Whittier News

Members of the San Gabriel Valley-based American Chinese Culture Association rehearse a fan and waist drum dance in Alhambra, Saturday, June 20, 2009.

Wendelyn Davio, an assistant principal at Waite Middle School in Norwalk, has been named the new principal for the upcoming school year at Murphy Ranch Elementary School, one of 13 campuses in the East Whittier City School District.

An elderly woman was injured in a car accident that snarled early holiday weekend traffic late Thursday morning.

The city's police department will be stepping up patrols and taking a "zero tolerance" approach toward illegal firework activity this Independence Day.

Members of Old School Riders are trying to pick up the pieces just days after three of their fellow riders were killed by unknown gunmen at a local pizza restaurant.

Erika Maldonado won't soon forget what she learned from the San Gabriel Valley Small Business Development Center.

Whittier Hospital, 9080 Colima Road, is currently seeking volunteers. Volunteering at the hospital is a fulfilling way to give back to your community.

It was like any other first birthday party. There were treats, games and well-wishes. But the first birthday celebrated Saturday at Parnell Park was not for a child.

The Audio-Visual Department at the Whittier Public Library, 7344 Washington Ave., will open at noon effective July 1. The library is open Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m. and the Audio-Visual Department will open daily at noon with closing hours remaining the same.

State officials said Wednesday that the now-closed Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility will be released for private development.

The mother of the California octuplets, Nadya Suleman, is the focus of a new art display in Whittier, California.

Back in February, the world's media converged on Whittier hoping to get a glimpse of octuplets mother Nadya Suleman and her 14 children.

Read more on business and the economy in the San Gabriel Valley, Whittier and beyond at our Economic Alert blog .

A judge on Friday denied a woman's request to be released early from county jail, where she is serving a one-year sentence for killing a 15-year-old pedestrian.

The Major Keys Square Dance Club's regular fourth Saturday of the month dance will not be held on June 27.

A Whittier High School graduate high-fives Gladys Whitaker-White, 94, after she received her high school diploma during the school's commencement ceremony Thursday, June 18, 2009 in their school's Vic Lopez Auditorium.

For the first time ever, three Whittier-area high schools have been named to Newsweek magazine's annual list of the country's top public high schools.

A Vons store in Whittier was named a top fundraising store during Safeway Inc.'s April charity campaign to benefit people with disabilities.

Authorities identified the decomposing body found in a parked car this week as a missing woman who had been convicted of child abuse and was facing a return to county jail for violating probation.

The current economic condition has meant an increased need for food and a decrease in funding for the Interfaith Food Bank in Whittier.