Curren Price

Wave Staff and Wire Reports

LOS ANGELES — Six days after being hospitalized, City Councilman Curren Price was absent from the City Council meeting Oct. 7.

Price was taking by paramedics to a hospital Oct. 1 when he needed medical attention during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Los Angeles Convention Center expansion project, a spokesman for his office said. He was reported suffering from dehydration.

Price is “resting and recovering” at home, Angelina Valencia-Dumarot, director of communications for Price’s office, told City News Service in a text message Oct. 2. Valencia-Dumont said Price serving District 9 continues without interruption.

“He remains focused on the meaningful issues that matter to neighbors — mobilizing after a recent fire, connecting residents with j

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