Betty Ford Remember At Calif. Service
Former First Lady Betty Ford is being laid to rest in Michigan Thursday. Her funeral was held Tuesday in Palm Desert, California. Among the speakers were former first lady Rosalyn Carter and the head...
View ArticleRedondo Beach: Unusual Leadership Dodges Red Ink
Part 4 of a 6-part seriesThe wall in the hallway outside the Redondo Beach Mayor's Office kind of says it all: There is row after row of smiling faces. Almost all male. All pale. Some blond, some gray....
View ArticleImmigrants' Status Explored In 'Barbarian Nurseries'
If Hector Tobar turns out to be the Charles Dickens or the Tom Wolfe of the 21st century, he owes a big thank-you to the people of California.Some of them, anyway."Really, 187's passage is what made me...
View ArticleCornel West, A Fighter, Angers Obama Supporters
Princeton University professor Cornel West has spent much of the past year battling with incensed Obama supporters from Al Sharpton to street demonstrators who resent his criticism of the...
View ArticleJury Finds Dr. Murray Guilty In Pop Star's Death
Dr. Conrad Murray is being held in a Los Angeles jail. Michael Jackson's personal physician was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Monday. Murray will be sentenced later this month and faces up...
View ArticleHerman Cain And The Politics Of Race
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View ArticleCelebrity Lawyer Takes Spotlight In Cain Case
It seems like hardly a month goes by without seeing celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred on television. This week, Allred was in the news again, representing one of presidential candidate Herman Cain's...
View ArticleSchool Transforms Teens' Lives, One Pound At A Time
First of two stories, which are part of an ongoing series on obesity in America. The first part begins in August as students start their weight-loss journey at Wellspring Academy, a boarding school in...
View ArticleDr. Conrad Murray Sentenced In King Of Pop's Death
Michael Jackson's personal physician has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the pop icon's death in 2009. Because of overcrowding in California's state prisons, Murray will serve...
View ArticleFor Teens, Weight Loss Sculpts New Lives
Second of two stories, which are part of an ongoing series on obesity in America. The first part begins in August as students start their weight-loss journey at Wellspring Academy, a boarding school in...
View ArticleConnie Rice: Conscience Of The City
For years, civil rights attorney Constance Rice says, she would wake up every morning trying to figure out new ways to sue the Los Angeles Police Department into policing minority communities more...
View ArticleWhitney Houston, A 'Perfect Instrument,' Dies
On the eve of the 54th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the conversation was all about Whitney Houston. The 48-year-old pop diva was discovered dead in her room at the Beverly Hilton Saturday afternoon....
View ArticleSold: Dodgers Get New Owners
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: It's the day Dodger fans have been waiting for. The Los Angeles team has new owners, provided a bankruptcy judge approves. Current owner Frank McCourt has agreed to sell...
View ArticleData Reveals Complex Picture Of Hispanic Americans
Just over half of Americans of Spanish-speaking origin have no preference between the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino," according to new data from the Pew Hispanic Center.Of those with a preference, 33...
View ArticleRodney King Comes To Grips With 'The Riot Within'
With a helicopter buzzing overhead, the videotape of Rodney King's encounter with police is so famous, you could say he was beaten into American history: The image of him writhing in pain as several...
View ArticleThe L.A. Riots: Looking Back At A City Under Siege
Twenty years ago Sunday, Los Angeles erupted into destructive riots after the verdict in the Rodney King trial. The violence lasted six days and left more than 50 dead and over $1 billion in damage....
View ArticleObama To Visit View Park, Calif.
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.DAVID GREENE, HOST: And I'm David Greene.The latest jobs numbers were worse than economists had been...
View ArticleNailing The American Dream, With Polish
If you've had a manicure in California, odds are the person at the other end of the emery board was of Vietnamese heritage.Vietnamese immigrants now dominate California's nail-care industry — and make...
View ArticleA Trailblazing Black Architect Who Helped Shape L.A.
Paul Revere Williams began designing homes and commercial buildings in the early 1920s. By the time he died in 1980, he had created some 2,500 buildings, most of them in and around Los Angeles, but...
View ArticleAt Bravo, A Pop-Culture Kingpin Works Day And Night
Andy Cohen has been yakking for most of his 44 years. He has a book titled Most Talkative— a title he earned in high school."My mouth has been my greatest asset and also my biggest Achilles' heel," he...
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