https://youtu.be/LofU0m8OsJ4 Every second counts during an emergency response emergency vehicles rely on drivers to do their part and clear the… See the most recent messages from LASD - Marina Del Rey Station, Los Angeles County Sheriff, powered by Nixle Sign up to receive messages by email & text message California https://www.instagram.com/p/CmiQUDOrBuk/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY= Marina Del Rey Station (@mdrlasd) • Instagram photo California https://www.instagram.com/p/CmaNHEWPwTy/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY= Marina Del Rey Station (@mdrlasd) • Instagram photos and videos Conducted sunset hoist training with our partners at the USCG Air Station SanFrancisco FOB Point Mugu https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl7srKvrn3M/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY= The primary Mission of Parking Enforcement Detail (PED) is to ensure the residents of the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County are provided with expeditious vehicle movement to help alleviate parking congestion improve the availability of parking choices and to assist the communities in addressing all parking related matters apportion scarce parking spaces for all legitimate vehicles by insuring those who violate parking regulations are properly addressed through the California Vehicle Codes (CVC) the Los Angeles County Vehicle Codes (LACoVC) and other various municipal codes Each Los Angeles County Sheriff's Station has a Parking Enforcement unit Please visit the Stations page to find your local Sheriff's Station Station Locations Please visit the LA county Sheriff's Department Pay by web site Pay by web For more street services in LA County please report your problem here: Public Works Los Angeles County To contact the proper Sheriff's station for your parking concerns and to send an email request for service; first determine who services your address by entering the area location address and click the "Find" button Captain Keith Harrison graduated from the Sheriff’s Academy and began his career at the Inmate Reception Center where he served as a line deputy and training officer.  In 1997 and shortly thereafter was selected to work on the transition team to open the new LAX Airport Courthouse.  In 2000 he transferred to Marina Del Rey Station where he worked patrol the Summer Enforcement and Community Relations/Special Problems Teams.  As a Community Relations/Special Problems Team member he began the station first Youth Activities League and Clergy Council Programs Harrison promoted to Sergeant and was assigned to Twin Towers Correctional Facility where he worked the High Mental Observations Floors and the Correctional Treatment Center.  In 2014 he returned to Marina Del Rey Station where he worked the Field Sergeant Harrison promoted to Lieutenant and transferred to County Services Bureau Service Area and Detective Bureau Lieutenant.  In 2021 he again returned to Marina Del Rey Station as the Operations Lieutenant.  In June of 2023 Harrison has been a lifelong member of Faithful Central Bible Church where he has been a mentor teacher and group leader for its Rites of Passage and Champion Men’s programs for many years Harrison received an Administrative Arts Degree from West Los Angeles College and a Bachelor of Science Degree from California State University of Long Beach the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to move forward with new zoning rules for the unincorporated communities located in the Westside and the South Bay which could accommodate the development of nearly 11,000 new homes The Westside Area Plan, includes eight unincorporated areas - Ladera Heights The new regulations do not impact zoning Marina del Rey or unincorporated West Los Angeles which are governed by its own specific plan and under federal jurisdiction Gilmore Island is being annexed into the City of Los Angeles to facilitate the Television City redevelopment while hillside areas and open spaces like the Ballona Wetlands and Franklin Canyon remain largely unchanged New zoning regulations are spurred by the 2021-2029 Hosing Element which requires the rezoning or redesignation of multiple properties in the Westside by 2025 to accommodate up to 5,548 new homes While 62 sites would receive new land use designations much of the proposed growth would be accommodated by redevelopment of 10 opportunity sites identified in the plan In Ladera Heights and View Park/Windsor Hills located in West Fox Hills (also known as Alsace or unincorporated Del Rey) includes a stretch of parcels along the west side of Centinela Avenue to the north of Jefferson Boulevard.  Located directly across the street from the Playa Vista development this corridor is pitched as an extension of the development pattern to the south calling for mixed-use residential buildings to replace commercial structures The South Bay Area Plan, includes neighborhoods such as Alondra Park/El Camino Village, Del Aire, Hawthorne Island, La Rambla, Lennox, West Carson the updated South Bay plan stems from the 2021-2029 Housing Element and will require the redesignation of 94 properties to accommodate a potential 5,361 residential units The final plan is remains substantially the same as what was first rolled out to the community in 2023 targeting certain commercial corridors and neighborhoods near transit stops for additional density This includes the stretch of Hawthorne Boulevard in the Lennox neighborhood which sits to the north of the C Line and the I-105 Freeway the west side of Crenshaw Boulevard to the north of El Camino Community College the west side of Inglewood Boulevard in Wiseburn and on the parcels surrounding Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in West Carson a more modest transition from single-family zoning to R2 Zone is proposed in the Del Aire area which sits immediately to the south of Metro's Aviation/LAX Station The vote by the Board of Supervisors certifies the environmental impact reports for both plans and directs County Counsel to begin preparing a final ordinance for adoption at a future date Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn / Threads / Instagram / Bluesky This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. 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Cathy Park These are handy back-up restaurants and beloved local spots Southern Inglewood Dulan’s is an LA soul food institution, with two locations in Inglewood (and one in Crenshaw). Where to find fantastic mac and cheese, greens, smothered chops, and more. Cathy is a California native who left her job in tech to eat for a living. She believes every meal should end with something sweet (it’s science). Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker retains a sense of community 1/5 The Westside enclave is one of those rare communities in Los Angeles where people get to know each other 2/5 Its proximity to Culver City and other hot tech hubs could mean that the community will see even higher housing prices 3/5 Its proximity to Culver City and other hot tech hubs could mean that the community will see even higher housing prices 4/5 The inventory of architecturally intact Midcentury Modern homes is impressive but it’s doubtful you’ll find a stylish house for under $1 million 5/5 The church is on Slauson Avenue Print On the southern slopes of the Baldwin Hills just a stone’s throw from the pump jacks that dot the Inglewood Oil Field one of the wealthiest neighborhoods on the Westside Its median household income tops Brentwood’s and its inventory of architecturally intact Midcentury Modern homes is almost unmatched in Los Angeles Yet it is rarely mentioned in the same breath as other celebrated pockets of postwar residential architecture and the charmless sprawl of Culver City’s Fox Hills business district Part of it may also be because the wealthy residents of Ladera Heights are more likely to be of the professional class rather than the attention-drawing celebrity residents of nearby Baldwin Hills Ladera Heights is a relatively new neighborhood as well The first homes were not laid out in the lower Old Ladera portion of the neighborhood until the late 1940s and many homes in the hills were built after the 1970s It was all scrubland before the first foundations were laid by the L.A a real estate concern run by Reuben Ingold who helped develop many of the communities in and around the Baldwin Hills the company began selling land to developers eager to get their hands on virgin territory on the booming Westside as fast as they could get permits from the county Earl cut their teeth designing homes in Ladera Heights Earl would go on to design luxury residences for stars such as Warren Beatty and Madonna including a number of homes in Donald Trump’s Rancho Palos Verdes development and Wong built celebrated houses across the Baldwin Hills When Los Angeles’ discriminatory housing practices were struck down by the courts in the 1960s began buying in Ladera Heights and neighboring communities Where some communities experienced rapid demographic shifts Ladera Heights did not see racially anxious whites fleeing their new neighbors in the numbers that Baldwin Hills and View Park did and today the neighborhood is one of the more diverse on the Westside An idyllic enclave: Isolated from the web of surface streets clogged with Waze-wielding commuters Ladera Heights represents a peaceful oasis on the bustling Westside Silicon Beach-adjacent: As L.A.’s tech corridor has subsumed everything between Santa Monica and El Segundo Ladera Heights offers hillside living with a commute even Elon Musk would love Meet your neighbors: With a strong community spirit and a foundation of longtime residents neighborhoods where people get to know each other Here come the speculators: Ladera Heights’ proximity to Culver City and other hot tech hubs is sure to drive prices in what is already an expensive market upward “Ladera Heights homes are stylish and well-kept,” said Natalie Johnson but you probably won’t find one for under $1 million.” She added that across the neighborhood’s three informal sections — Old Ladera Upper Ladera and Lower Ladera — properties generally fall between $1 million and $2 million The Midcentury aesthetic extends beyond the homes eatery that appeared in “Pulp Fiction,” adds Googie architectural style to the area “People here are passionate about the neighborhood regularly hosts events and works hard to make sure it maintains its identity,” Johnson said the median sales price for single-family homes in May was $1.092 million The single public school in the Ladera Heights boundaries scored 749 on the 2013 Academic Performance Index Highlights in the area include Farragut Elementary and Culver City Middle Times staff writer Jack Flemming contributed to this report hotproperty@latimes.com California Business Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio How would you spend $1 million to improve it Mitchell has taken $1 million out of her discretionary funds and invited residents of the Ladera Heights and Florence-Firestone communities to come up with ideas for how to spend the money This is “real power over real money,” said Megan Castillo coalition coordinator for the Re-Imagine L.A which is partnering with Mitchell’s office to implement what’s known as a participatory budgeting process “The idea is to really build the muscle for co-governance,” she said of the project Ideas need to align with the county’s Care First models The Care First initiative emphasizes “investing in our most marginalized residents and communities and opportunities over incarceration for those who have long suffered from the injustices of a flawed legal system rooted in racial and economic disparities.” Ladera Heights and Florence-Firestone each have advisory committees appointed by Mitchell to oversee the process Each has created a broad priority list of the types of projects for which they would like to receive ideas They include green and safe infrastructure; housing and homelessness; economic opportunities; and traffic and transportation Among the ideas submitted to date: converting vacant lots and underused land into parks and community gardens and creating an urban tree planting program who sits on the advisory committee for Florence-Firestone said she’s thought a lot about the needs of street vendors in her community would focus on “economic development for street vendors to make sure they have the tools they need to scale their businesses.” Around 70,000 people live in the Florence-Firestone area which is an unincorporated community tucked above the 105 Freeway in South L.A Vides said the community is heavily immigrant with a large number of undocumented residents who need assistance Florence-Firestone is one of the most economically depressed areas of the county It has a household median income that is 28% below the county as a whole and nearly 20% of the residents live below the poverty line according to the L.A County Department of Public Health is a community of about 6,700 with about 7% of the residents living below the poverty line It sits adjacent to the 405 Freeway above Inglewood and is sometimes referred to as the “Black Beverly Hills.” "Our office purposefully chose two communities with distinctive differences for our participatory budgeting project," Lenee Richards "As the first County Supervisor to undertake this pilot our goal is to gather valuable data that will inform potential expansions to other unincorporated communities in our district." Vides said the project is a way to share power and respond more immediately to the needs of the community “I also think it builds trust” in elected officials Vides added that she would like the pilot project expanded countywide so that residents have a bigger and more direct say over county spending priorities Mitchell’s staff will review the project ideas and place budget estimates on them The advisory committees are expected to decide which project ideas will make the ballot for residents to vote on in the fall This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page nicknamed "Black Beverly Hills," success is common for African AmericansA local family shares their experience living in the area and their perceptions of success The Los Angeles hilltop neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills make up one of the most affluent predominantly African-American enclaves in the nation leading some to call it the "Black Beverly Hills." We explore this community and perceptions of Black success through the Burnett family.BALDWIN HILLS (KABC) -- Success is typical among the residents in the predominantly African-American neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills Many of the homes are valued upwards of $2 million leading some to call it the "Black Beverly Hills." But this label paints a distorted image of a community that's proud of its own history and identity "I'm pretty sure it wasn't somebody African American that labeled it," said Baldwin Hills resident Denise Burnett a former school principal and rising director at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA They didn't have a silver spoon in their mouth It wasn't given to them or inherited it a dentist who grew up in neighboring South Los Angeles This story is part of "Our America: Living While Black," a five-part ABC Owned Television Stations docuseries. Find all episodes on your streaming device, including FireTV, Roku, Apple TV and Android TV "We always knew that there were more affluent Black people that lived in the Baldwin Hills area So as kids we always wanted to be there," said Dr According to local real estate agent Roland Harris African Americans settled in the area because historically they were not allowed to purchase homes in other affluent areas LEARN MORE: Explore the Equity Report "It's just a really great community," said Harris a lot of times people would not sell to them in affluent neighborhoods A lot of successful African Americans chose this neighborhood because it's a very beautiful neighborhood "Our America": Living While Black - Racism and Inequality Resources This location served as a central meeting spot for LA’s African-American community If you buy something from an Eater link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics policy The news came as a surprise to the predominantly African-American community that frequented this particular store which Magic Johnson opened 20 years ago next to the Friday’s on Centinela This prime LA location was more than a place to get coffee it was a cultural gathering spot for a community Regulars lovingly referred to the Magic Johnson Starbucks as “Starblacks,” and was a place where mostly African-American faces gathered to openly discuss the arrest of Starbucks patrons It was commonplace to hear locals affectionately share details about family and a spokesperson suggested the company could “better serve more of the community by moving this store.” Earvin “Magic” Johnson opened this Starbucks location in 1998 which was the area’s first corporate coffee arrival Magic Johnson’s Starbucks will be impossible to replace Joseph Health has negotiated a lease for nearly 26,000 square feet at the Wateridge campus at 5100 Goldleaf Circle in Los Angeles’ Ladera Heights neighborhood The health care facility is scheduled to open in mid-2019 and will replace Providence’s currently clinic Wateridge is a 330,000-square-foot office campus sitting on 21 acres of land represented Providence in the lease negotiations “This location is outstanding for Providence as it satisfies their need to be in a premiere central population center,” Ehrlich said in a statement Learn how to describe the purpose of the image (opens in a new tab) Leave empty if the image is purely decorative Learn how to describe the purpose of the image (opens in a new tab). Leave empty if the image is purely decorative. LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media network. One day in the early 2000s, Professor Darnell Hunt was walking his dog in his picturesque Baldwin Vista neighborhood in South Los Angeles. “This car came up and was moving really slowly, like kind of checking out the front of the house. And this guy stuck his head out the window. He said, ‘Hey, I used to live there.’ And I looked at him and recognized him. It was Lenny Kravitz. I said, ‘Yeah, I know you did,’” Hunt recalls. “He goes, ‘Do you mind if I take a look around?’ And we invited him in and he hung out in our house for about an hour, just telling us all these stories about growing up in the house and the whole bit.” This has led neighborhoods in the Baldwin Hills — a collection of affluent wealthy and middle-class areas including Baldwin Hills Estates, Ladera Heights, Baldwin Vista, and especially View Park — to be known as “The Black Beverly Hills.” The rolling hills in South Los Angeles that now hosts these neighborhoods were once part of the Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera, eventually owned by the randy, wily 19th century L.A. pioneer Elias “Lucky” Baldwin. In the early 20th century, these lawless, uninhabited hills were best known for the rough and tumble oil derricks that punctured the land, and conflicts between various syndicates to control the oil fields. With its reputation as a dump site for a notorious murder, peat fires, and a narcotics ring meet-up place, the area appears to have had a wild side. However, this did not deter developers. During the boom time of the 1920s, they began to eye the hills, which offered panoramic views and perfect placement between Los Angeles proper, Santa Monica, and the South Bay. In 1927, the Los Angeles Times reported on the development of the new neighborhood of View Park: Some of the first homes in Baldwin Hills, which came to be known as View Park, consisted of nine- to 11-room homes in Spanish and English styles, purchased, according to developers, by “manufacturers, professors and financiers.” After the Olympics, all traces of the village were quickly removed, and more permanent structures came to dominate the Baldwin Hills. Developers, including the Los Angeles Investment Company and the Baldwin Hills Company, began to develop homes on the hill. So many doctors moved into the neighborhoods that it became known as “Pill Hill.” The completion of the towering 19-acre Baldwin Hills Reservoir in 1951 only accelerated development, with many young families, professors and business owners moving into the sprawling one-story ranch and modern homes proliferating in the hills. Laurie Coleman Kelson has fond memories of growing up in View Park and Baldwin Hills Vista in the 1950s and ‘60s. “Even the weather was so beautiful. I'm sure it still is, but we always had your prevailing afternoon wind where you really didn't need air conditioning,” she recalls. “Neighbors took care of neighbors, cared about one another.” The almost exclusively white neighborhoods in the Baldwin Hills slowly began to change in the 1950s, after the Supreme Court struck down the enforcement of racially restrictive covenants in 1948. This enabled prosperous Black families — forced to live in areas primarily surrounding Central Avenue — to move into neighborhoods with amenities and opportunities they had until recently been denied. “We first were in View Park and that was one of the first neighborhoods to become integrated. And that was in the early '50s,” Kelson recalls. “The first Black family moved into my street and it was the jazz pianist Art Tatum and his wife… And we as children thought this was fabulous. We’d sit on the curb and listen to him practice.” Soon, predatory real estate agents were convincing white homeowners it was time to leave the neighborhood before their property value plummeted due to their new Black neighbors. “Unfortunately, a lot of realtors made it their business to go around,” Kelson says. “And I remember my parents were sort of horrified by them saying, ‘Your house is not going to be worth much. We'll list it and we'll get you out of here soon.’” However, Kelson’s parents redoubled their commitment to the Baldwin Hills. In 1961 when she was 13, her family moved into a bigger home in Baldwin Hills Vista, with breathtaking views of the Baldwin Hills Dam. Though Kelson felt no tension at the multi-racial, demographically shifting Dorsey High School, there were some white Baldwin Hills neighbors who made their displeasure known. In a 1962 letter to the editor in the Los Angeles Times, a white resident in Baldwin Hills sniffed dismissively that Black people “wanted to be white.” The following week, L.A. resident Anne Thompson issued a passionate rebuttal, explaining that Black Angelenos of means were escaping neighborhoods where they faced lack of police protection, woefully unequal public services, and inadequate schools. “This my dear lady, is why we move into ‘white neighborhoods,’” she wrote. Black "mothers have the same aspirations for their offspring as Caucasian mothers — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — in the best possible environment, with the very best preparation for adult life possible.” That same year, the NAACP announced it was picketing the Baldwin Hills School after 15 Black children in the neighborhood were denied admission because the principal claimed they didn’t have “the necessary transfer forms." In the midst of this transition, tragedy struck. On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 14, 1963, the Baldwin Hills Dam burst, sending a wave of water cascading through the hills. Debris flowed into the celebrated Village Green community in the flatlands below. Sixty-four homes in the Baldwin Hills were destroyed, five people killed, and others injured. “The president had been assassinated in November. And then on Dec. 14, the dam broke. So, it was sort of like my little world of Baldwin, my world was just falling apart,” Kelson, whose family home survived, recalls. “People were devastated. Many homes gone, many flooded.” But the people of the Baldwin Hills built their neighborhoods back relatively quickly, recovering from the catastrophe. Hunt believes this tipping point was accelerated after the Watts uprising in 1965. “Watts, which was miles away, was evidently too close for comfort for a lot of the white people who were living in these areas, and they started moving further west,” he says. According to the Los Angeles Times, by 1971, 4,000 of View Park’s 5,795 residents had moved out of the neighborhood. David McNeill, longtime View Park resident, and his family moved to the neighborhood in the 1970s. “A lot of athletes were moving in and living there,” he recalls. “My father finished his master's degree in business administration, and they were on their way up the hill.” For McNeill it was an idyllic place to grow up. The abandoned Baldwin Hills Dam site (now part of the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area) was also a popular place for neighborhood kids. “We'd go, and that was awesome. You'd go there at night. It was just dead and creepy and huge and open space and you're like, ‘Wow,’” he recalls. Residents up the hill, many who sent their children to private schools, were part of numerous Black civic organizations. There were social clubs like The Links, which hosted the premiere Black debutante balls in the city, the leadership organization Jack and Jill, and fraternities like Alpha Phi Alpha. McNeill recalls numerous transplants from Louisiana, known as the “LA, LA” folks. Baldwin Hills was visited by tragedy yet again in July 1985, when a fire destroyed 47 homes in the neighborhood. In 1994, Darnell Hunt and his wife, both young professors starting their academic careers at USC, were in search of a family home. “My wife and I, we wanted to be near or in a Black community. We didn't want to be distant from a Black community,” he recalls. Many children, including David McNeill, who grew up in the neighborhood in the 1970s and ‘80s, came back to Baldwin Hills after college and young adulthood to raise their own families. According to the Los Angeles Times, in 2000, of the around 45,000 people who lived in Baldwin Hills, View Park, Windsor Hills and Ladera Heights, 76% were Black, 9% were Latino and 6% were white. But those living in the hills still battled racism and racist policies from recent decades. In 2001, neighborhood residents banded together to cancel plans for a power plant in the hills, which was seen by many as a form of environmental racism. For decades, economic racism has forced many residents of the Baldwin Hills to go west to shop and eat out. Residents hope the $2.1 billion Crenshaw-LAX Light Rail Project, which will bring high-quality transit to the area, will also bring new amenities and development to South L.A. There are also efforts to preserve the Black history of the Crenshaw District with Destination Crenshaw, projected to be a 1.1-mile outdoor museum running along the new Crenshaw line. This new focus on the area, along with rising housing prices, has led to a hot real estate market in the Baldwin Hills. “It is on fire. It's crazy on fire. I mean, you can't get in there for less than $1.2 million,” says realtor Katrina Manning, who has sold in the area for 18 years. “And I mean, when I talk about $1.2, I mean the houses that were built back in the '60s and the '70s with no work. I mean a lot of those houses still look like retro with the mirrors, carpet, and all of that stuff.” Manning has seen an increase in white buyers, many who have young families, leading to shifting demographics. Many Black residents are getting older and finding they can sell homes purchased for $20,000 decades ago for over $1 million. “Back during the day, a lot of affluent African Americans bought their homes there,” Manning says. “And now they're all old. And so, a lot of them are dying. And some of the kids... a lot of kids went back east to go to Howard University. And a lot of them didn't want to come back to California.” Manning points to the Baldwin Hills many positive attributes; its abundance of outdoor recreation, beautiful views, and nearness to SoFi Stadium and the Forum for its increasing popularity. Hunt, who now lives in Baldwin Hill’s Estates, echoes many of the same points, adding: But the Baldwin Hills, like much of South Los Angeles, face a new challenge, as more and more non-Black residents move into the area. David McNeill has noticed the shift in his neighborhood over the past few years. “I don't see the teenage kids. I see a lot of babies. Most of the babies are the new generation of Baldwin Hills residents. Just don't look like me. So, I sit in my window watching, drinking coffee. “People want to call it gentrification,” he says. “That's just a lightning word that people like to use, whether it's media or Facebook. It's like pick a word that's going to get people excited. I call it the G word, but it's not. There's no gentrification happening. It's always been a beautiful neighborhood with upper class people making lots of good money and sending their kids to private school. How do you gentrify a neighborhood like that?” Gina Fields, the Chair of the Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Council, worries that the area’s Black Angelenos who can live within a majority Black community has shrunk. As a sociologist, Hunt sees the legacy of Baldwin Hills as one that is continuing to evolve. “You have to strike a balance between creating opportunities for development in the area and at the same time protecting smaller businesses that can't compete on equal footing for rent and so forth. So, I think that's kind of the lesson. I mean, for me, it could be a very interesting case study in whether or not gentrification, which is inevitable in this region, can proceed in a way that doesn't destroy the fabric of the community.” For longtime resident David McNeill, the Baldwin Hills are simply home — a place where he says he still rides his bike and walks in his neighborhood on warm summer evenings “hearing the sounds and smelling the food that’s cooking in the kitchens.” While sitting on a park bench in the hills, McNeill explains contentedly, "I can see myself. This is my L.A. … My little neighborhood.” Stefan Becker told The Times that an animal shelter had called to inform him that his nearly 3-year-old dog had been handed over to it. “It’s our Bruno. We got him safe and sound!” he said in a text message. Becker said he was walking Bruno around 5:45 a.m. Wednesday when he was confronted in the 6400 block of Wooster Avenue by a group of three or four men who exited a silver Toyota Camry. The men, who were wearing hoodies, gloves and ski masks, beat Becker and took his dog, he said. Trish Bauer and her family officially adopted a 12-year-old German shepherd named Cooper exactly a year after she lost her baby, Millie, to a stillborn birth. One man yelled, “Give me the f—ing dog!” Becker said. Becker said a man punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Bruno ran away, and one or two men began kicking Becker in the torso, he said, breaking two of his ribs. A man ran after Bruno and picked him up as the dog “screamed and yelled,” according to Becker. The men got into the Camry and drove away, he said. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has not made any arrests in the case. Southern California is seeing a rash of parrot thefts The pricey feathered companions have been stolen from pet stores The robbery was the latest in a string of French bulldog thefts in Los Angeles over the last few years. In 2021, Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs were stolen after thieves shot her dogwalker in Hollywood. Noah Goldberg covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked on its breaking news team and has also written an array of offbeat enterprise stories. Before joining The Times in 2022, Goldberg worked in New York City as the Brooklyn courts reporter for the New York Daily News and as the criminal justice reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle. He graduated from Vassar College. Climate & Environment The details: The rules would only apply in unincorporated areas of L.A. County, such as East Los Angeles, Altadena and Ladera Heights. The background: Proponents of regulating activity on platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo say the rules will clamp down on disruptive “party homes” and put them back on the market for L.A. residents struggling to find affordable housing. But some short-term rental hosts have argued the proposed rules are too strict, potentially preventing homeowners from earning extra income by renting out backyard granny flats. What’s next: The rules still need a subsequent vote before taking effect. If ultimately passed, they would take effect 180 days after a final vote from the Board of Supervisors. Airbnb hosts and other short term rental owners in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County could soon be barred from renting out properties they don’t live in under proposed rules advanced by the Board of Supervisors. The board voted unanimously Tuesday to craft a new ordinance regulating short-term rentals. The decision comes after years of debate and research by the board. The county regulations were first proposed back in 2019. Proponents of regulating activity on platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo say the rules will put homes back on the market for L.A. residents increasingly struggling to find affordable housing. During Tuesday’s lengthy and at times contentious public hearing, many hosts said the proposed rules are too strict. Some homeowners said they would be prevented from earning income by renting out backyard granny flats, even while they’re living in the main house. Others said they pride themselves on providing affordable accommodations to travelers. Topanga resident Nonie Shore said visitors rent her property to enjoy the beauty of the Santa Monica mountains. This area, she said, “is a tourist destination for many who cannot afford a decent hotel room… Homeowners in Topanga should be able to rent out their structures safely.” LAist reached out to Airbnb and Vrbo for comment, but did not immediately hear back. Read a breakdown of how legal listings work in the city of L.A., and what’s known about how the law is — and isn’t — being enforced. The proposed regulations would require hosts to register with the county every year. Hosts would only be allowed to list their primary residence. Renting out investment properties or second homes would be prohibited. Under the original draft of the rules, hosts would also be prevented from renting out accessory dwelling units on their property. On Tuesday, supervisors voted to advance an amendment that would allow hosts to rent out a primary residence to guests while they stay in the secondary unit. The proposed rules would allow hosts to rent their homes for up to 90 nights per year “unhosted,” meaning while they are not physically present in the home. Beyond that limit, they would be required to be on site during their guests’ stays. During Tuesday’s hearing, the supervisors debated whether a proposed annual registration fee of $914 was too expensive for lower-income homeowners hoping to earn extra income renting out their homes. They said they plan to further discuss options in subsequent votes for mitigating the cost to certain homeowners. Other public commenters urged the Board of Supervisors to ease or provide exceptions to the proposed regulations, saying they rely on short-term rental income. “Many elderly and low-income people rent a small space in their homes in order to pay the increasing costs of living, insurance, taxes, etc.,” Susanna Dadd submitted in a written public comment. In an interview with LAist, Luz Loza said short-term rentals have drastically changed her neighborhood. Loza grew up in the hilly unincorporated area of City Terrace, a largely working class Latino neighborhood famous for its views of the downtown L.A. skyline. She now owns the home where she was raised. “We knew everybody around here. Everybody was a homeowner,” Loza said. “Now, we don't know practically anybody that lives around here.” Loza said her home is now surrounded by short-term rentals. A number of those properties are owned by the same person, Loza said, who is rarely on site to address problems with disruptive guests. “We have so many people that come in and out of this place, we feel our safety is at risk,” Loza said. “My grandson experiences seeing them use drugs, bathing nude… They just don't take into consideration that we have to get up and work early.” Tourists are flocking to City Terrace to enjoy the neighborhood’s scenic vistas, Loza said, but young adults hoping to maintain their roots in the neighborhood can’t find affordable homes. “A lot of people like this place. We have such a beautiful view,” Loza said. City Terrace residents “want to invest and live in this area, but there's nothing available for them.” The county’s proposed rules would not be the first of their kind in the L.A. area. The city of Los Angeles began enforcing its own home-sharing ordinance in 2019. Under those rules, hosts can be fined $500 for each day they post a listing that breaks the law, or up to $2,000 per day if they rent units for more than 120 days per year without the city’s permission. Proponents of the city’s rules say corporate hosts returned thousands of rent-controlled apartments to L.A.’s long-term housing stock after the regulations took effect. But they also admit enforcement has been spotty, and illegal short-term rental activity remains common. If ultimately passed, the county’s rules would take effect 180 days after a final vote by the Board of Supervisors. Print A Ladera Heights home once owned by Los Angeles Lakers great Jerry West is on the market for about $1.5 million The Westside neighborhood has history when it comes to star athletes boxer Ken Norton and Olympic gold-medalist Peter Vidmar are among those who have called the area home Former Lakers player and coach Byron Scott is another former resident sits on about a quarter of an acre and has a swimming pool The 3,212 square feet of living space includes a living room with fireplace A wood-paneled den has another fireplace and a wet bar West sold the house more than a decade ago for about $750,000 Yvonne Rose-Jackson of Making a Difference holds the listing making 14 all-star teams and winning an NBA title in 1972 he twice won executive of the year honors and was part of six championship teams He currently works in the Golden State Warriors’ front office neal.leitereg@latimes.com Twitter: @NJLeitereg Suzanne Somers puts her desert oasis back up for sale at $14.5 million Vintage Craftsman interiors get an update in Pasadena Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen sells his offbeat spot in Calabasas Former Angel C.J. Wilson seeks $2.7 million for Corona del Mar home Former Los Angeles Times reporter Neal J. Leitereg covered celebrity real estate for the Business section. He graduated from Arizona State and covered real estate news for Realtor.com before joining The Times. When Natalie Myers began looking for a new home in Los Angeles for herself and her family, the interior designer (and 2015 Curbed Young Gun) knew what she wanted, where she wanted it, and wasn’t going to be convinced otherwise. Myers had her sights set on finding a low-slung midcentury home that she could make all her own. She found just such a place in the tight-knit neighborhood of Ladera Heights. Located in LA’s highly sought-after Westside, Ladera Heights sits snugly between Culver City and Baldwin Hills, and is packed with the kind of coveted midcentury modern homes that dot Los Angeles. A somewhat newer neighborhood established in the late 1940s, with new homes built after the ’70s, Ladera Heights is known for having a strong sense of community and low housing stock, as homeowners in the area tend to stick around. For Myers, the homes there spoke to her in the way much of California always has, even though she spent most of her childhood in New York. At 3,000 square feet, the home, complete with a double-sided lava-stone fireplace, a master suite with its own enclosed garden, and a garage walled in with gorgeous breeze blocks—was in ailing condition. But that’s just what Myers wanted: With her design skills, she says, she knew she could take something from okay to great on a lean budget. While Myers noted that several other homeowners in the neighborhood took to renovating room-by-room, she decided she would handle her family’s renovation in one fell swoop— while they lived in the house. They moved in on Memorial Day 2017, and by October the renovation was completed. The renovation produced a blank slate onto which Myers could truly get to work executing her design vision. Myers pulled together vintage and antique furnishings she has collected over time, her sizable collection of ever-rotating rugs and artwork, and added new pieces to meld the home’s midcentury bones with more contemporary, California-chic vibes. A central feature of the living space is that large lava-stone fireplace, and natural elements can be seen throughout the home, from furnishings to plants to textiles. Myers has also taken matters into her own hands when the right kind of furniture hasn’t presented itself. When she couldn’t find the simple daybed she was hoping for, for example, she designed it and had it built, added a small mattress, and then heaped pillows and blankets on top. The kids love it. Though Myers acknowledges it may sound a little hokey, she says it feels like her home was meant for her and her family, and that she can’t ever imagine selling it. “As a designer, it’s been a privilege to nurse this house back to health and give it a happy family to grow with for the next few decades,” she says wistfully. “I feel absurdly connected to it in a way I haven’t to other places I’ve lived.” Print A man involved in a dispute at a Ladera Heights gym was shot and killed by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Tuesday night as he swung an electric razor over his head whose identity was withheld pending notification of his family was shot at least once in the upper torso after he pulled the device from his backpack and swung it by a cord while advancing toward deputies He was pronounced dead at an area hospital a short time later Deputies from the sheriff’s Marina del Rey station were called to a 24-Hour Fitness in the 5000 block of West Slauson Avenue twice on Tuesday night according to a news release issued by the Sheriff’s Department managers at the gym called deputies because the man was “acting erratic” and “being vulgar toward some women” who were working out but deputies were able to convince him to walk away Managers at the gym told the man his membership would be suspended the man returned and resumed berating other customers Deputies were again called to the area and confronted the man in the parking lot where he began screaming and running around before making an aggressive motion toward a deputy Deputies attempted to subdue the man with a Taser The man then began to walk away before producing what deputies described as a “large item with some metal on it” from his backpack and the man began to swing the object over his head from a cord A deputy opened fire as the man continued to advance on him which was described as a “tethered weapon” in an earlier news release was actually an electric razor attached to an electrical cord james.queally@latimes.com Follow @JamesQueallyLAT for crime and police news in California. 10 a.m.: This story was updated with additional information from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. This article was originally published at 6 a.m. James Queally writes about crime and policing in Southern California, where he currently covers Los Angeles County’s criminal courts, the district attorney’s office and juvenile justice issues for the Los Angeles Times. SDSU sustainability sophomore Azure Ciel Fisher is digging into how structural racism impacts health Undergrad Research Spotlight: This is part of a series on undergraduate research opportunities at SDSU and the programs that help support a future pipeline of scientists from diverse and underrepresented groups. Stories in this series include a microbiology researcher and an engineering researcher Inspired by experiences growing up in Los Angeles, pre-health sustainability sophomore Azure ‘Ciel’ Fisher is committed to improving health and health care among Black Americans. As a Henrietta Goodwin Scholar her freshman year at San Diego State University Fisher received academic support and was inspired to begin her own research in an effort to bring real change to her community.  one of the most established Black communities in Los Angeles County The unincorporated area has been home to a large number of oil rigs for years and research is now being done to better understand the health disparities that may stem from drilling near the community’s homes at least one person in almost every household on her street has cancer Fisher herself lost two family members to cancer and both times families were left in the dark about the illness These experiences inspired Fisher to dig deeper into how structural racism is impacting health care Fisher’s interest in the topic grew when she learned about environmental racism in an American Indian history class She used this topic for a persuasive essay in her Rhetoric and Writing Studies 200 class last year choosing the topic of health care disparities for ethnic minorities during the pandemic as well as future effects of this issue Pursuing additional research, she contacted the Black Resource Center (BRC) on campus, where she began working with Tonika Green, now BRC interim director; Rachael Stewart, administrative support coordinator in educational leadership, and Tanis Starck, director of the Office of Intercultural Relations. Fisher, Green, Stewart and Starck are now working toward securing pathways to continue this research with a goal to one day publish Fisher’s work, which Fisher hopes to carry into graduate school one day. “Within the Henrietta Goodwin Scholars program, we encourage the scholars to be servant-leaders,” Green said. “Azure’s research embodies this and everything she stands for challenges the system to promote equity and humanity.”   Fisher was selected as a presenter for the BRC’s inaugural Black Minds Matter Research Symposium.  The SDSU News Team spoke to Fisher about her research and future plans.  Tell us about your current research.   How can you incorporate this into the real world?    I want to show how things are equal on paper, but not structurally through the system of America. It’s hard to see, it’s not apparent. I think we need proper education on structural racism and how it deeply impacts both the Black community and other minority groups greatly. I want it to educate how that can be possible. What does it mean to be getting the opportunity to do this type of research as an undergrad?   I feel extremely fortunate to have this opportunity. Many people say that undergraduate research isn’t common or publishable. I felt very grateful that the Black Resource Center was able to connect me with Dr. Rachael Stewart, who specifically helped me curate my ideas. I never thought I would be able to conduct research on my own.  I want to get a master’s in legal studies and environmental science. I’d like to continue this type of research along the lines of Black health and how it is being affected negatively. I want to focus on environmental science, helping health and continuing Black research health, and using a master’s in legal studies to help understand the policies within environmental science health. There are several violations in Ladera Heights, and I want to help fight that.  Print The mother of a man who was shot and killed in March during an encounter with Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies has sued the county and the Sheriff’s Department saying that deputies lacked proper training and used unnecessary force against her son The civil rights lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S It follows another federal lawsuit filed by the children of Dennis “Todd” Rogers who was shot by deputies the night of March 7 outside a 24 Hour Fitness gym in Ladera Heights said that Rogers had been asked to leave the gym but returned a few hours later and was shot and killed by one or more deputies The lawsuit alleges that deputies attempted to shock Rogers with stun guns and that Rogers was “unarmed and made no offensive moves towards the deputies when they killed him.” “The sheriff’s deputies did not handle this situation in the proper way and as a result Todd is dead,” Morris said Rogers graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in accounting and finance and he moved to Los Angeles from Houston around November 2015 to pursue a career in acting told reporters at a news conference outside the federal courthouse downtown that Rogers had called her every day Williams recalled that after she saw an audition video in which he played the role of a villain “You’re not going to make it — you’re smiling too much.” She said Monday that at the time of the incident Rogers was off his medication “There wasn’t any other way they could have subdued him Sheriff’s officials said that Rogers was shot after he pulled metal electric hair clippers out of his backpack and swung them by a cord while advancing toward a deputy Joe Mendoza told The Times in March that managers at the gym first called deputies because Rogers was “acting erratic” and “being vulgar towards some women” who were exercising He said that when deputies were called to the scene a second time after Rogers returned to the gym where he was screaming and behaving wildly Deputies unsuccessfully tried to subdue him twice with a Taser and a deputy opened fire as Rogers advanced with the clippers “He came within inches of striking the deputy swinging the clippers hard and fast,” Mendoza said “We know that the deputies have alleged he had some kind of electric scissors,” he said He was still shot and killed without justification.” The Sheriff’s Department said Monday that it would not comment on pending litigation but released a statement saying that deputies at the time had requested help from a Mental Evaluation Team which consists of a deputy and a mental health clinician “We currently have 10 MET teams countywide and are waiting on additional funding to increase staffing as part of a holistic plan to train deputies in crisis intervention and provide 24/7 triage and support for critical incidents involving individuals suffering from mental illness,” the statement said County Inspector General Max Huntsman said the Sheriff’s Department’s mental evaluation teams don’t always arrive at a scene in time “We have such a small number that they can only use them for resolving issues after the person has been taken into custody,” he said in an interview they could also assist the Sheriff’s Department in that initial contact with people who are potentially mentally ill and help them avoid incidents.” the department has made “a great deal of progress” in addressing people who have mental illness with sheriff’s deputies undergoing crisis intervention training He said that the number of fatal civilian shootings has been reduced substantially with only four so far this year compared with 81 in the previous five years there isn’t a real desire to harm or it can be managed a bit more than with a person who is just a criminal,” Huntsman said Williams described seeing a video that captured parts of the incident “You could have talked him out of anything.… If they can just get somebody there to talk to him he’ll calm down.” said the family simply wants to know what happened that night “I think the one question that is unanswered is what did he do that was so significant that you had to take his life,” she said leila.miller@latimes.com @leilamillersays Man posing as Uber driver arrested in Beverly Hills sex assault, police searching for more victims Gas utility resumes injections at Aliso Canyon despite opposition from county, residents Durst friend admits getting guidance from husband before backtracking on testimony LOS ANGELES – You might not think the closing of one Starbucks with two others literally only hundreds of feet away would make much of a difference high-income Ladera Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles this Starbucks leaving is about more than having to get coffee somewhere else “It hurts us because we’ve been patronizing them for 20 years,“ said Silas Braxton who works at nearby restaurant The Serving Spoon and is part of a group of regulars who play dominoes at the Ladera Starbucks every day “It’s like they’re plucking the heart out of our community.” This location served its last latte on Sunday Since the Ladera Heights Starbucks opened in partnership with Magic Johnson in 1998 you'd find much the same scene among the tables dotted with cups of java and laptops: In the mornings an overflowing table of elder gentlemen by the window energetically debating the hot topics of the day with an intimate round of two-person Uno across the way friendly trash-talkers slapping the timers in heated games of speed chess lined up at the long table and the sound of “bones” or dominoes hitting the tables on the patio amid the laughs and jibes passed around the circle of players another regular who can usually be found holding court immersed in a game of speed chess began frequenting this location while living in neighboring Inglewood 15 years ago but now drives an hour from the South Bay region of Los Angeles County every day He isn’t ready to believe the place is really closing “They haven’t posted any signs They haven't said thank you to the community Why not explain what’s happening and tell us you appreciate us Because it IS our business,”  Anthony said More: Starbucks Happy Hour returns Friday with buy-one-get-one free espresso drinks More: Why California is home to straw bans and mandated meatless Mondays — and Iowa isn't 64 calls the loss “devastating,” adding “there aren’t many spaces for black men and women to come together and to network.” She's been coming to this location since the day it opened and said she's benefited immensely from the connections she’s made over the years “Coming here has been great for my business I meet patients here because people are always referring them to me There’s a camaraderie here – it’s not just a community originally opened by Urban Coffee Opportunities a 50-50 partnership between  Starbucks Coffee Company and Magic Johnson’s Johnson Development Corporation landed in the Ladera Center shopping plaza when the neighborhood was a virtual coffee desert Johnson sold his 50 percent stake of Urban Coffee Opportunities to Starbucks making the coffee giant the sole owner of the more than 100 stores UCO had opened in mostly underserved communities There is a Starbucks location inside of the Ralph’s grocery store in the same plaza and a drive-thru location across the street although regulars here are quick to point out that neither of those locations is conducive to socializing Starbucks spokesperson Reggie Borges told USA TODAY with three locations in such proximity the company feels they could better serve more of the community by moving this store “We know that store is a special place where connections are made We are actively looking for a new location to put a store up in that same Ladera neighborhood to replace it,” Borges said the closing of this location may present an opportunity for several new independent coffee shops in the area to percolate as the new center of the community The local coffee landscape “I often ask myself ‘where did people go before coffee shops?,’ ” said Anthony Jolly which opened earlier this year in nearby Leimert Park “As this community changes,” Jolly said referring to the shifting demographics in South L.A. which is seeing an influx of young professionals of all races. “I wanted to come in and create a space where people of color can come in and collaborate.” One leg up places such as Hot and Cool have over big chains is flexibility “I had to rearrange my entire business plan to fit Leimert Park so I extended my menu to include more healthy food options and vegan options A lot of people in the community prefer tea to coffee so I added more tea to my menu,” said Jolly whose most popular items include a honey latte and raspberry hibiscus iced tea Tara King, marketing manager for Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen on Slauson Avenue in neighboring Windsor Hills “facilitating face-to-face conversation and connectivity” is part of Hilltop’s mission Hilltop staff also noticed there was a real need for healthy food options in the area and expanded their menu which includes an acai bowl and a kale salad “We are attuned to what the local community is really asking for and what the culture is really like There are things we’ve done to modify because we’re paying attention to what the community is saying Sip & Sonder already a burgeoning event space in nearby Inglewood will open its full cafe before the end of the year Co-owner Amanda-Jane Thomas emphasizes the importance of spaces that feel welcoming “Coffee shops are often signs of gentrification or that an area is changing when I saw a coffee shop opening up in a community our philosophy is all about creating a space for the community.” For the Ladera Starbucks crowd hoping to congregate to a new coffee shop a 58-year-old retiree who has been a fixture at the Starbucks since moving to the neighborhood from Orange County 12 years ago said We’re going to vet other coffee shops We’re going to see who accepts us.” More: This couple endured a nightmare Airbnb experience in Los Angeles More: Tesla CEO Elon Musk touts new Model 3, but it's a bit pricier than the one many expected Ladera Center is a skilled nursing facility in Albuquerque with a history of neglect and abuse Nursing home residents have a right to feel safe and receive quality care If your beloved family member has experienced nursing home abuse at Ladera Center Levin & Perconti can get the justice your loved one deserves A nursing home is legally obligated to provide a safe hospitable environment where residents can rely on consistent quality care When a nursing home fails to honor its obligations a resident’s quality of life may be severely compromised The Albuquerque nursing home abuse attorneys at Levin & Perconti hold nursing homes accountable for allowing their residents to be harmed Ladera Center is a 120-bed skilled nursing facility located at: Residents at Ladera Center have access to a garden courtyard area and are allowed to have pets Ladera Center offers the following services: Ladera Center is owned by Genesis HealthCare one of the largest for-profit nursing home providers in the United States which owns hundreds of facilities across the nation Genesis HealthCare has a reputation for understaffing nursing homes and has been named in dozens of lawsuits throughout the country for nursing home abuse and neglect Eleven cases have been filed against Ladera Center In 2017, the United States Justice Department referred to Genesis HealthCare as an “unscrupulous provider.” This characterization came after Genesis HealthCare agreed to pay $53.6 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit after billing Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary services and for “grossly substandard care.” According to the Nursing Home Database Ladera Center has a ranking of number 11 out of 17 nursing facilities within a 10-mile radius and 14 out of 21 facilities within a 25-mile radius During a complaint inspection on May 5, 2022, Medicare found that Ladera Center failed to protect two residents from sexual abuse when an activities assistant sexually assaulted them The employee had been consuming drugs and alcohol during her shift. While she was under the influence, she entered the room of two traumatic brain injury patients and allowed them to see and touch her breasts The facility’s social worker caught her in the act and had to remove her from the patients’ room During the complaint inspection on December 10, 2021 the Medicare inspector discovered a severe case of neglect that may have permanently harmed a resident The resident’s daughter visited her at 10:30 in the morning on the day in question and learned that her mother had been unable to complete physical therapy due to feeling dizzy and weak The therapist said it was unusual for the resident A nurse assessed the mother and told the daughter she was okay This change in the patient’s condition was not reported to a physician the daughter returned and observed that her mother’s speech was slurred and she had left-side weakness and numbness The doctor ordered the patient to be assessed at the hospital resulting in permanent left-side weakness and a new permanent disability The nursing home might have never noticed the stroke were it not for the daughter’s intervention The permanent disability could have been prevented if nursing staff had promptly notified the physician of the patient’s symptoms Ladera Center has had 51 inspections since 2004 Nursing homes are typically inspected once annually They are inspected more frequently if Medicare receives complaints or if the facility has a history of deficiencies Ladera Center was fined $182,182 in 2022 and $49,845 in 2021 for deficiencies and Medicare has denied payment twice in the last three years During the last 12 months, Ladera Center has been cited for 35 deficiencies This is substantially higher than the national average of 8.4 and the state average of 15.5 Ladera Center has the red-hand designation assigned to its Medicare.gov profile to signify that the facility has been cited for abuse During the June 1, 2022, inspection the health inspector found that Ladera Center has routinely failed to provide prompt courteous assistance and a reasonable standard of care The inspector learned that staff do not provide residents with regular showers following their preferences Resident interviews and records checks revealed residents only receive 1 to 2 showers per month One resident reported that the nurses become agitated when she requests a bath or shower Ladera Center has a resident council that is meant to provide a collective voice for the residents when they have grievances or requests the inspection revealed that the facility has failed to address the following grievances filed by the resident council: Inspectors also observed poor housekeeping and unsanitary conditions concerning a patient’s toilet The inspector observed visible feces that did not move when the toilet was flushed The resident complained that the room smelled bad because the housekeeper regularly failed to remove the toilet seat adapter during cleaning The inspector also found the following deficiencies during this inspection: In addition to the aforementioned sexual assaults inspectors found the following deficiencies during the May 5 Patients at Ladera receive similar nursing staff hours of care as the state and national averages except for lower hours of care by registered nurses (RNs) who have more training than other nursing staff patients receive an average of 40 minutes of RN care per day but patients at Ladera Center receive an average of just 23 minutes per day patients nationwide receive 27 minutes of RN care per day but Ladera Center residents receive just 8 minutes per day Ladera Center has a significantly higher turnover rate than the state and national averages High staff turnover can disrupt the continuity of care and increase the risk of poor staff training It also indicates that workers are undercompensated or overworked leading to frustration that can negatively impact patients Medicare’s overall quality rating for Ladera Center is below average at 2 stars Medicare has given Ladera Center a 1-star rating for care quality for short-stay patients When compared with state and national averages: Medicare’s rating for Ladera Center’s long-term care quality is 4 stars Medicare has identified some areas of concern When compared with the state and national averages: If you suspect your family member has experienced abuse at Ladera Center, you can report it to the New Mexico Health Facility Complaints Hotline by calling 1-800-752-8649 The New Mexico Department of Health Improvement will notify Ladera Center and the facility will have five days to investigate and file a follow-up report You can also report the abuse to the New Mexico long-term care ombudsman by calling 1-866-451-2901 A long-term care ombudsman will investigate the abuse If you believe your loved one is in danger, call 911. You can also file a police report if you believe a crime has been committed It may be necessary to remove your family member from the facility If your loved one has been harmed emotionally or physically while under the care of the Ladera Center contact an Albuquerque nursing home abuse lawyer The Albuquerque nursing home abuse lawyers at Levin & Perconti have a proven track record of successfully standing up to nursing home companies and forcing them to take responsibility for harming their patients. Below are just a few examples of our nursing home case results: Levin & Perconti is one of the most highly respected nursing home abuse law firms in the country and we are proud to protect the rights of people who have been injured due to systemic flaws and corporations choosing profits over people We get results because we refuse to give up until we get justice for our clients If your loved one has been mistreated or neglected at Ladera Center, a nursing home abuse lawyer at Levin & Perconti can help. Contact us today for a free consultation on behalf of an 85-year-old woman injured in a nursing home when her medications were mismanaged for the estate of a 67-year-old man who died from complications related to a fall for a 59-year-old resident who developed multiple painful and infected bedsores which took four years to heal the campaign to defend the state’s environmental protections is starting to resemble a Hollywood blockbuster Aggressive and impactful reporting on climate change, the environment, health and science. Although Newsom signed the measure into law in 2022, California’s oil industry spent around $20 million to collect enough signatures to put the law on the November ballot. However, the fossil fuel interest groups have been challenged by a well-funded political committee whose biggest sponsors include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia and a coalition of environmental groups. As a part of their counteroffensive, they enlisted Schwarzenegger and Fonda, two longtime opponents of oil drilling, for a news conference at a Ladera Heights soccer field that neighbors the Inglewood Oil Field — the nation’s largest urban drill site. “They’re spending millions and millions of dollars because they want to tell the California people that it is safe to drill next to a house,” Schwarzenegger said as pumpjacks slowly bobbed behind him. “They’re coming back with the same trick and the same dialog. There will be no difference. They will be terminated again,” he continued, referencing his famed “Terminator” movie franchise. combining two of the state’s largest oil producers The oil industry has argued that less domestic oil production will result in more imported petroleum and higher emissions from shipping “Senate Bill 1137 doesn’t just prevent new wells It shuts down existing wells since maintenance is not allowed,” said Rock Zierman CEO of the California Independent Petroleum Assn “That means we will import more from the Saudi royal family instead of using local energy produced by California workers.” The oil drilling referendum has evolved into one of the most expensive ballot measures of the 2024 general election so far, according to state election data There are more than 100,000 unplugged oil and gas wells across California which are known to release cancer-causing chemicals and planet-warming methane Around 30,000 of these wells are within 3,200 feet of sensitive sites according to the California Department of Conservation That includes the homes of about 2.7 million Californians “Oil companies call the frontline communities ‘sacrifice zones,’ ” said Fonda who has launched her own political action committee to oust fossil fuel supporters from public office “We have to prove to them that we will not tolerate so many Californians to be considered sacrificeable.” Gavin Newsom at Friday’s event in Ladera Heights (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Environmental activist Nalleli Cobo who grew up within 30 feet of oil wells in South Los Angeles said she has experienced the health effects firsthand she has suffered nosebleeds so severe she has to sleep in a chair to avoid choking at night “Clean air is a basic and fundamental human right that has been denied to us,” Cobo said at Friday’s event “The oil industry has no place in our backyards Let us prove to the oil industry that they do not have that power.” Newsom emphasized the importance of transitioning away from fossil fuels to meet the state’s lofty climate goals and stave off the worst effects of warming “Let’s not mince words: The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis Newsom’s remarks are his latest provocation against the state’s oil producers. He has previously said he supports ending oil extraction by 2045 the year state officials hope the state will have eliminated its carbon footprint Newsom said the fight to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases is bipartisan noting President Nixon’s formation of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency and former California Gov Ronald Reagan’s creation of the California Air Resources Board Newsom said some Californians have already witnessed the devastating effects of global warming, underscoring the need for action. “There’s no Democratic, no Republican thermometer,” Newsom said. “There’s just reality.” “You have to believe your own eyes,” he added. “This planet is heating up. It’s choking up, it’s burning up. We have simultaneous droughts and rain bombs happening over and over and over again. Lifestyles, places, traditions being completely eliminated.” After enduring rancid landfill odors for roughly a year, some Santa Clarita Valley residents have reached their breaking point. Tony Briscoe is an environmental reporter with the Los Angeles Times. His coverage focuses on the intersection of air quality and environmental health. Prior to joining The Times, Briscoe was an investigative reporter for ProPublica in Chicago and an environmental beat reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More LOS ANGELES — An alarming spate of retail thefts, or “smash and grabs,” have plagued the Los Angeles area over the past month. One of the most recent occurred at a Macy’s in Sherman Oaks.  Daphne Bradford, a lifelong Los Angeles resident who is also running for LA County Supervisor in District 2, came back to find her catalytic convert had been stolen during a short shopping trip to her local grocery store in Ladera Heights — the same plaza where a Bath and Body Works had reported several incidents of petty theft.  Despite the high-profile incidents, the LAPD has reported a drop in robberies and burglaries this year while the sheriff’s department that patrols where the Ladera Center is located has reported an uptick. Daphne said statistics aren’t what’s important. “This is something about us as a community and residents and constituents and people versus some stats. You have to do something about it,” she said. Bradford is hosting the first of a series of public safety summits at the Ladera Center to help law enforcement connect with business owners to create solutions.  The summit will be on Sunday, Aug. 27 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ladera Shopping Center. The home, dating to 1963, has maple wood floors, a step-down living room and walls of windows that take in garden views. The kitchen, equipped with marble countertops and custom cabinetry, opens to the family and dining rooms. There are seven bedrooms and four bathrooms in more than 4,400 square feet of space. Outside, grounds of more than a third of an acre have a swimming pool, a spa and a putting green. Lush landscaping completes the setting. The property previously changed hands three years ago for $1.9 million, public records show. Eric Yetter of PLG Estates was the listing agent. Ikem Chukumerije of Westside Premier Estates represented the buyer, according to the Multiple Listing Service. Penny, 45, has previous television credits that include “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Happy Endings” and “Girlfriends.” Last year, he signed a two-year overall deal with HBO to write, produce and direct comedy and drama projects for television. Print Arron Afflalo of the Orlando Magic won’t be spending the offseason in Ladera Heights The veteran guard-forward this week sold his home in the neighborhood for $1.9 million five-bedroom house had been listed since February at $2.295 million the contemporary-style house was previously owned by WNBA great Lisa Leslie It sits on a corner lot with a fenced swimming pool The multi-level floor plan includes a sunken living room and there’s a fireplace in the dining room Afflalo bought the roughly 5,400-square-foot house from Leslie six years ago for $1.27 million Marina Steele of Nelson Shelton Real Estate ERA Powered was the listing agent Robin Dahlstrom of RE/MAX Estate Properties represented the buyer this week wrapped up his 11th season in the NBA The former UCLA Bruins standout has career averages of 10.8 points and 2.9 rebounds while playing for thee Pistons After signing a one-year deal with Orlando for the 2017-18 season Twitter: @LATHotProperty Scott Disick expands his keep in Hidden Hills Basketball’s Paul Westphal lists home in his birthplace of Torrance Actor Steven Weber is ready to give up his spot in Malibu’s Paradise Cove What $1.4 million buys right now in three L.A. neighborhoods KTLA A suspect has been arrested in a Ladera Heights house party shooting that killed a middle school sports coach gathered for a vigil outside the home where 25-year-old Jakeil Reynolds of Los Angeles was fatally shot Reynolds was killed after an argument with another person erupted into gunfire around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday outside the party on the 5800 block of Holt Avenue, according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department He suffered multiple wounds and died at the scene Deputies say they located the suspect’s vehicle in Compton early Thursday morning and the suspect was subsequently contacted and arrested on suspicion of murder Authorities are not releasing the name of the 29-year-old suspect they plan to present the case to the county District Attorney’s Office for filing consideration on Monday Reynolds had worked four years as a coach and athletic assistant at The City School He is survived by his parents and younger brother They described the killing as “senseless.” said several families approached her to express the positive impact her son had on their child’s life “He could turn your day from bad to good in two seconds,” she said said he’s been unable to sleep and has been “taking it one day at a time.” Elijah Reynolds said his older brother wanted to go to college ‘I want justice.’ I just want my brother back Paula Reynolds expressed hope in the arrest but said she still wishes those who were at the party approach investigators with any information they have “Come forward and say something,” she said A GoFundMe campaign set up to raise money for the Reynolds family had raised nearly $16,000 as of Friday night Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" A 29-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a middle school coach at a party in Ladera Heights last month also faces a count of possession of a firearm by a felon and allegations that the crimes were committed in association with a gang according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office The incident occurred on July 22 when the victim, Jakeil Reynolds, 25, was walking home from the party along the 5800 block of Holt Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department White allegedly confronted Reynolds and the two men argued before Reynolds was shot to death He is survived by his parents and younger brother. A GoFundMe campaign set up to raise money for the Reynolds family had raised nearly $35,000 as of Monday White is scheduled to be arraigned Monday and remains in custody on more than $4 million bail He faces a possible maximum sentence of 40 years to life in prison Man Charged with Killing Pedestrian Outside of #LaderaHeights House Party https://t.co/71c2Spy7IN @LASDHQ #LADAOffice Jakeil Ray Reynolds, a 25-year-old Black male, died Thursday, July 23, after being shot near the 5800 block of Holt Avenue in Ladera Heights according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records here are some answers to frequently asked questions: Profanity and personal attacks will not be approved He was everything to his brother and worked at The City School as a PE teacher 2020 at 3:05 pm PT.css-79elbk{position:relative;}Gaurav Sandhu will open the second location for Firehouse Subs in Los Angeles on Saturday (Courtesy of Firehouse Subs )LADERA HEIGHTS CA — A former information technology engineer is opening the second Firehouse Subs in Los Angeles on Saturday The fast-casual restaurant will open at Wateridge Center at Ladera Heights It's the 27th Firehouse Subs location in the greater Los Angeles area and it's under the ownership of Firehouse Subs franchisee Gaurav Sandhu It's the first Firehouse Subs for Gaurav and his business partner and father Gaurav is coming to the hospitality industry after a career in Information Technology He was an early fan of Firehouse Subs when it expanded to Southern California and has been looking forward to sharing the brand’s hot and hearty subs and dedication to public safety ever since “I am really passionate about being a part of Firehouse Subs and the opportunity to help grow the brand as I serve my community,” Gaurav said “This is a new and exciting chapter that I’ve been working towards for a long time and I couldn’t be more honored that I’m finally able to introduce Firehouse Subs to new guests in Ladera Heights.” The Los Angeles Firehouse Subs restaurant is open from 10 a.m People can order subs online through the Firehouse Subs app or website or by calling-in phone orders or takeout service at the counter inside Third-party delivery and in-house catering services are also offered to accommodate occasions of all sizes Firehouse Subs was founded by former firefighting brothers with restaurants styled to honor the founding family's fire and police service donated from fire departments Gaurav is dedicated to sharing the brand’s commitment to giving back through Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation which has granted more than $1.3 million in California A portion of every sale at any Firehouse Subs in the U.S allowing it to achieve its mission of providing life-saving equipment funding and education to first responders and public safety organizations across the country hand-painted mural by Chief Mural Artist Joe Puskas featuring a scenic overlook in Ladera Heights and local firefighting heroes Since the opening of the first Firehouse Subs in 1994 Puskas and his team have painted more than 1,190 murals from his studio at Firehouse Subs Headquarters in Jacksonville the Firehouse Subs founders established the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation with the mission of providing funding lifesaving equipment and educational opportunities to first responders and public safety organizations The 501(c)(3) Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation has granted more than $55 million to hometown heroes in 49 states Each restaurant recycles five-gallon pickle buckets available to guests for a $3 donation to the Foundation Donation canisters on register counters explain the nonprofit’s mission and collect spare change while the Round Up Program allows guests to “round up” their bill to the nearest dollar Editor's Note: A previous version of this article stated the franchise owner was an aerospace engineer That information provided by the public relations contact was incorrect Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. 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