Eastsiders knew Bobby Lee Verdugo as a civil rights activist. His loved ones remember him as a great father, the family comedian and “Santa Claus.” Verdugo died on May 1 at age 69, surrounded...

When I was 9 years old, my mom dropped a bombshell on me. She told me that our family would be moving from Los Angeles County to Bakersfield. I had grown up with nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles...

From the day Gabriel Posadas was born almost two years ago, his mother, Sabrina Renteria, worried about him. Among other issues, he had been born with dislocations of the knees and was diagnosed with...

Alhambra resident Laura Linares was barely making ends meet before the pandemic. Now that she has been laid off from her job as an input coordinator, the situation is dire. She told her apartment...

Since the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent school closures, it seems almost everyone in the Olvera-Mash family is taking on new roles. Grandmother Maria Olvera is now the primary caregiver during...

When a fire in Brentwood led her university to close this fall, Jasmin Chavez was bummed but she took solace in knowing she’d soon be back on the university’s idyllic campus in the Santa Monica Mountains. Chavez,...

If you told me when I was a freshman in 2015 that my graduation might be canceled and classes would be on Zoom, I probably would have said “Oh well.” Graduation, to me, was expensive, and frankly,...

For Andrea Margarita Flores, the start of her last semester at Cal State LA held so much promise and excitement. Options for the child development major seemed unlimited — from small details like how...

Who knew that just three words could change your life?  It was February of 2014 and I was a sophomore in high school. My parents, brother and I had just finished eating dinner and we were all sitting...

Since the rapid expansion of the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent quarantine, the American economy has sustained immense damage, with virtually no sector being spared. The film industry, and...

Eagle Rock and Highland Park may soon have more police presence. Earlier this year, Eagle Rock’s neighborhood council discussed a proposal to bring a designated foot patrol to the community. Eagle...

Despite concerns about the abundance of liquor stores in South Los Angeles, the Voices Neighborhood Council voted 8-2 in support of a neighborhood 7-Eleven store’s proposal to stay open around the clock...