People dance at World Seafood Restaurant during a banquet marking the one-year anniversary of the Monterey Park mass shooting. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Cindy Lao's line dance was destroyed ...

At a candlelight vigil at Monterey Park City Hall, loved ones of those slain in an attack a year ago on a local dance hall shared remembrances before a hushed crowd. The somber mood all but dissipated ...

Alice Sakaye, whose mom Maria Liang owns the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, says that dancing always made her mother and fellow studio patrons the happiest. Liang was “always making ...

Lloyd Gock was struggling with depression. His clothing company wasn’t doing well. Sometimes, he would think about ending his life. He went to a doctor and was prescribed medication. Nothing was ...

Jim Goodman and his dance partner Hattie Pong were dancing up a storm Sunday night. Never mind, for the moment, the 9-mm bullet still lodged in Goodman’s back, too close to a kidney to remove. Never ...

Outside Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, life moves on. The traffic buzzes up and down nearby Garvey and Garfield avenues. Restaurants and surrounding businesses churn out delicacies for ...

Cindy Lao’s line dance was destroyed by gunfire a year ago, but her spirit wasn’t. On Sunday, the one-year anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in modern Los Angeles County history, Lao led a ...

Cindy Lao's line dance was destroyed by gunfire a year ago, but her spirit wasn't. On Sunday, the one-year anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in modern Los Angeles County history, Lao led a ...