Hawaiian Gardens News

The safe and sane stands will be open for business beginning Wednesday in Lakewood.

A large number of Southland cities are charging high fees for solar panel permits, ignoring a state mandate designed to promote the energy system, according to a survey by the Sierra Club.

Summer school, which was eliminated in Hawaiian Gardens because of state budget cuts facing the ABC Unified School District, is back on schedule for elementary students after the City Council agreed to pick up the tab.

The ABC Unified School District plans to implement furloughs and reduce its school year by one day to cope with reduced state revenue in the 2009-2010 fiscal year.

The late, great, unheralded singer/songwriter/accordion shredder and sometime Orange County resident Chris Gaffney used to say he remembered first meeting with living, great and future Grammy-winning singer/songwriter/guitar shredder and pride of Downey Dave Alvin in an alley next to the late, great and grimy Huntington Beach club the Golden Bear ...

Community activists are calling for neighborhood peace and an end to racial tension between African-Americans and Latinos.

Fifteen years ago, the city officials placed a gate on a street near Long Beach's eastern border with Hawaiian Gardens.

Who's opening the offering envelope? NNPA Editor-in-Chief, Hazel Trice Edney writes~ "The doors of the historic Black Church, a fortress of healing from social pain, have opened even wider during the economic crisis.

A man suspected of shoplifting a 12-pack of socks from a supermarket then pointing a gun at store employees when confronted outside was arrested after holing up in a home that was undergoing renovations, Cypress police said.

In a May 22 story about the role race plays in gang crime, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Robin Toma said he heard anti-immigrant sentiment from black residents in the Hawaiian Gardens area after a gang sweep.

Obama's complaints. Obama wanted to be president, and now his constant complaining is appalling.

A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate the city's black residents through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed late last week.

LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities were investigating Tuesday how they apparently misidentified a retired chef as an alleged heroin dealer and arrested him during a huge raid on a Southern California street gang.

As Ramon Huerta stood shirtless and shivering in the front yard of the Pico Rivera house he's called home for more than four decades, the 64-year-old retired chef struggled to comprehend the questions being shouted by the heavily armed police who began pounding on his front door sometime before dawn.

That was sure to grab attention, but details buried in the court documents were bound to touch a raw nerve: One of the Latino gang's primary motivations was hatred of Black residents.

Five indictments charged a total of 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and federal and local agencies arrested 63 of them by early Thursday, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said at a news conference.

A four-year gang investigation touched off by the killing of a sheriff's deputy from El Monte has culminated in "the largest gang takedown in United States history," federal officials said Thursday.

Editor's Note: A federal racketeering investigation culminated Thursday in the arrest of 147 members and associates of a predominantly Latino gang charged with murder, weapons and drug trafficking, and carrying out racially motivated attacks against African Americans to drive them out of a southern California city.

Among the 147 Hawaiian Gardens gang members and associates named in five separate federal indictments, some 49 remained at large Friday, authorities confirmed.

Federal prosecutors called their sweeping indictment of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang the biggest takedown of its kind in U.S. history.