Whittier News

On Friday, Mayor Bob Henderson sent a letter to the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court urging him to begin the process re-opening the courthouse.

In what's being called a progressive step for Downey, PIH Health has agreed to assume management responsibilities of all day-to-day operations at Downey Regional Medical Center, officials announced Tuesday.

Because when we head out the door, the car's in the driveway, in between the house and everything else.

Tony Castillo sometimes worked 12-hour days when his children were growing up, but he always had time for his five children.

A roadside memorial at the scene of a head-on collision that killed two boys only hours after their elementary school graduation, as well as a man who was driving the car, on San Gabriel River Parkway, just south f Rose Hills Road in Industry on Thursday, June 13, 2013.

Farce is an art form all its own. It demands a particular kind of rhythm, both from the performers and from the playwright.

The victims in Thursday's Pico Rivera crash have now been identified. Two boys and a man died in the accident and four others involved in the crash were hospitalized.

Whittier officials say money may be available in the state budget to re-open the Whittier Courthouse and the mayor has sent a letter to the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court asking him to begin the process.

The $7 million exercise emporium will be located at the site of a former Chrysler-Plymouth auto dealership on the south side of the 13800 block of Whittier Boulevard between Barton Road and Jacmar Avenue.

A 23-year-old Downey man was killed Saturday after his motorcycle struck two vehicles near Paramount Boulevard and Phlox Street, authorities said.

The Ontario/Chaffey Community Show Band will present its final concert of the 2013 season, "Disney Razzle Dazzle" on Monday, but it will also mark another special event.

Anybody who's ever eaten pizza understands the last slice quandary, in which you're left wondering whether you should really, really eat one more slice.

After listening to a long line of residents complain late into the night about a proposed water rate increase, the Whittier City Council backed off and OK'd a lower rate hike than what was proposed in a public notice sent to property owners in April.

Students and their families attend the 112th Whittier High School Commencement at Whittier College in Whittier on Wednesday June 12, 2013.

Twenty-one years ago, then-Assemblyman Charles Calderon helped then-Norwalk Councilwoman Grace Napolitano get elected to the state Assembly, but now there's no love lost between Napolitano and the Calderons.

Police arrested a man Tuesday after he stole a charity donation box containing about $2 from the Rocky Cola Cafe in Uptown Whittier, then pushed a witness who chased him, authorities said.

Police arrested a man Tuesday after he stole a charity donation box containing about $2 from the Rocky Cola Cafe in Uptown Whittier, then pushed a witness who chased after him, authorities said.

Three public school districts along the 60-Freeway corridor are getting new superintendents this coming school year -- Walnut Valley, Rowland and Hacienda La Puente unified school districts.

Nineteen Whittier Union High School District seniors each recently earned a 2,000 industrial and technical arts scholarship provided by the Dorothy P. and Howard D. Hunter Foundation based in Santa Fe Springs.

Randy Miller, second from left, was elected president of the Rio Hondo Symphony Association on June 1, 2013, at First Friends Church in Whittier.