Florence-Graham News

Blacks in South L.A. Have A Bleaker Jobs Picture Than In 1992 Median income in South Los Angeles is lower now than during the 1992 riots, and the unemployment rate has reached even more dire levels.

In the aftermath of the 1992 riots, Pastor Cecil L. Murray of First AME Church emerged as a civic leader willing to address the social and economic causes of the violence that tore through the city.

Investigators shut down two more fraudulent plastics recycling operations in Los Angeles County, arrested seven individuals including owners and confiscated three pellet-producing grinders.

A Blue Line train struck and killed a pedestrian in South Los Angeles in a case being investigated as a possible suicide, authorities said today.