An Alarming Tip Leads a Reporter to L.A.’s Figueroa Street

A journalist spent more than two years investigating a 50-block stretch in Los Angeles, where girls are sex trafficked in ...
Laweekly

Pedestrian Killed in Vehicle Collision on South Figueroa Street [Los Angeles, CA]

LOS ANGELES, CA (July 31, 2023) – Saturday night, a vehicle collision on South Figueroa Street left one Pedestrian Dead. The collision happened around 10:00 p.m. at the 7-Eleven near South Figueroa ...
NBC Los Angeles

Figueroa Street community confronts drug and prostitution problems

The Figueroa Street corridor has faced serious problems of drug and prostitution for years, and residents have had enough. Residents in the South Los Angeles neighborhood walked side by side with Los ...
Los Angeles Times

Why L.A. shouldn’t rename a stretch of Figueroa Street for Kobe Bryant

Whether with a bulldozer or stroke of a pen, Los Angeles often shows little respect for its multilayered history. To most motorists, Figueroa, Pico and Alvarado may just be major and meaningless ...