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Nineteen months have passed since Los Angeles police blew up a South L.A. neighborhood while detonating a cache of fireworks, but many of the displaced families still haven’t returned. For them, “home ...

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore has announced that four members of the department's bomb squad were disciplined for their involvement in a botched detonation of illegal fireworks in a South Los ...

More than two years after a LAPD fireworks explosion destroyed homes in a South LA neighborhood, residents are demanding action from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. The explosion injured 17 residents ...