Bell Gardens News

Imagine giving a part of your body to someone you have never met. Pico Rivera resident Celia Contreras, a kindergarten teacher at Suva Elementary School in Bell Gardens, recently donated a kidney as part of a "transplant chain." A chain starts with the donation of a kidney to a recipient who has a willing donor who is incompatible with their blood ...

Jun 9, 2009 2:45 am US/Pacific Reporting Glen Walker BELL GARDENS, Calif. 1 of 1 Just hours after she arrived here, Jamie Santana had packed her life away into a U-Haul truck.

Haul is on the loose somewhere out there and it's filled with everything that one family owns.

In Los Angeles County alone, it's estimated 55,000 residents volunteer about 4 million hours in their local cities.

New city manager Charles McNeely and Police Chief Keith Kilmer are scheduled to begin work today.

The Rio Hondo Chapter of the American Red Cross is honoring 11 local individuals and businesses Thursday at its annual "Home Town Heroes" celebration.

With less than a week left in the Riverside City Council race, Ward 4 Councilman Frank Schiavone has outpaced all other candidates in the competition for campaign dollars, campaign finance records show.

An animal control officer had half her thumb severed in an attack by two pit bulls in Bell Gardens.

An animal control officer lost half of her thumb Thursday when she was attacked by a pit bull in Bell Gardens.

According to 33 year veteran gang specialist and retired L.A. Sheriff's Sergeant Richard Valdemar, Mexican drug cartels have infiltrated city councils and political campaigns in many small cities in Los Angeles County.

A traffic stop here April 9 resulted in the discovery of 50 pounds of marijuana hidden inside the tires of a car, police said.

Keith Kilmer, scheduled to become San Bernardino's police chief on June 1, has earned generally positive reviews from community figures in this southeast Los Angeles County city.

Date : Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:13:37 PDT Bell Gardens Sun April 24 2009 Memories of Genocide Alive in Montebello By Elizabeth Hsing-Huei More than 5,000 Armenians arrived in cars festooned in red, blue and orange Armenian flags to a commemoration event held at the Montebello Armenian Genocide monument located at the Quiet Cannon golf course this ...

Futuristic-looking, brick-trimmed buildings infused with state-of-the-art technology are replacing decades-old structures as part of East Los Angeles College's master plan.

Gardening and environmental displays, cleanups, recycling and trash-disposal related programs are on tap in the coming week as area cities mark Earth Day.

L.A. County's jobless rate soared to 11.4 percent in March, the highest level since the end of World War II, according to state figures released Friday morning.

James Garcia of Norwalk took off running when police officers pulled his car over southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

A suspected gunman in the slaying of a 26-year-old Fontana man was behind bars Tuesday after Bell Gardens police spotted him standing in front of his house.

This season: It was a banner year for the 15-5-3 Oilers, who won their first Almont League title since 2005 over bitter rival and highly-ranked Bell Gardens.

A neighbor, awake in the middle of the night, was able to alert authorities to a burglary that led to three arrests Thursday morning, police said.