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The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country.

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3 California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions

Their motives for mass murder appeared to be different — workplace enmity, law enforcement officials said, or personal resentment, or a political conflict in a homeland across the ocean. But they were all Asian men of retirement age, who within the past year have been accused of expressing their bitterness …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Vice President Kamala Harris visits growing memorial for Monterey Park shooting victims

On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris joined in what has become a nightly ritual in Monterey Park, as hundreds gathered in front of the dance studio where 11 people were gunned down amid Lunar New Year revelry Saturday night. Weaving through a crowd that included dozens of reporters, people carried …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

California reeling from back-to-back shootings that killed 24: 'Too much bloodshed'

The sweet, smoky smell of incense wafted toward a crowd of hundreds outside Monterey Park City Hall on Tuesday night, just a few blocks from the dance studio where 11 people were killed in one of three mass shootings in California in eight days. Gazing out at a sea of …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

'Together we will make it through': Mourners gather at vigil for 11 killed in Monterey Park shooting

As investigators combed Southern California for anything to help explain the deadliest U.S. mass shooting in months, more than 100 mourners gathered Monday night at a vigil in Monterey Park that served as a sober contrast to the season’s usual Lunar New Year celebrations. Gathering in the small public park …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Lunar New Year shooting: A grim moment in Monterey Park, America's first suburban Chinatown

Sometime between 1970 and 1990, Monterey Park became America’s first suburban Chinatown, where swift demographic changes heralded conflicts over language, signs, a changing business scene and political voice. In 2023 it is a city once again in flux, but as a tight-knit community whose residents typify what it means to …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Not invited to the dance: A possible motive for Monterey Park shooting

The investigation into the Monterey Park mass shooting is focused on previous interactions the gunman had with the two dance studios he targeted and whether jealousy over a relationship was a motive, according to law enforcement sources. The sources stressed that the investigation was in its early stages. But detectives …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

How the Lunar New Year massacre unfolded: A night of ballroom dancing, terror, manhunt

The burst of pops sounded, at first, like the firecrackers expected to cap a day of celebration. It was late Saturday night in Monterey Park, and the city’s Lunar New Year festival had ended an hour earlier. People were still strolling through downtown when the noise echoed from a ballroom …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Authorities identify 72-year-old man as suspected gunman in Lunar New Year mass shooting

Authorities have identified the man responsible for a deadly shooting inside a Monterey Park dance studio as Hemet resident Huu Can Tran, 72. Tran died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a strip mall parking lot near Sepulveda and Hawthorne boulevards in Torrance, law enforcement sources said. “We still are …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

For the first time in state history, a woman will likely lead California's emergency response

For the first time, a woman has been selected to lead California’s emergency response. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday appointed Nancy Ward as director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. She will replace Mark Ghilarducci, who served in the role for a decade and announced his retirement earlier this …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Rains usher in new year for much of California

The year came to a soggy and stormy conclusion across California Saturday night, with near record-breaking rainfall swamping roadways in the San Francisco Bay Area and the expectation of more moisture prompting officials to issue warnings near some Southern California fire burn areas. Much of the rain in downtown Los …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Bonded by a high school in Korea, these immigrants gather for a 'send off the year' party

As the graduates of Seoul Arts High School and its sister junior high arrived at the banquet, they greeted one another with cries of “Sunbae-nim!” — older classmate — or “Hubae!” — younger classmate. Their ages spanned decades. Most had not known each other in South Korea. But the bond …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

San Mateo finally picks a mayor after routine appointment dissolves into turmoil

In San Mateo, choosing a mayor is normally a routine process. The five council members elect one of their colleagues to lead the city — traditionally, the longest-serving member. This year, Amourence Lee was in line for the job, as the only one who had been on the dais before …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Iconic Chinese mall in San Gabriel to be renovated, worrying longtime tenants

Since 1990, Focus Plaza has been a landmark in the San Gabriel Valley. One of the first malls in the area to cater to Chinese customers, it remains a one-stop shop, offering groceries, eyeglasses, jewelry, herbal medicines and cuisines from many provinces. With competition from online retailers and glitzy shopping …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

L.A. on the Record: Waiting patiently (or not) to see who will be L.A.'s next mayor

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our local elections newsletter. It’s Ben Oreskes with tons and tons of help from a murderers’ row of colleagues including Jeong Park, Dakota Smith, Dave Zahniser and Jim Rainey. As Grove staffers popped balloons that had been dropped and the …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

How two corgis and a Pikachu suit helped Kenneth Mejia make history in L.A. controller race

To get some attention for his unconventional Los Angeles city controller campaign, Kenneth Mejia turned to Pokémon. He wanted to dress up as the Pikachu character, a cheery yellow rodent who has been used as a symbol of defiance at protests and by politicians, but his campaign manager was wary. …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

How being an L.A. City Council member became political poison in year of scandal, voter rage

If there was one occupation in L.A. that proved to be radioactive with voters this year, it was Los Angeles City Council member. With corruption scandals, a protracted homelessness crisis and — in the campaign’s final weeks — a secret recording of racist remarks by city leaders, council members found …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Labor organizer Hugo Soto-Martinez takes the lead over L.A. Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell

Labor organizer Hugo Soto-Martinez led Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell Wednesday morning in the race to represent Hollywood and other neighborhoods, in one of several contests that could determine whether a new crop of candidates will push City Hall further to the left. O’Farrell, a two-term incumbent, was facing …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Myanmar's ethnic insurgents raise the pressure on military junta

The day her 4-year-old grandson was killed, U San Yee had taken him to their local market in rural Myanmar for sticky rice and his favorite fried banana snacks before coming home to play with his toy cars. “We didn’t know that the Myanmar military would fire artillery shells,” U …
By Kyaw Hsan Hlaing
• Los Angeles Times

Under-the-radar local and state elections to watch for in California's midterm election

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California . It’s Monday, Nov. 7. I’m Jeong Park, an Asian American communities reporter, coming to you from Mid-City in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, California voters will cast ballots on thousands of races, from school boards to the state’s governor. Understandably, no media …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Are Asian American college applicants at a disadvantage? Supreme Court debate stirs fear

Kenji Horigome’s college application featured a 4.2 GPA, challenging coursework and a compelling narrative of losing his father as a boy and struggling to make ends meet with his single mother, a low-wage Koreatown restaurant worker. But he didn’t bother to apply to Harvard or Yale. “I heard that Asians …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

A battle over who is the true progressive defines L.A. congressional race

As the recording of a racist conversation between Los Angeles labor and political leaders plunged the city into a political crisis unlike any other, David Kim and Jimmy Gomez took different paths. Gomez, an incumbent congressman, and former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in a room at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, calling …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

How generational gap may have helped lead to South Korea's Halloween tragedy

In 2019, Hannah Lee, a college student from a suburb of Seoul, told her family that she was heading to the lively Itaewon neighborhood to celebrate Halloween. Lee, now 23, was curious to see fellow young Koreans dressed as zombies. Elder family members were puzzled. “All asked: Why?” she recalled. …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Hiroshima, a band that helped define Asian American identity, will take a hiatus

Record labels didn’t know what to do with Hiroshima. The band, led by Japanese American Boyle Heights native Dan Kuramoto, defied simple categorization. It featured Japanese instruments like taiko drums and koto yet played jazz and rhythm and blues, laced with pop and funk. Hiroshima had found its footing in …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Warner Bros.' 'Gotham Knights' video game blasts open doors for diversity in voice acting

The casting process for the main characters in Warner Bros. Games’ , “Gotham Knights,” started out by being as open as possible during the first round of interviews. This allowed the studio to get a wide pool of talent, but also “so we get diversity in the room,” said narrative …
By George Yang
• Los Angeles Times

Angelenos call for resignations and reforms at town hall on racist audio leak

After the leaked recordings of racist comments from some of Los Angeles’ most powerful Latino leaders upended the city over the last two weeks, it was clear healing wasn’t going to come during Thursday night’s hourlong town hall. But many Angelenos were determined to unite and move forward — starting …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Bass, Villaraigosa, other leaders call for unity after racist remarks by L.A. councilmembers

Before a closed-door meeting at Los Angeles Trade Technical College with community leaders and elected officials on Tuesday morning, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) called for unity. “We have been through things like this before, and here we are again,” said Bass, who is running for mayor, referring to events …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times