Cudahy News

Michael Kodama has been named the new Executive Director of the Orangeline Development Authority, according to Orangeline Chairman Bruce Barrows and Vice Chair and Santa Clarita Councilmember Marsha McLean.

CUDAHY, Calif. - Authorities say a Cudahy City Councilman was fired on and his brother was hit and injured after the two chased a car full of taggers who had just vandalized the councilman's liquor store.

The Maywood City Council has agreed to overhaul its police department after allegations of widespread misconduct and brutality in the tiny Los Angeles suburb.

The vehicle of a Cudahy City Councilman was sprayed with bullets and his brother was hit and injured after the two men chased a car full of vandals who had just scrawled graffiti on the councilman's liquor store, authorities said Tuesday.

Things didn't go so well when a southland councilmember, Osvaldo Conde and his brother Eric, along with 2 other family members tried to take matters into their own hands.

A small police department that patrols two gritty cities engaged in widespread use of unlawful force and routinely lacked probable cause to justify arrests and searches, the state attorney general said Tuesday.

Jose Briseno, a 20-year-old Latino, was shot several times in the 4800 block of Elizabeth Street in Cudahy on Friday, March 27, 2009, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

The nation's largest food drive to combat hunger will be conducted this year on Saturday, May 9. On that day, letter carriers will collect donations of non-perishable food placed near mail boxes along their delivery routes.

The old man looks nervous. I can't say that I blame him. We're sitting in the back of a stretched Escalade limousine, surrounded by somber men in dark suits and sunglasses.

Southeast Los Angeles County, which has struggled for years with public corruption investigations and bruising politics, is emerging from Tuesday's municipal elections with a pair of black eyes.

Officials in eight of Los Angeles County's smaller cities were breathing sighs of relief Wednesday after voters in Tuesday's local elections approved measures to ease municipal finance concerns.

In a follow to her audit of City Hall gang programs a year ago, Controller Laura Chick says there is still a long ways to go.

Police look the other way as guns, Molotov cocktails and vandalism mark the last weeks of Cudahy's campaign season The images are grainy, but surveillance video from the night of October 26, 2008, is clear ...