El Monte — Mexican cowboys known as charros are a mournful sight as they escort a hearse bearing the body of Emelio Franco, the owner of two popular Los Angeles clubs who was killed in a home invasion robbery.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times
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Boyle Heights — A man waits for a bus at Cesar Chavez Avenue and Soto Street in Boyle Heights.
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Jacumba, Calif. — The desert isolation between San Diego and Calexico has been passed over by prosperity. Storefronts are shuttered and roads unpaved. For immigrants and drug traffickers this is a gateway to El Norte.
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Lynwood — Plaza Mexico in Lynwood gives shoppers the feel of old Mexico. The sprawling commercial complex caters to a predominantly Latino clientele, but is owned and operated by a Korean American real estate developer.
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Palm Desert — A flower blooms atop thorny ocotillo cacti at the visitor center of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.
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Cedarville, Calif. — Ranch hand Duane Herbert has a revolver strapped to his hip as he works in Modoc County, which has the highest per capita concealed-weapons permits in California.
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Bodie, Calif. — The remains of a once-thriving gold mining community are the main attractions of Bodie State Historic Park in the Eastern Sierras near Willow Springs.
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Los Angeles — A woman sells souvenirs with a Southwest theme from a kiosk on Olvera Street, the historic core of L.A.
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Los Angeles, Calif. — A cyclist pedals past the historic mission in Los Angeles where Spanish settlers arrived and built a remote outpost in 1781.
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Los Angeles — Friends and relatives of Kashmier James are overcome with grief at a news conference announcing a $75,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals involved in James' murder on Christmas Day 2010.
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Olancha, Calif. — Rare rainfall produces a rainbow over the dusty bed of Owens Lake, which is dry because the streams that once fed into it are being diverted to the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Water from the Owens Valley makes up about 41% of supplies to L.A., which is more than 250 miles to the south.
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Tecate, Mexico — Dusk descends on Tecate, Mexico, a town known to be a staging area for the smuggling of drugs and illegal immigrants into the U.S.
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Mammoth Lakes, Calif. — A cloud formation known locally as a Sierra Wave fans out over the Owens River near Mammoth Lakes.
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El Monte — A Mexican cowboy known as a charro leads a riderless horse during the funeral for Amelio Franco, owner of two popular Los Angeles clubs and the Rancho Farallon riding stables in El Monte. Franco also was well known as an actor who played supporting roles in movies about the Mexican drug trade.
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El Centro, Calif. — A gun enthusiast shoots cans and bottles with a rifle at a roadside shooting range in the desert east of San Diego.
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California-Mexico border — Wooden crosses in the desert mark the border between California and Mexico. Their origin long forgotten, the crosses now serve mainly as landmarks for smugglers and the U.S. Border Patrol.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times
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