After Atlas Metal Company’s owners, Matthew and Gary Weisenberg, were indicted in September for mishandling hazardous waste ...

The Watts Rebellion ... Black police officers that was the last straw. For six days, riots covered more than 50-mile area of Los Angeles, that left 34 mostly Black citizens dead –– 26 of ...

Half a century before the riots in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, Md., America saw in Los Angeles’s Watts neighborhood the first of the 1960s’ horrifying urban riots. The Berkeley students ...

Look back at the trial and deadly riots that ensued following the ... scavenges through a burnt-out check-cashing shop in the Watts section of Los Angeles on May 2, 1992. A car lies overturned ...

government animal killing and the 1992 L.A. riots. Prior to KCAL, Watts was Los Angeles correspondent for the nationally syndicated program, Crimewatch Tonight. He was a news reporter at KRIV-TV ...

Owners of a Los Angeles scrap metal facility which was the site of an explosion near a school in Watts last year were jailed after prosecutors told a judge Thursday that they violated conditional ...

The scale of the violence at Watts bears no relation whatsoever to ... nothing of this sort should have happened in or around Los Angeles. And I don’t think that any of us should make a finger ...

On Aug. 11, 1965, a Los Angeles policeman named Lee Minikus pulled ... and in it he asked Sanders about his memories of the Watts riots. “I blame the way we reacted to the Watts riots ...

locale of two of the worst riots in U.S. history, is now poorer in relation to the rest of Los Angeles than it was before those upheavals — the Watts riots, in 1965, and the Rodney King unrest ...

Within a year of the riots Hank Leyvas and ... African American section of Watts and another group headed east for Mexican American East Los Angeles. Al Waxman, editor of the Eastside Journal ...

Twenty-five years later, authorities have finally confirmed the identity of the last known victim of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, PEOPLE has learned Twenty-five years later, authorities have ...

The owners of a metal recycling company which has been in a decades-long dispute with a public high school in Watts as well as Los Angeles County were jailed on Thursday after their business was ...