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2 weeks ago | 
thederrick.com | Howard Blume |Melissa Gomez
LOS ANGELES — Federal officials arrived and were denied entry at two L.A. Unified elementary schools this week, district officials confirmed Wednesday, the first reported instance of an attempt by U.S. authorities to enter a Los Angeles public school amid concerns of immigration enforcement. Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
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2 weeks ago | 
swoknews.com | Howard Blume |Melissa Gomez
LOS ANGELES — Federal officials arrived and were denied entry at two L.A. Unified elementary schools this week, district officials confirmed Wednesday, the first reported instance of an attempt by U.S. authorities to enter a Los Angeles public school amid concerns of immigration enforcement.
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1 month ago | 
thederrick.com | Melissa Gomez |Melissa Gomez
K.W. Lee, a pioneering Korean American journalist credited with sparking a movement to free a wrongfully convicted Korean immigrant from death row and inspiring a legion of journalists and activists, has died. He was 96. Lee died from natural causes on March 8, surrounded by his family in Sacramento. Lee became the first Korean immigrant in the continental U.S. to work at a major mainstream newspaper when he was hired by The Kingsport Times-News in Tennessee in 1956.
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2 months ago | 
thederrick.com | Melissa Gomez |Melissa Gomez
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County's sizable Asian immigrant communities are bracing for disruption and heartache as rumors swirl of mass deportations to be carried out under sweeping new orders issued by the Trump administration.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thederrick.com | Melissa Gomez |Susanne Rust
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
centredaily.com | Melissa Gomez
A mountain lion was found dead Saturday morning, June 15, 2024, on the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, California, not far from a wildlife crossing being built to reduce the number of cougar fatalities. (Living Habitats and National Wildlife Federation/TNS) TNS LOS ANGELES - A mountain lion was found dead Saturday morning on the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, not far from a wildlife crossing being built to reduce the number of cougar fatalities.
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May 3, 2024 | 
police1.com | Melissa Gomez
By Melissa GomezLos Angeles TimesMERCED COUNTY, Calif. — In Merced County, which stretches from the Sierra Nevada foothills west across vast acres of orchards and farmland, Sheriff Vern Warnke increasingly finds himself the only law enforcement officer available to answer a call for help. Most recently, the department received a call from a woman regarding a domestic dispute, saying her husband had a gun.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
union-bulletin.com | Melissa Gomez
LOS ANGELES — A San Gabriel Valley woman who was accused of using counterfeit postage on tens of millions of packages pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding the United States Postal Service out of more than $150 million. Lijuan "Angela" Chen, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and one count of using counterfeit postage, according to a statement from the U.S. Justice Department. Chen, a resident of Walnut, has been in federal custody since she was arrested in May 2023.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
gazettextra.com | Melissa Gomez
LOS ANGELES — A San Gabriel Valley woman who was accused of using counterfeit postage on tens of millions of packages pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding the United States Postal Service out of more than $150 million. Lijuan "Angela" Chen, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and one count of using counterfeit postage, according to a statement from the U.S. Justice Department. kAmr96?[ 2 C6D:56?E @7 (2=?FE[ 92D 366? :? 7656C2= 4FDE@5J D:?46 D96 H2D 2CC6DE65 :?
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Jenny Jarvie |Melissa Gomez
LOS ANGELES — Officials shut down the campus of Cal Poly Humboldt on Monday night after masked pro-Palestinian protesters occupied an administrative building and barricaded the entrance as Gaza-related demonstrations roiled campuses across the nation.
