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Griffith Park Observatory, L.A. Zoo and the Hollywood sign. Several of Los Angeles' most iconic landmarks, including Griffith Park, the Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood sign that welcomes ...
Thieves stole as much $30 million in an Easter Sunday burglary at a Los Angeles money storage facility in one of the largest cash heists in city history, police said Wednesday. The burglary ...
(The Center Square) - Hundreds of fire hydrants were stolen from the ground for scrap metal in advance of the blazes raging across Los Angeles, highlighting the local government’s challenges in ...
A peace officer component was created in the late 1980s and reorganized in 2003 when Los Angeles City Council members Wendy Greuel and Jack Weiss proposed to create the Office of Public Safety by merging the many city security services (General Services Police, Library Security, City Park Rangers, Convention Center Security, and Los Angeles Zoo ...
The Los Angeles Zoo has been successful in its breeding program of the rare California condor, helping to grow the number of condors in the world from a low of 22 in the 1980s to over 430 today. [30] It is one of the few zoos worldwide to have the mountain tapir , and is the only zoo outside of Peru and Brazil to house the red uakari .
The first zoo in Los Angeles was the Eastlake Zoo in East Los Angeles, which opened in 1885. [2]: 37 The Griffith Park Zoo opened in 1912 with a grand total of 15 animals. The new zoo was built on the site of Griffith J. Griffith's defunct ostrich farm.
In one of the largest cash heists in Los Angeles history, thieves made off with as much as $30 million in an Easter Sunday burglary at a San Fernando Valley money storage facility, an L.A. police ...
Mack was arrested in December 1997 for robbery of $722,000 from a South Central Los Angeles branch of the Bank of America. He was sentenced to fourteen years and three months in federal prison . Mack has never revealed the whereabouts of the money.