Mayor Karen Bass signed a proclamation on Thursday to rename the last Monday of March “Farm Workers Day” in the city of Los Angeles. “This is a very difficult day,” Bass acknowledged at the beginning of a news conference announcing the change. It comes after bombshell sexual abuse allegations surfaced against César Chavez, the long-admired […]

A man was killed in a suspected hit-and-run after a driver struck him multiple times in South Los Angeles early Thursday, authorities said. The incident occurred around midnight in the 1700 block of West Florence Avenue. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to reports of a vehicle-versus-pedestrian crash. Witnesses told police the driver drove onto […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband marched and fasted alongside César Chavez. They helped him open a radio station in Phoenix and plastered their Mexican restaurant with photos and a mural of the widely admired Latino icon. So when Wilcox’s daughter called this week to inform them of sexual abuse allegations leveled […]