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Anthea Raymond is a journalist and educator who has lived in Silver Lake since 2002.
Her reports have been heard on National Public Radio for over twenty years.
She has taught communications history and audio production at UCLA, USC, and Hunter and Santa Monica colleges.
A former LA Press Club president, she has a JD and an MBA from UCLA, and was the first senior editor at KPCC.
At KPCC, she supervised a team of award winning journalists including Frank Stoltze, John Rabe, Adolfo Guzman Lopez and Ilsa Setziol for almost two years.
She has also served as a Show Editor at NPR's News and Notes--the network's ground-breaking show on the African-American experience--and the Senior Producer of Bloomberg Politically Speaking.
A graduate of Palisades High, she has taught kayaking at UCLA's Marina Aquatic Center for many years.
She was one of the founding members of the Edendale Library Friends Society (ELFS) in 2004. She produced several benefits for the group at the Echo and Echoplex.
Raymond has also served on the advisory board of the Echo Park Recreation Center.
She is the eldest of six siblings, and the daughter of Joseph Raymond, former Associate Director of UCLA Medical Center.
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Olvera Street's plaza hosted its Fourth Annual Taste of Italy Saturday to benefit Los Angeles's new Italian American Museum. The museum will be housed in the historic Italian Hall on Olvera Street.
Ari Bessendorf is the new president of the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council.
The man fired a shot, then ran down Sunset Boulevard and into the restaurant, where he was taken into custody.
The five day waiting period for challenges to Saturday's voting has officially passed, with only the results in the Greater Echo Park Elysian race on hold.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which means a variety of pink products will be hitting the shelves. But, do your pink purchases always go towards the cause?
An LAPD spokesperson said the suspects may not have known they were firing at an undercover officer.
Peter Bedard and Patrick Tolentino want people to learn more about the healing properties of teas.
Traffic on the freeway southbound and along Glendale, Temple and surrounding streets was disrupted. Surface streets were expected to remain closed to traffic for the night.
The California Highway Patrol apprehended someone around 7:30 p.m. walking north in lanes.
The act's impact in Southern California was noted with a conference in downtown L.A. Tuesday.
Broken sprinklers push water into the stairwells and basement of the Saban Research Institute. The water also spread on to one office floor.
A bike lane along Mason Avenue will become curbside parking, in a six-month-long experiment.
Stakeholders voted to fill seats on six local neighborhood councils Saturday.
The man jumped off a four-story building on Mission Road, landing on the fencing.
The six neighborhood councils in the Echo Park, Silver Lake and Los Feliz areas hold their elections Saturday. Click through for information about the candidates and where to vote.
The name of the victim still has not been released.
Chief Charlie Beck said the new policy would help build trust in heavily Latino communities.