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Cal football player: Cal football player Jeffrey Coprich helps young students learn to read through the #CollectiveProject in honor of his sister Essence K. Coprich, who died in a car accident when she was seven. (California Golden Blogs)

Metro halts construction: Construction on the Crenshaw rail line was closed for four days for safety violations. The construction began again on Monday. (L.A. Times)

Man with autism lost: Gabriel Martinez, a 19-year-old from South L.A. with severe autism, was last seen on the 14000 block of South San Pedro Street around 2:10 p.m. on Monday. Police are asking the public to be on the lookout. (CBS)

Two killed in shooting: Two men were killed on Monday near Central Avenue and 52nd Street on Monday in an apparent gang-related shooting. (L.A. Daily News)

Tavis Smiley remembers Maya Angelou: Smiley recalls his decades-long friendship with Angelou in his latest book, “My Journey with Maya.” (L.A. Times)

Baldwin Hills overlook | Photo by CleftClips (Flickr Creative Commons)

Earthquake hits South LA: A 3.5-magnitude earthquake shook South L.A. Sunday night near Baldwin Hills. (KTLA)

Pedestrian loses leg: A woman was arrested after an alleged hit-and-run crash that critically injured a pedestrian. (KTLA)

Freeway crash injures two: Two people were injured Monday morning when their car struck the concrete barrier and burst into flames on the 110 freeway. (Daily Breeze)

Neighborhood watches car chase: A crowd gathered outside their homes in South L.A. to watch a car chase. Some were just nosey, but others wanted to thought that capturing the scene on video would prevent potential police misconduct. (My Fox L.A.)

Race relations better in California: About two-thirds of California believe that race relations are better in their home state than in other parts of the country according to a recent study by USC Dornsife and the L.A. Times. (L.A. Times)

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Metro unfair to Black contractors: A group of minority workers filed a lawsuit against the county, Metro and contractors for unfairly excluding local Black contractors from work on the Crenshaw and Expo lines. (Daily News)

South L.A. woman find brother stabbed: A woman walking her dog Monday night came home to find her brother stabbed to death. (ABC)

Dual language campus: The Accelerated Schools, a group of charter schools in South L.A., has started construction for a new dual language school on Martin Luther King Boulevard and Main Street. (PR Newswire)

Unarmed teen shot by officer speaks out: The family of 15-year-old Jamar Nicholson has filed a lawsuit in relation to a February 10 incident where LAPD officers shot Nicholson in the back on his way to school. (L.A. Times)

Students at LAUSD school. | Photo by Clotee Allochuku (Flickr Creative Commons)

Music producer musical: A new musical, Recorded in Hollywood, pays tribute to the legacy of South L.A. record store owner and producer John Dolphin, aka Lovin’ John. (L.A. Weekly)

No library staff: LAUSD elementary schools in South L.A. still lack staff to maintain their libraries, even though many school libraries that closed in the recession have begun to open in other parts of the city. (KPCC)

Street artist featured at CAAM: South L.A.- born street artist Adah Glenn’s work is featured at the California African American Museum. (L.A. Weekly)

Food revolution: Guerilla gardener Ron Finley started growing his own garden in South L.A. 10 years ago in the hopes of starting a food revolution. (NBC)

Teen stabbed in backyard: Police search for a suspect who fatally stabbed 18-year-old Tommy Cheatham around 9:30 p.m. Monday in the 800 block of W. 101st Street. (CBS)

Man pleads not guilty to murder: 18-year-old Jose Alberto Perez pleaded not guilty to murder and assault with a deadly weapon charges for shooting his stepfather’s girlfriend, 35-year-old Yemeni DeLeon, in a case of mistaken identity. (My News L.A.)

Ferguson protesters reach the site where Ezell Ford was killed last August. | Daina Beth Solomon

Ezell Ford lawsuit: The parents of Ezell Ford, an unarmed and mentally ill 25-year-old man who was shot and killed by LAPD in August, filed a lawsuit in state court seeking damages for wrongful death, civil rights violations and negligence by the department. They previously filed a federal civil rights suit. (NBC)

False alarm on bomb threat: A South L.A. courthouse was evacuated Monday morning when someone called in a bomb threat after noticing a device with protruding wires. Authorities identified the object as a non-threatening piece from an electrical transformer. (L.A. Times)

Blk Grrrl Book Fair: The event in South L.A. last Saturday celebrated artists and writers with a focus on intersectionality, a word used to describe the overlap of sexism, racism and classism. (L.A. Weekly)

Mother, two children rescued from fire: Firefighters rescued a mother and her two children from a burning building near 80th and Figueroa streets on Monday night. (CBS)

One killed in shooting: One person was killed in a shooting Monday afternoon near E. 105th and San Pedro streets in South L.A. (NBC)

Photography documents L.A. dispensaries: For three years, Angelino Rick Bolton has photographed dispensaries from South Central to Venice Beach. (Washington Post)