Ladera Heights News

"On the night of August 23-24, 1944, as we prepared to enter combat, we suddenly realized that this was no training exercise: an enemy patrol might be lurking behind the next culvert or house, or the deafening roar of a firearm might be the next and last sound that we heard.

If the state's persistent budget crisis has stirred anti-incumbent sentiment among voters, you'd be hard pressed to see much evidence of it in Tuesday's special election to fill the vacant seat in the Los Angeles-area's 26th state Senate district.

Compton City Councilwoman Yvonne Arceneaux and West Basin Municipal Water District Director Gloria D. Gray were seated Tuesday as the newest members of the Metropolitan Water District board.

This year, California state and local governments will spend close to $10 million on at least three elections we do not need.

With a focus on economic development, L.A. County's newest supervisor hit the ground running with an ambitious agenda to jump-start catalytic projects in the Second District The newest member of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, Mark Ridley-Thomas has already jump-started a number of economic development policy initiatives for his district, ...

Democratic Assemblyman Curren Price handily finished first Tuesday in a race for the vacant state Senate seat that represents much of Los Angeles, but will need to win a May runoff after failing to get a majority of the vote.

On Tuesday March 24th there is a special election to fill the vacancy in the 26th State Senate district caused by Mark Ridley-Thomas becoming a Los Angeles County Supervisor last December.

Alberto Dionicio-Ramirez, a 22-year-old Latino man, was shot multiple times in the chest, left arm and left hip Monday, Nov.

Assemblymember Curren Price has been racking up the endorsements in his attempt to replace Mark Ridley-Thomas in the 26th District of the State Senate in a special election to be held March 24th, 2009.

Inglewood Unified School District Vice President Trina Williams said "there have always been concerns" about Measure K expenditures.

Assemblyman Curren Price has moved from Inglewood to a new home in Ladera Heights so he can run for the state Senate seat vacated by county Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. Price is expected to face Assemblyman ...

Here are some of the stories in the Southland on Monday... Dense Fog Advisory Passengers on a fog-diverted flight from El Salvador have finally arrived at Los Angeles International Airport after spending nearly ...

My anxieties and my past finally caught up with me, a campaign news junkie, on the day before last month's election.

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Authorities say a woman has been killed in a Southern California house fire. Los Angeles County Fire Capt.