Eric Garcetti

Wendy Greuel concedes L.A. mayor's race to Eric Garcetti

2013-05-22 10:52:00

Wendy Greuel officially conceded the Los Angeles mayor's race to Eric Garcetti on Wednesday after final results showed Garcetti with a 54% to 46% advantage in a low-turnout election. "I may not have been able to break the glass ceiling, but we sure made...

Eric Garcetti faces tough tests when he takes office as mayor

2013-05-22 17:03:00

In the campaign for mayor, Eric Garcetti spoke grandly about a city with plentiful summer jobs for low-income teens, a tunnel under the traffic-clogged Sepulveda Pass and even an end to homelessness. But a day after winning office, the mayor-elect faced...

L.A. Election: Breaking down the results [Video discussion]

2013-05-21 23:39:00

Results for the Los Angeles election trickled in Tuesday night�as voters decided on�a mayor, city controller and city attorney. Seats were also up for grabs on the City Council and L.A. Unified and L.A. Community College district boards. On Wednesday...

Sun Valley bear tranquilized, captured after roaming neighborhood

2013-05-22 08:44:00

A bear that spent more than an hour Wednesday morning roaming through a Sun Valley neighborhood was tranquilized and captured and will be returned to the forest, authorities said. The approximately 15-month-old bear scaled walls, climbed fences and...

L.A. mayor's race: It's Eric Garcetti by wide margin

2013-05-22 06:22:00

This post has been corrected. See the note below for details. Three-term City Councilman Eric Garcetti's relentless campaigning paid off early Wednesday as he decisively won a hard-fought race to become Los Angeles' next mayor, scoring well with...

With all precincts reporting, clear leaders emerge in city races

2013-05-22 04:23:00

The Los Angeles city clerk early Wednesday morning released final vote tallies for the citywide election, leaving only mail-in ballot results standing between candidates' victory and defeat. With 100% of precincts reporting just after 3 a.m., clear...

Mayor's race: Garcetti's lead over Greuel widens to 8 points

2013-05-22 01:43:00

With more than half of precincts reporting, City Councilman Eric Garcetti's lead over mayoral opponent Wendy Greuel widened to 8 points in the early hours of Wednesday morning. As of 1 a.m. PDT Wednesday, Garcetti led Greuel 54% to 46% in the race to...

UC healthcare workers enter second day of two-day strike

2013-05-22 08:23:00

A strike across the state by thousands of University of California healthcare workers in a labor dispute� began its second and final day Wednesday. The first day of the strike prompted the cancellation of hundreds of surgeries, the closure of laboratory...

Garcetti wins race for L.A. mayor; Greuel concedes

2013-05-22 03:27:00

Wendy Greuel called Eric Garcetti early Wednesday morning to concede the mayoral election, a Greuel campaign source told The Times, ending a two-year campaign to determine Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's successor and the new political leader of Los Angeles....

Garcetti takes lead over Greuel in L.A. mayor's race

2013-05-21 23:15:00

With 14% of precincts reporting election results Tuesday night, City Councilman Eric Garcetti took the lead in the mayor's race from Controller Wendy Greuel, 51% to 49%. At 11 p.m., Garcetti led Greuel by about 3,500 votes. Of the city's 1,311...

Garcetti, Greuel in dead heat for L.A. mayor

2013-05-21 22:51:00

The latest round of election results that trickled in Tuesday night showed City Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel in a dead heat in the race to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. With 8% of precints reporting, Greuel had 50% of...

L.A. Mayor's Election: Eric Garcetti supporters sounding optimistic

2013-05-21 22:19:00

City Councilman Eric Garcetti’s supporters began filling up the Hollywood Palladium theater long before the first results were released, as the Los Angeles mayoral hopeful awaited returns with his family at a nearby hotel. The choice of the...

Kevin James endorses Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti in front of Van Nuys City Hall. The city councilman now has the backing of every major candidate who finished behind him and City Controller Wendy Greuel in the Los Angeles mayoral primary.

2013-04-02 00:00:00

Candidate in the Los Angeles City mayoral race, Councilman Eric Garcetti kisses his wife Amy Wakeland after they voted at Allesandro Elemantary School in Boyle Heights area Los Angeles, California.

2013-03-05 00:00:00

Councilman Eric Garcetti, candidate in the Los Angeles City mayoral race, speaks with patron of Jim's Burger as he visits business around Metro Gold Line's Mariachi Plaza Station during a campaign stop in Boyle Heights area Los Angeles, California.

2013-03-04 00:00:00