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Headlines: Popular Long Beach Taquero Gets Shut Down By a Police-Assisted Health Department; Dodgers Win 107 Games

<p>Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; In 2023, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.</p>


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Abducted Teen From Amber Alert Fatally Shot During ‘Firefight’ with San Bernardino Sheriff Deputies

Headlines: Mexico City Watchdog Warns Restaurants To Steer Clear of Mario Batali; Teen Suspect Arrested In PnB Rock Slaying

<p>One of L.A. TACO&#8217;s co-founders, Hadley Tomicki is a writer and editor on food, travel, and culture whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, UrbanDaddy, High Times, and many other places.</p>


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California Has Highest Fines for Traffic and Parking Violations in Country

Headlines: Street Vendor Advocate Gets a Haircut to Show Support; A Doctor Claims DEA is Making Up ‘Rainbow Fentanyl’

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L.A. Rapper Kee Riches Killed In Compton Over The Weekend

Palos Verdes Fault Line Could Create Quake ’45 Times’ Stronger Than ’94 Northridge

Headlines: California Passes New Laws Against Catalytic Converter Thieves; Lawyers Recommend $8 Million Settlement for Andres Guardado

Headlines: L.A. Schools Will Start Stocking Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug After Recent Student Deaths; Ukraine Surf Team Competing in H.B.

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