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The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) is an independent Los Angeles County agency that administers and manages the retirement fund for the County and outside Districts (Little Lake Cemetery District, Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Office of Education, and South Coast Air Quality Management District). [3]
Warren Wilson, the former KTLA broadcast journalist who spent four decades covering some of the biggest stories in Los Angeles’ history, died Friday at his home in Oxnard, Calif. He was 90. His ...
Until 1936 the Los Angeles Limited was the top train of the Union Pacific as a rival to other Chicago to Los Angeles trains such as Santa Fe's California Limited, De Luxe, Chief, and the Southern Pacific's Rock Island Golden State Limited. In 1930 the train started carrying coaches for the first time because of the Great Depression. After the ...
The paper's scrappy, no-holds-barred, often unconventional coverage repeatedly challenged the dominant Los Angeles Times on stories about City Hall, local politics, the Los Angeles Police Department, the arts and sports, and its coverage was recognized repeatedly for its excellence by the Los Angeles Press Club. The paper was also slightly ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Sept. 2017 photo of LAUSD board member Dr. George McKenna at the L.A. Unified School District headquarters. (Los Angeles Times)
The SEIU Local 660 was a local union of the Service Employees International Union in the United States. It represented 50,000 Los Angeles County employees. The Union was investigated by the FBI for alleged embezzlement, specifically the former leader Alejandro Stephens. [1] It later merged with SEIU Local 721. [2]
Chandler greeting from Olvera Street children, 1938. In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that soon became responsible for also delivering many of the city's morning newspapers, which put him in contact with the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Harrison Gray Otis, who liked the entrepreneurial young man and hired him as the Times’ general ...