Neighborhood Spotlight: Bell`s advantageous location bumps its past scandal down a few pegs
(LA Times Clippers)

In the 1800s, the king of Spain was in the habit of extravagantly rewarding the civil servants and soldiers who helped tend to his far-flung empire, providing eye-poppingly large land grants to generals and back-office non-commissioned officers alike. So it was that Cpl. Don Antonio Maria Lugo,...