Skip to Content
News

Headlines: Three Mixteco Men Murdered in Phoenix; ‘Atheist Pirates’ Clean Up L.A.’s Streets

8:30 AM PST on March 4, 2022

photo: Gerson Repreza/Unsplash

Welcome to L.A. TACO’s daily news briefs, where we bring our loyal members, readers, and supporters the latest headlines about Los Angeles politics and culture. Stay informed and look closely.

—Three indigenous Mixteco men from Santo Domingo Tepuxtepec, Oaxaca, were found murdered in Phoenix after crossing the border for Wisconsin with a larger group they'd separated from. [Vice]

—KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic has put us onto a large database of Ukranian musicians to explore, along with charities and community groups to help support Ukrainians. [Google Docs]

—Leslie Stephanie Ramirez Perez, a footballer raised in L.A. by a dad from Mexico and mom from Guatemala, has been signed to play as a forward for Liga MX Femenil club CD Guadalajara. [Chivas Feng/Twitter]

—West Hollywood's infamous Viper Room nightclub is slated to be transformed into a 12-floor mixed use project under Silver Creek Development. [Deadline]

—A historic look back into the rise of L.A.'s Black-owned restaurants. [LAist]

—Atheist Pirates, a subgroup of Atheists United, is a team that scouts the streets of Los Angeles for illegal religious signs, then takes them down to, as one member says, “reinforce our commitment to a secular society.” [Religion News]

—Today L.A. County has lifted the indoor mask mandate. [LAT]

—1,600 trees will be planted along a five-mile section of South L.A.'s Slauson Avenue, thanks to a $500,000 grant given by the California Natural Resources Agency to L.A. Sanitation and Environment. [NBC]

—A second L.A. deputy is accusing an LAPD commander of intentionally getting in the way of a criminal investigation into firearms theft from an L.A. Police Academy gun store to cover up the crime for another commander. [LAT]

—The difficult, seemingly never-ending task of identifying Mexico's nearly 100,000 disappeared murder victims. [AP]

—Visualizing our world's landfill/garbage crisis. [VC]

Already a user?Log in

Thanks for reading!

Register to continue

Become a Member

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from L.A. TACO

FBI, ATF, and LAPD Announce Crack Down on Drugs, Ghost Guns, and Crime Linked to Cartels in Harbor Area

The multi-agency investigation, which found the criminal activities stretching to associates in two counties in Northern California, yielded a total of 27 arrests, 30 firearms, 72,115 fentanyl pills, 1.7 pounds of fentanyl powder, 143 pounds of methamphetamine, 4.7 pounds of heroin, 1.9 pounds of cocaine, 1.7 of pounds PCP, and $44,000.

October 3, 2023

Exclusive: Top Film & TV Studios Spent Over $660 Billion on Stock Buybacks While Actors and Writers Live ‘Paycheck to Paycheck’

According to economist William Lazonick stock repurchasers like Apple could certainly use the tens of billions that they spend on buybacks to pay actors and screenwriters more. “The fact [is] they’re not paying them more,” and instead they’re making the rich richer.

October 3, 2023
See all posts