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A woman driving an old limousine ran down another woman in a Skid Row drug dispute, dragging her for almost a mile to her death early Thursday before pursuing police finally stopped the car, authorities said.
Jeff Page barely walks half a block along Skid Row's teeming streets before he's waved down by someone with a problem — taco trucks parked in front of a restaurant, drug dealing in a residential hotel or just a case of hard-luck blues.
Some 200 homeless people wait outside a Skid Row shelter, clutching citation slips for minor offenses: jaywalking, sitting on a curb, pushing around shopping carts.
Craby Joe's was once a joint where denizens of nearby Skid Row slouched on barstools over dirty linoleum getting soused on $2.50 mugs of Miller High Life.
The city attorney stood on the roof of a homeless shelter high above the human misery of Skid Row in April and announced a $1.6 million settlement from a hospital accused of dumping about 150 mentally ill patients on the streets.
The majority of a $1.6 million settlement negotiated after a hospital was accused of dumping 150 mentally ill patients on Skid Row hasn't gone to charities working with the city's homeless.
A $1.6 million settlement has been reached with two Southern California hospitals accused of improperly discharging and dumping psychiatric patients on Los Angeles' Skid Row, the city attorney's office said Wednesday.
Clutching pajamas for her three youngest kids, Janice Johnson straggled into a Skid Row homeless shelter on a recent night, frustrated and weary from another fruitless apartment hunt.
While carmakers have their hands out to Congress, a kindly soul showed up in a car to deliver his own bailout to those on Skid Row.
Police officers patrolling the city's Skid Row area must undergo special training and face new restrictions on how they can search people and run parole status checks, under a settlement with a civil rights group announced Thursday.
For hundreds of homeless people, posing as phony hospital patients provided them a clean bed and cash. For the hospitals that processed them, it meant a full patient-load and a paycheck from the government.
A hospital has agreed to settle two lawsuits accusing it of leaving a homeless paraplegic man on Skid Row without his wheelchair, attorneys said.
Crack users openly suck on glass pipes, gang members deal drugs on sidewalks and streets are speckled with human feces.
Civil rights activists sued a hospital Thursday for releasing a paraplegic, mentally ill man who was found crawling in a Skid Row gutter in what the lawsuit describes as an "obscene" case of homeless dumping.
Kirk Douglas, Harrison Ford and other celebrities shared the Thanksgiving spirit Wednesday by serving hot meals to homeless people on Skid Row.
A police detective said a man accused of taking nearly a half-million dollars in a string of bank holdups claimed he gave out most of the money on Los Angeles' Skid Row.
The early morning light reveals a no loitering sign and a half-dozen people sleeping beneath it in tents on the Skid Row sidewalk.
The sight of a sleek BMW emerging from a garage below one of downtown's new snazzy buildings scares Michael Reed a lot more than the junkies, pickpockets and prostitutes of nearby Skid Row.
Just about the last thing Richard Ramirez expected when he ducked in out of the rain for an early Easter dinner and a new pair of shoes was to have his feet washed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Queen will run out of money in Diamond Jubilee year without more fundsThe Queen will run out funds by 2012 in her Diamond Jubilee year unless the government increases the Civil List for the first time in 20 years.
Joe Wright's "The Soloist" Exploits The Skid Row CommunityWhat I uncovered on Skid Row is a malaise more perverse than Mr. Wright's orgiastic assault on the poor and the mentally ill.
Top 10 Hair Metal Heroes"We count down the skankiest do's in rock." This is so not the kind of photo essay I expected to find on FoxNews.com.
In Skid Row, Manure Happens - Residents Complain About Police Horses That Do Their Business on SidewalksDOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - At the corner of Towne and Seventh streets in Skid Row, Officer Scott Brown sits tall in the saddle atop one of the horses from the Los Angeles Police Department's mounted unit.
Its amazing to watch the progression in technology when you watch the music videos from the 1980's. In the early 80's, around 1980 when MTV first started the production value was extremely low and within a matter of 3 years you see a vast improvement in video quality.
Getting Real With a Community OrganizerThe Giuliani and Palin speeches at the RNC went out of their way to mock the work of community organizers. Popandpolitics.com found a real live community organizer. His hard work is nothing to mock.
The Reclamation of Skid RowThe LAPD's efforts are reviving America's most squalid neighborhood—and the homeless industry is hopping mad.
County pays $1.5 million to aid homeless inmatesFor five years, the sheriff's Community Transition Unit has tried to connect homeless inmates with services before releasing them from jail. Now, Los Angeles County hopes to expand the program.
Los Angeles Police Are Gentrifying Skid Row with ForceAlternet reports, "For decades, a 50-block area in downtown Los Angeles known as Skid Row has been a hub for shelters and social services for homeless and extremely poor people, the majority of them Black.
LAPD Gentrifies Skid Row Amid rapid-fire gentrification of the downtown area, city leaders have implemented a police crackdown on Skid Row that has resulted in the harassment, arrest and displacement of thousands of poor people of color.
LAPD skid row searches found unconstitutionalA federal judge has ruled that some Los Angeles police tactics in patrolling downtown are unconstitutional, raising questions about the city's successful campaign to dramatically reduce the number of crimes and homeless people.
Defying the Odds on a Project in Skid RowThe projects, known as the Rainbow Apartments and the New Carver Apartments and run by the nonprofit Skid Row Housing Trust, reflect changing thinking about how best to reintegrate the homeless into society.
Police allege 5 patients were dumped on skid row by hospital The LAPD says it has opened its first criminal investigation into the dumping of homeless people on skid row after documenting five cases in which ambulances dropped off patients there Sunday.
LAPD's Crime Offensive on Skid Row Is Slipping - Los Angeles TimesThe LAPD's Skid Row crackdown has thus far been ineffective, and points toward the need for a more human policy when dealing with the homeless and a more stringent, harsh crackdown on drugs especially.
wcco.com - Hospital Dumps Patient On Skid RowA video camera has recorded a 63-year-old hospital patient dressed only in a gown and slippers being dumped onto a street in Los Angeles' downtown skid row. It could have been your father.
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