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WATTS (KTLA) -- Police are looking for a suspect and motive after couple was found shot to death in a drive-by shooting Saturday night in Watts. The couple -- an 18-year-old and 19-year-old woman -- were shot about 8:30 p.m. in the 10600 block of Grape...

At the Anchorage airport, you’ll find lots of passengers unhappy about the news that the airline industry netted 3.4 billion dollars in baggage fees last year, a 24% increase from 2009.  You can count Tasneem Watts of Anaheim, California among...

At the Anchorage airport, you’ll find lots of passengers unhappy about the news that the airline industry netted $3.4 billion in baggage fees last year, a 24 percent increase from 2009. You can count Tasneem Watts of Anaheim, California among...

Former Los Angeles Jordan Coach Sheron Butler is trying to boost the fortunes of Inglewood Morningside, which played in the L.A. Watts Summer Games passing tournament last weekend. Quarterback Greg Adams, receiver Chad Conner and defensive back Ryan...

Curiosity for Rent: Alexander Ruler of the World Apartments, Hollywood Classically Greek and exuberantly tweaked, the 60-unit Alexander Ruler of the World Apartments were purportedly built by Paramount Studios to house actors in 1927. Actor George Pan-...

Three people were killed overnight in two separate shootings in South Los Angeles, police said Sunday. In the first incident, Saturday shortly after 8:30 p.m., an 18-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were killed in a drive-by shooting in Watts,......

At least five people were killed in four separate incidents in Los Angeles over the weekend, police said Sunday. On Saturday, shortly after 8:30 p.m., an 18-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were killed in a drive-by shooting in Watts,......

The late Gil Scott-Heron was many things -- poet, activist, icon, cipher -- but it’s easy to forget: He could sing, too. Following his passing on May 27, a parade of accolades have lauded his achievements as a cultural figure,......

When Maya Rupert wrote an article frowning at several Southern states for officially celebrating Confederate History Month, Internet critics lined up to fire back. But this time, they arrived with more than harsh words. The 28-year-old Los Angeles...

Caffie Greene, a longtime community activist who played a key role in the effort to bring a major hospital to South Los Angeles after the 1965 Watts riots, died Tuesday at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood. She was 91 and had a number of ailments,...

LOS ANGELES -- Police in Watts shot and killed a bicyclist armed with a rifle on Christmas morning. It happened around 4 a.m. at the Jordan Down Housing Projects. Police had received a report of an assault involving a rifle. They were questioning people...

Jack Jones, a longtime Los Angeles Times reporter who was part of a team that shared the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper's coverage of the Watts riots and their aftermath, has died. He was 86. Jones, who retired in 1989, died of lung disease...