Bell Gardens News

"I don't discuss my personal finances," Tony Garcia says, sitting in his spacious photography studio on Melrose Avenue.

After being a runner-up last year, the city has been named a Most Business Friendly City for municipalities with a population less than 60,000. The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

The coroner's department identified a man and woman Monday who were shot to death in a parking lot, as police continue to follow leads.

Officials Monday identified a man and woman who were shot to death in a parking lot in Santa Fe Springs.

Authorities said they found 1,300 pounds of marijuana when they raided an Ontario home on Wednesday.

Looking at the Ponzi schemes that are Medicare and Social Security, I've often wondered which generation of Americans will get stuck with the tab when the programs go totally broke.

Allen Ruiz, a 16-year-old Latino, was shot and killed Saturday, Oct. 31, in the 6000 block of Gotham Street in Bell Gardens , according to Los Angeles County coroner's officials.

Here is a round-up of some of the biggest Halloween Parades taking place across the United States on Halloween, October 31st.

Agnes Bratton, a 79-year-old white woman, sustained a blunt-force head injury and died Sunday, Oct.

A woman was found dead of blunt force trauma and her son was found injured with self inflicted injuries in what police believe was a failed murder-suicide. The body of an elderly woman was found brutally beaten in her home around 10:15 a.m. today in the 6300 block of Gotham Street in Bell Gardens, said sheriff's Deputy Lilliam Peck.

A 79-year-old woman was found dead today with her son nearby suffering from apparent self-inflicted injuries, sheriff's deputies said.

For a photo gallery of additional views of the Valley Center house designed by Cliff May, go to uniontrib.com/more/cliffmay DETAILS What: Valley Center historic home tour When: Oct.

Nearly 300 gang members and associates were arrested in the Los Angeles area in the last six months as part of a nationwide crackdown that targeted gangs involved in cross-border smuggling of people and weapons, drug trafficking, identity theft and other crimes, authorities said Thursday.

THE Montebello Unified School District is quite large, encompassing 18 elementary schools, six intermediate schools, three high schools, one continuation school and four adult schools.

Ricardo Lara, of Bell Gardens, is seeking the 50th Assembly seat currently held by Hector De La Torre, who will be termed out of office next June.

Finalists were named today for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.'s Most Business-Friendly City in L.A. County Award.

Last Sunday, when Cardinal Roger Mahony asked parishioners of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to stand up if they had been at the Downey parish since its founding in 1909, everyone laughed and no one stood up.

Federal agents have arrested nine men in a drug and weapons trafficking probe involving a South Los Angeles street gang.

It is 8:30 a.m. on a Sunday. Along streets of grimy stucco bungalows with bougainvillea, American flags and "Beware of Dog" signs on chain-link fences, a couple of residents are hosing down lawns, the Los Angeles Times reports.

A man killed in drive-by shooting over the weekend was identified Monday as 20-year-old Jefte Hurtado.