Caroline Petrow-Cohen
Reporting Fellow at Los Angeles Times
@latimes reporter, @dukeU alum, @bobsburgersfox fan
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latimes.com | Caroline Petrow-Cohen |Hannah Fry
A Japanese American professor and Vietnam veteran was struck by a vehicle and called a racial slur while riding his bike last month in Montebello in an incident that police are investigating as a possible hate crime. Aki Maehara, a 71-year-old Asian American history professor, suffered serious injuries to his elbow, neck, cheekbones, jaw, hips and lower back, he told The Times in an interview on Monday.
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miamiherald.com | Caroline Petrow-Cohen |James Rainey
LOS ANGELES - Amid a wave of unprecedented tariffs, anxiety is running high for truck drivers like Helen, who makes her living delivering cargo containers from the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors to warehouses and other customers around Southern California. After a strong start to the year, the number of jobs has started to slip in recent days and truck drivers have heard reports predicting a sharp decline in incoming cargo for May and June.
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latimes.com | Caroline Petrow-Cohen
Shoppers at the Skechers store in Manhattan Beach last summer. Skechers, the Manhattan Beach footwear brand, is going private in a $9.4-billion deal. New York investment firm 3G Capital will acquire the company in a transaction that is expected to close in the third quarter, the company said Monday. Skechers had a market value of about $7.4 billion before the deal was announced. The $9.4-billion valuation reflects a price of $63 per share when accounting for Class A and Class B shares.
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dailygazette.com | Caroline Petrow-Cohen |James Rainey
LOS ANGELES — Amid a wave of unprecedented tariffs, anxiety is running high for truck drivers like Helen, who makes her living delivering cargo containers from the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors to warehouses and other customers around Southern California. After a strong start to the year, the number of jobs has started to slip in recent days and truck drivers have heard reports predicting a sharp decline in incoming cargo for May and June.
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latimes.com | Caroline Petrow-Cohen |James Rainey
A 2023 report found that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach contributed $21.8 billion in direct revenue to local service providers, generating $2.7 billion in state and local taxes and creating 165,462 jobs, directly and indirectly. Above, containers sit at a rail yard in the City of Commerce.
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