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Top LA news: Police identify suspects in deadly hit-and-run; Art Kunkin, Free Press publisher, dies

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Published on May 10, 2019
Top LA news: Police identify suspects in deadly hit-and-run; Art Kunkin, Free Press publisher, diesPhoto: Olenka Kotyk/Unsplash

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LAPD identifies occupants of vehicle that killed two Highland Park brothers

Los Angeles police are looking for two individuals they've identified as being involved in the deadly hit-and-run in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles on May 5 in which two brothers lost their lives.

Read the full story on Fox 11 Los Angeles.

South LA. was promised a Target. Millions of dollars later, it has a vacant lot

The District Square project on Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los Angeles was supposed to be a catalyst, showing what was possible in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Read the full story on Los Angeles Times.

Tongva, Los Angeles’ first language, opens the door to a forgotten time and place

For decades Tongva, the language of the first people who lived in the Los Angeles region, was consigned to notebooks and papers hidden away in museums. Through the efforts of a UCLA linguist, Tongva is being spoken again, and another world is being revealed.

Read the full story on Los Angeles Times.

Art Kunkin, Free Press publisher who was the pied piper of counterculture in L.A., dies at 91

One of the first alternative papers in the nation, the Free Press was launched to tell what the Los Angeles Times would not.

Read the full story on Los Angeles Times.


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