Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks at town hall meeting at Holman United Methodist Church in. Photo by Susan Fitzpatrick.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signs minimum wage law: The mayor signed the proposal to raise the minimum wage in the city to $13.25 by 2017 into law on Saturday in a South L.A. park. (L.A. Daily News)
South L.A. gets new hospital after 8 years: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital is set to open three weeks in the South Los Angeles area. It has been 8 years since the original King Hospital closed because of poor patient care. (ABC 7)
Help pours in to restore South L.A. widow’s water service: Readers help a South L.A. resident pay her bills after she enduring a year without running water. (L.A. Times)
All-boys Watts high school has 100 percent college acceptance: For the seventh year in a row, every student at Verbum De School, a Watts high school, was accepted to a four-year college. The high percentage of students at the school are from a low-income background or might be the first in their family to attend college. (ABC 7)
Curren Price, 9th District councilmember, brings home the trash cans: The Los Angeles City Council approved funds to be used for 200 automated trash cans in South LA. The councilmember says that trash cans are virtually non-existent in his district area. (My News LA)
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