Westmont News

The deputies were investigating suspected plans for a gang-related shooting when they stopped a vehicle near Normandie Avenue and 105th Street about 8:30 p.m. Monday, said Deputy Jeff Gordon of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau.

A search is underway in the unincorporated Westmont area for at least two suspects who exchanged gunfire with Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies during a traffic stop.

A man was gunned down and killed this evening in an unincorporated neighborhood near South Los Angeles, authorities said.

A man who was shot and killed in Westmont has been identified as 43-year-old James Harvey Jones.

Deputies sought information on Wednesday about shootings that left four people wounded, two critically, in unincorporated Westmont, close to South Los Angeles.

Four people were shot in the Westmont area of South Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon.

Westmont theater arts professor John Blondell scours central and eastern Europe every summer, producing plays of his own with Lit Moon Theatre Company and searching for the best in inventive new performance-based theater to bring back for his annually alternating World Theatre and Shakespeare festivals.

Neighbors say it's the apparent normality of the man accused of stalking and secretly videotaping an ESPN reporter Erin Andrews that's made his arrest so upsetting.

The unemployment rate in Westmont is 23.6%, but people are doing what they can to get by in trying times.

Westmont College leaped 19 spots in this year's ranking of the best liberal arts colleges, according to U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges, 2010 Edition." Of the nation's 266 liberal arts colleges, Westmont finished at 92.

The federal grant, which requires matching funds from Westmont, is highly competitive.

Jasmine Granados, a 19-month-old Latina toddler, was found dead after firefighters were summoned about 2:50 a.m. Saturday, August 8 to a residence in the 1200 block of West 93rd Street in an unincorporated area near Westmont, officials said.

Homicide detectives areinvestigating the death of a 2-year-old girl whose body was foundabout2:50 a.m. in the 1200 block of West 93rd street in the unincorporated Westmont area.

Homicide detectives areinvestigating the death of a 2-year-old girl whose body was foundabout2:50 a.m. in the 1200 block of West 93rd street in the unincorporated Westmont area.

Homicide detectives areinvestigating the death of a 2-year-old girl whose body was foundabout2:50 a.m. in the 1200 block of West 93rd street in the unincorporated Westmont area.

A man surrendered today and was booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run for a suspected street race crash that killed a woman in the Westmont area of South Los Angeles.

A woman was killed tonight when another motorist who may have been street racing smashed into her vehicle in the Westmont area of South Los Angeles, a California Highway Patrol officer said.

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Homicide detectives areinvestigating the death of a 2-year-old girl whose body was foundabout2:50 a.m. in the 1200 block of West 93rd street in the unincorporated Westmont area.

CITY'S EYE ON THE PRIZE: The sprawling Army Reserve center at State Street and Las Positas Road stands empty, waiting for the City of Santa Barbara and the State of California to work out a deal to make it city property.