hour or face the threat of jail.
August 1, 2008
Dodgers get Manny Ramirez from Red Sox
June 26, 2008
LAPD won’t ask about immigration status – lawsuit thrown out
June 24, 2008
Jaime Jarrin links Dodgers to Spanish-speaking audience – Jarrin has gone from early slights to a 50-year broadcasting career that includes not only baseball but also covering the pope, White House visits and the slaying of Ruben Salazar.
May 27, 2008
South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards – Once predominantly African American, the area has seen an influx of Latino immigrants, along with their roosters, chickens and other barnyard beasts not typically part of the urban scene.
May 5, 2008
Politics and tacos don’t mix on L.A. streets
April 28, 2008
Diabetes Before Motherhood More Than Doubled In Six Years, Study Finds (52% of the participants were Latinas)
April 16, 2008
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, on April 4th, told a largely African-American audience in Compton that when Latino gangs are at war with black gangs over drugs and turf they are sometimes satisfied to kill any young black living in their rival’s territory in order to flex their criminal muscle.
April 14, 2008
An unusual blend of cultures: Mexican and black – Costa Chicans in Los Angeles – Immigrants from Costa Chica share an ancient ethnic heritage and culture that few outsiders know about.
April 2, 2008
Los Angeles clinic offers care for Mayas – Clinica Romero reaches a community that has generally been reluctant to seek Western treatment.
March 28, 2008
Los Angeles Votes Against Anti Immigrant Legislation
March 10, 2008
Activists take over L.A. streets celebrating 1968 ‘blowouts’ – Thousands re-enact the East Los Angeles high school boycotts by marching from Lincoln H.S. to Hazard Park. – Los Angeles
February 20, 2008
Latino officers are now LAPD’s majority
January 29, 2008
ICE to illegal immigrants: ‘We are coming after you’ – Los Angeles (tough headline – tough message)
January 11, 2008
Mexican education comes to U.S. – Adult immigrants can complete their basic education in Spanish at one of 13 centers across L.A. County.
January 3, 2008
Keeping up with day laborers not easy – Police officer in Orange devotes time to enforcing new rules that crack down on problems associated with day workers. – Orange, California
January 2, 2008
Activist fails to rally blacks on illegal-immigration issue – Los Angeles
December 28, 2007
Los Angeles Combating Gangs Gone International
November 26, 2007
Villaraigosa faces steep climb to California’s top job – After missteps, he must not only polish his image, but also fight off doubts about allegiance should run for reelection in 2009. – Los Angeles
November 25, 2007
The black-Latino blame game – Los Angeles
November 4, 2007
Pepe Mantilla is Lakers’ Spanish voice of authority – He’s called games for 15 seasons and says the team’s popularity continues to grow in Spanish-speaking community.
October 25, 2007
Mark Sanchez: The Mexican Mouthpiece of the University of Southern California
October 17, 2007
East L.A. is ready, financially, for independence
October 16, 2007
Members of Latino gang charged with race-motivated crimes – Los Angeles
October 14, 2007
Los Angeles police takes blame for violent May Day protest
October 2, 2007
Spanish-language newscaster involved with LA mayor leaves Telemundo
October 1, 2007
National Latino Congreso Convenes Friday (I will there for part of it)
September 25, 2007
Telemundo reassigns Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s girlfriend, Mirthala Salinas, to Riverside
September 9, 2007
The Cultural War on Diabetes – There’s an epidemic underway in this country, and minority communities are being hit hard. How two Los Angeles doctors are finding new ways to help.
September 7, 2007
Lawsuit grows against LAPD over immigration march melee
August 21, 2007
Nowadays, Juanes loves L.A.
August 9, 2007
Diabetes in Los Angeles continues to climb – Blacks, Latinos are especially hard hit
July 9, 2007
Los Angeles mayor’s infidelity costs him Latina support
May 14, 2007
LAPD Opens Dangerous Front in Immigrant Movement
May 9, 2007
Week after violent clash, LA immigrants announce June rally
May 8, 2007
UC Riverside Chancellor France A. Córdova Named Purdue University President
May 7, 2007
Dozens of LAPD Officers Benched for Their Role in May Day Melee
May 3, 2007
Los Angeles chief blasts police tactics at protest
April 9, 2007
Santa Ana chamber pushing residents to learn English – California
April 8, 2007
Thousands of Los Angeles marchers demand immigration rights
April 3, 2007
Riverside veteran finds passion for art after pain of war – Simon Gonzalez
March 26, 2007
Dueling LA immigration rallies mark anniversary of massive march
March 21, 2007
Latino leaders silence is killing blacks – L.A. is headed for a racial meltdown unless the two groups form a coalition.
March 14, 2007
Los Angeles Landlords Brag About Evicting Latino Families
March 2, 2007
Few Primary Care Practitioners Offer HIV Tests to Hispanic Patients in Los Angeles, New UCLA AIDS Institute Study Finds
February 12, 2007
Hospital Allegedly Dumps Homeless (Hispanic) Paraplegic – Los Angeles
February 5, 2007
Hispanic girls say they were beaten by black group – Inglewood, California
January 17, 2007
Latino gang in Harbor Gateway agrees to truce – Los Angeles
Racial Hate Feeds a Gang War’s Senseless Killing – Los Angeles
