“As a cook and chef, our industry was hit hard. Out of work and not able to pay bills, we found ourselves in the shelters and it was rough, but we were able to sustain ourselves,” said Francisco Pacheco,...
Erik Adams, Senior Multimedia Reporter
• April 28, 2023
Update: On April 18, The Service Employees United Local 99 said on its website that the Los Angeles Unified School District’s board voted unanimously to ratify the agreement, adding that the contract...
Edgar Aguirre, a 38-year-old Cal State LA student who was shot and killed at the beginning of April, was described by peers as “quirky,” “happy-go-lucky,” and “always having a smile on his face.”
Aguirre...
“I covered women’s basketball practice today and two of the stars, Nicole Flennaugh and Lily Buggs, came up to ask me who Brian Perez was. Apparently they’ve never been interviewed by him and he’s...
Austin Mace, a junior studying English, was found deceased in his on-campus apartment on April 5. A campus-wide email notified the Cal State LA community of the tragic news on the same day.
Mace’s...
On Monday, April 3, a campus-wide email revealed that a Cal State LA student was the victim who was shot and killed on Saturday, April 1, near the Golden Eagle Apartments.
Edgar Aguirre, the victim...
The article has been updated.
The 10 Freeway reopened after being closed for almost ten hours on Friday. Cars were packed along nearby streets as they rerouted around the closure.
A safety advisory...
Erik Adams, Senior Multimedia Reporter
• March 21, 2023
Three police officers were shot in the nearby Los Angeles neighborhood of Lincoln Heights on Wednesday, March 8, just under four miles away from Cal State LA’s campus.
In a press conference on the...
This story has been updated to include a statement from one of Zapata's attorney.
The man suspected of two different stabbings in East Los Angeles that occurred on March 3, including the fatal stabbing...
Some Cal State LA students are in shock after reports of a stabbing less than a quarter of a mile away from campus at Valley Food Liquor on Friday, Mar. 3 at 9:08 p.m.
According to a report on Citizen,...
The Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón and the Los Angeles Innocence Project held a news conference on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at the Cal State LA campus to announce the findings of an investigation...
Erik Adams, Senior Multimedia Reporter
• February 28, 2023
After the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria claimed tens of thousands of lives, some students may be reminded of experts’ predictions that “The Big One” will hit Southern California any day now.
Although...
