Lynwood News

Dean Jeffries, one of Hollywood's preeminent automotive sculptors and engineers, died Sunday, May 5, at his home.

Four physician informaticists and the leader of a health information exchange have been named winners of the 2013 annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics given by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the organization for physician informaticists has announced.

Seven years after an NBC4 I-Team expose prompted Jiffy Lube to apologize for cheating customers and to promise "system wide changes," the I-Team has uncovered what insiders say are new tricks and tactics to get your money, some in apparent violation of the law.

It has been said flamboyant cars and movie stars were made for each other and Dean Jeffries was the man with the talent to combine the two for the big screen.

Sidewalks, the graves of pioneers who were Whittier's founders and mobile apps were on the minds of City Council members at their budget meeting earlier this week.

Dean Jeffries, the car customizer who created the "Monkeemobile" for The Monkees TV show, "Black Beauty" for The Green Hornet and who painted two famous words on actor James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder, died last weekend at his Hollywood home.

When chemistry teacher Lynwood Givens told a few friends this past August that the high school where he teaches would convert totally to Apple iPads for the 2012-13 school year, all were skeptical.

Dean Jeffries, who created some of the most fun and wild custom cars of the last half century, has died.

Dean Jeffries was perhaps most famous for the Mantaray, a bubble-topped creation built around a Maserati chassis and a Cobra engine.

The man who painted the first Cobra and built the Monkeemobile, customizing legend Dean Jeffries, has died at the age of 80.

Mary Lou Schmidt, a longtime Downey community icon and leader, passed away on April 24, at the age of 76.

The Moreno Valley High School Ballet Folklorico recently won first and second place at the Southern California Regional USA National Folklorico Competition in Lynwood.

Superior Grocers, one of the largest independent supermarket chains in Southern California, is partnering with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services to promote healthy living and connect the community with CalFresh and nutrition education resources and programs by sponsoring the CalFresh Awareness Month Kick Off Event.

Sheriff's deputies pursued a suspected drunk driver from Compton into Lynwood, where he tried to ram their cruiser with his Ford Mustang, authorities said today.

If you took a notion to listen to Weird Al Yankovic's music chronologically, you'd have a pretty good history of pop culture.