Wednesday’s Headlines
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7:14 AM PST on February 18, 2026
- The Daily Memo tracking ICE at L.A. TACO
- After months of ICE raids, day labor center at LA Home Depot repels threat of eviction (LA Public Press)
- LA revives zoning law that could ban some private detention centers from contracting with ICE (LAist)
- Beloved Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing ICE (WTOC)
- As ICE raids continue, volunteers say grocery deliveries are still critically needed (LA Local)
- Little-used ICE agreements with local police have exploded under Trump (NPR)
- Protestor shot in face by less-lethal round to file excessive force lawsuit against LAPD (KTLA)
- De Los (LA Times) features queer Salvadoran artist Johanna Toruño confronting fear through art
- Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments (LA Times)
- Used electric vehicles under $25,000 surge as new EV sales crash (LA Times)
- High-speed rail leader on leave after news of arrest for suspicion of domestic battery (LA Times)
- 1 killed, 2 hospitalized in head-on crash on Ventura County freeway (KTLA)
- Police searching for hit-and-run driver after crash at Western/82nd in South LA kills pedestrian (CBS)
- Black Events LA organizes monthly community walks to support Black-owned businesses (ABC7)
- A look at The Dunbar: This South Central senior apartment complex was once the Black entertainment capital of the city (LA Local)
- L.A. County sheriff and fire departments looking to ramp up for Olympic Games in 2028 (Los Angeles Daily News)
- Names of the Unhoused Dead Will Be Read During Church Memorial Service (Pasadena Now)
- LA considers ‘gut punch’ cuts to city homelessness programs, blaming court settlement costs (LAist)
- Citing fire risk, L.A. city may get more power to remove hillside homeless encampments (LA Times)
- Family seeks $28.5M in death of man, 28, fatally struck by transit bus while boarding in Riverside (KTLA)
- See 9 murals celebrating Chicano history on a short walk in East LA (Boyle Heights Beat)
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Sahra is Communities Editor for Streetsblog L.A., covering the intersection of mobility with race, class, history, representation, policing, housing, health, culture, community, and access to the public space in Boyle Heights and South Central Los Angeles.
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