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One sunny afternoon in Lancaster, an hour's drive north of Los Angeles in the Antelope Valley, Angel Mendez woke from an afternoon nap to a sound outside the 7-by-7-foot makeshift… More >>

The day after the L.A. school board election, which some said was about Superintendent John Deasy although he wasn't even on the ballot, he appeared at a UCLA event with… More >>

A Fine Young Man Our biggest mail-getter last week was Michael Krikorian's story about Deshawn Cole triumphing over his hard-scrabble background and a sexual orientation that often goes unacknowledged in the… More >>

Asked if being poor, black and gay hurt him at the start of his career, author James Baldwin famously replied that his situation "was so outrageous ... you had to… More >>

The Business of Baseball Who's paying for Major League baseball? Increasingly, as Pete Kotz reported in our March 29 issue, it's cable subscribers, forced to pay fat premiums even as fewer… More >>

Police in riot gear guard the dugouts, preparing for the worst, with German shepherds at heel. This is Philadelphia in 1980, after all. It's the bottom of the ninth. Two strikes.… More >>

The hit-and-run driver of the minivan that struck bicyclist Damian Kevitt one morning near Griffith Park must have felt and heard the impact. He probably saw Kevitt caught on his… More >>

Death of a Firefighter As Gene Maddaus reported last week, when faulty construction led to a fire that claimed the life of a 36-year LAFD veteran, architect Gerard Becker was charged… More >>