Artesia News

Voters across the Southern California went to the polls on Tueday to fill city council and school board seats and decided an array of measures on issues ranging from overnight street parking restrictions to increases in hotel bed taxes to help shore up struggling municipal budgets.

Residents of Yuma headed to the polls Tuesday to determine who will be the city's next mayor.

Across Southern California, recession-pinched cities and school districts are asking their voters for help in Tuesday's local elections.

A traffic collision today in Bellflower caused by three men in a stolen vehicle left a 6-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy in critical condition, authorities said.

Judith Eunice Hyder, 83, died peacefully at home on October 5, 2009, while recovering from pneumonia and health complications arising from her hip fracture 13 months before.

A 70-year-old man was reunited Monday night at Artesia City Hall with the Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and fire department paramedics who saved his life.

Los Angeles County Fire Hazmat crews conducted an investigation in Bellflower today after a pair of sheriff's deputies became ill while driving through the area, authorities said.

Mayor Larry Nelson, Councilman Paul Johnson and the residents of the Bluffs and Cresta Gila Estates subdivisions that border Araby Road north of Interstate 8 are rightfully opposed to traffic from SR 195 - also known as the Area Service Highway - traveling through their part of the city to connect with US 95.

A gang member was arrested and charged with killing a prostitute who was found dead in a Garden Grove hotel room last month.

While New York and Los Angeles are clearly, very different cities, the outer reaches of both areas have something in common: terrific foods from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds.

From 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Lakewood, will host the 7th annual Senior Fair at the Artesia Community Center The Senior Fair will feature free health screenings, free information and legal advice from senior providers and government agencies.

The fourth and final suspect implicated in a home invasion robbery near Santa Barbara City College is behind bars after U.S. marshals tracked down the 19-year-old at his Los Angeles home.

Join the Whittier Senior Center, 13225 Walnut St., for an educational lecture on the importance of fluid balance for individuals on dialysis from 10 to 11 a.m. on Friday.

Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: kept by a convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave and forced to bear two of his children.

Among the sea of Indian shops and restaurants along Pioneer Boulevard, Postma's Furniture stands out as a small glimpse into the street's past.

The Long Beach Freeway between the San Diego Freeway and the Artesia Freeway will be closed overnight this weekend for a repaving project, according to Caltrans.

A man was in critical condition Sunday after being shot by sheriff's deputies at the end of a foot pursuit in Long Beach, a deputy said.

The battle over the California budget vote continues. Early Friday morning that State Senate approved a plan to close the $26-billion-dollar deficit.

Madison blogger-in-chief Dave Cieslewicz paid tribute to veteran city engineer Larry Nelson -- who retired last week after 43 years with the city -- by writing: "Larry doesn't leave big shoes to fill.

Police are looking for two suspects who rolled up and unloaded a fire extinguisher on a group of men standing outside a restaurant in Artesia on Monday.