Laura Newberry

Nurse Cindy Bayasgalan swabs first-grader Alyssa Ponce for a coronavirus infection at a mobile testing site at Telfair Elementary School in Pacoima last week.

$350 million. 1,000 health care workers. 500,000 tests weekly. Inside LAUSD’s virus testing effort

August 18, 2021 at 2:54 p.m.

LOS ANGELES – The scene at Telfair Elementary in the days leading up to the Monday opening of the school year reflected what will be the new normal across the...

Enrique sits by a canal in his hometown that he visits when he's feeling overwhelmed by his parents, who are not accepting of his queerness.

A year at home has forced many LGBTQ college students ‘back into the closet’

March 25, 2021 at 4:39 p.m.

Enrique stepped into his childhood bedroom on March 12, 2020, and felt the crushing absence of all that he had gained while at college for the previous seven months. The...

Unemployment claims| <a href=https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf>Initial unemployment claims seasonally adjusted</a> (week ending May 23, 2020): 2,123,000</p> |

<p>More than 2.1 million people filed a new unemployment claim for the week ending May 23. It indicates that companies that retained their staff through March and April may have needed to close in mid-May, or may have faced a slowdown that affected their ability to keep people employed.</p>

Amid COVID-19 family hardships, high school students work double-duty: jobs and school

February 9, 2021 at 4:43 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — It was never a question that Stephanie Contreras-Reyes would take the most rigorous AP classes her high school offers. It was never a question that she would...

Malachi Morris-Jackson, de 11 años y residente del sur de Los Angeles, en una clase gratuita de tutoría con Cooper Silverman (visto a través del teléfono inteligente), voluntario de El Nido Family Centers.

Tutorías privadas agravan desigualdades entre estudiantes

October 14, 2020 at 5:15 p.m.

A Malachi Morris-Jackson le costaba mucho el aprendizaje a distancia y estaba rezagado en lectura y álgebra cuando conoció a Cooper Silverman, estudiante de último año de preparatoria. En sesiones...

Carol Liston, 89, says her Studio City neighbors look out for her, even doing her grocery shopping. The coronavirus pandemic has brought ageism to the forefront implying that their lives are not as valuable as reviving the economy.

The pandemic has amplified ageism. ‘It’s open season for discrimination’ against older adults

May 4, 2020 at 8:40 p.m.

On the good days, Bonnie Reed believes that, for the first time in a long time, just about everyone is united in a common cause: to protect society's most vulnerable...

La estrella de Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, junto con su esposa Vanessa, cuando se declaró culpable de adulterio pero inocente de cargos de agresión sexual, en 2003, en el Staples Center.

Para las sobrevivientes de ataques sexuales, el legado de Kobe Bryant es complicado

February 5, 2020 at 4:27 p.m.

Cuando Shirley Alvarado del Águila fue a trabajar, el 27 de enero pasado, les dijo a sus colegas que no quería hablar sobre Kobe Bryant, quien había muerto el día...

A map shows the location of a shooting that killed rapper Nipsey Hussle and wounded two other people this afternoon.

Rapper Nipsey Hussle killed in South L.A. shooting; 2 others wounded

April 1, 2019 at 1:46 p.m.

Rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed Sunday afternoon in a shooting outside his store in South Los Angeles that left two other people wounded, law enforcement sources said. Hussle was shot...

Vanessa Marquez as Nurse Wendy Goldman on a 1995 episode of "ER."

‘ER’ actress Vanessa Marquez shot and killed by California police during wellness check at home

August 22, 2019 at 10:07 a.m.

Actress Vanessa Marquez was identified by authorities Friday as the 49-year-old woman shot and killed by police a day earlier during a welfare check at her apartment in South Pasadena....

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