Scott Martelle

Scott is a former Los Angles Times staff writer, political campaign reporter and author of Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West. He also is a book critic for various outlets.

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Police, Fans Skirmish After Lakers Clinch NBA Title

posted: 4 hours 3 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (June 18) -- Nothing says "Lakers victory" like a burning car. For the second year in a row, fans of the Los Angeles Lakers' basketball team celebrated winning the NBA championship by roa ...

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Welcome to the Nation's Worst Town for Job Hunters

posted: 3 days 4 hours ago

EL CENTRO, Calif. (June 15) -- Mark Mendez has always preferred working outdoors -- "man's work," he calls it -- to being in an office, and in April 2007 he landed a pretty good job at a gravel and s ...

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Report: White Population Dwindling as Calif. Grows

posted: 10 days 1 hour ago

LOS ANGELES (June 8) -- Five years ago Sam Greengard, born and raised here amid the sprawl of the nation's second-largest metropolitan area, decided to join a counterwave to the flow of new arrivals ...

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California Moves to Ban Plastic Shopping Bags

posted: 15 days 7 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (June 3) -- California has moved closer to becoming the first state in the nation to join a growing international movement against the use of single-use plastic shopping bags, which envir ...

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LA Mayor Faces Ethics Review Over Free Tickets

posted: 16 days 7 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (June 2) -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a regular at such high-profile events as the annual Academy Awards festivities and Los Angeles Lakers games, could be facing ethics problems over w ...

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Teens' Anti-Semitic Road Race Screeches to a Halt

posted: 17 days 4 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (June 1) -- An anti-Semitic game played by high school students near the desert resort city of Palm Springs has landed them in hot water, even as school officials say there's little they ...

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TV Skit Draws Protest, Apology From Network

posted: 19 days 7 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (May 30) -- A television skit about the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament that drew on African stereotypes has sparked outrage among black activists and earned an apology from the Span ...

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States' Woes Could Weigh on National Recovery

posted: 25 days 5 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (May 24) -- Facing a staggering $17 billion budget deficit and legal restrictions in trimming portions of California's work-for-welfare program, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed ki ...

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Preservationists Add State Parks to 'Endangered' List

posted: 30 days 3 hours ago

(May 19) -- Citing coast-to-coast budget crises, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has added the nation's sprawling state parks systems to its annual "Most Endangered" list of historic sit ...

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Shopper Wounded by Misfire at Calif. Gun Range

posted: 31 days 2 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (May 18) -- File this under: Things not to do at a gun range. A man who was checking his firearms at a store's indoor shooting range in the suburban city of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., pull ...

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