#homeless-encampment

#homeless-encampment

A dog was shot and killed by LAPD officers after it bit someone Tuesday morning at a homeless encampment in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of South Los Angeles, police said.Officers responded to a radio call about a person being bit by a dog near the intersection of Vermont Avenue and West 70th Street at 10:24 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The fence went up in 2021, just as a homeless encampment with nearly 200 people was cleared out.Workers began dismantling the fence that surrounds Echo Park Lake on Monday, two years after a massive homeless encampment was cleared out of the historic park.Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, who took office in December, ran on a promise to take the temporary chain-link fence down, calling it a "symbol" of the city's biggest failure on homelessness.

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article.Two people died in San Jose of suspected exposure, increasing the recent cold-weather-related death toll in the Bay Area to at least four amid plunging temperatures that have prompted a freeze warning for Wednesday morning.

Two people died in San Jose of suspected exposure, increasing the recent cold-weather-related death toll in the Bay Area to at least four amid plunging temperatures that have prompted a freeze warning for Wednesday morning.The two latest victims were found in the 95112 zip code, which includes downtown San Jose, according to Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden.

Tents line the sidewalk on East Hastings Street as the city works to clear tents from a sprawling homeless encampment in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press) The federal departments tasked with curbing chronic homelessness in Canada don't know if the billions of dollars in public money they've spent have been effective, Canada's auditor general reported on Tuesday.

Activists gathered Thursday morning at a homeless encampment in the Fulton Market area to protest the removal of winterized tents that had been tagged by the city warning occupants that the tents had to be cleared for a street cleaning scheduled today.Late Wednesday, officials from the Department of Family and Support Services told the Tribune that the tents would not need to be cleared for the scheduled cleaning and only be required to be moved for "deep cleanings."

The days-long search for four people who remain unaccounted for after floodwaters swept away 10 in Ontario will continue into the weekend, authorities said Friday.Ontario Fire Department's Urban Search and Rescue Team did not find any survivors or bodies Friday, ending its search around 5 p.m., said Dan Bell, the city's director of communications and community relations.

Authorities have identified the person who drowned after being swept away by floodwaters in Ontario during Tuesday's record-breaking storm in Southern California.The man was identified as Anthony Ray Lopez Sr., 63, of Ontario by the San Bernardino County Coroner.The Ontario Police Department responded about 9:46 a.m. to a drowning report at a water basin at East Philadelphia and South Baker Avenue.

O'Farrell grew up in a working-class family in Oklahoma.His father was a truck driver and Teamster, his mother an administrative assistant.Native American and openly gay, he made his way to Southern California in the early 1980s for that most L.A. of reasons: He had an audition.The production didn't work out, but O'Farrell stayed, studying acting and dance.