Bell News

Michael Kodama has been named the new Executive Director of the Orangeline Development Authority, according to Orangeline Chairman Bruce Barrows and Vice Chair and Santa Clarita Councilmember Marsha McLean.

The man accused of murdering his boss and a fellow co-worker at a Vernon lumber yard pleaded not guilty to murder Tuesday.

Pitchess Detention Center's North Facility will remain open for now, according to a Sheriff's Department spokesman.

Herman Bell made the plea in San Francisco Superior Court, just a week before the start of a preliminary hearing for him and six co-defendants in the death of Sgt.

Despite the approval of Los Angeles County's budget last week, officials are bracing for more fiscal bloodletting once the state resolves its own budgetary woes - and local social services are expected to suffer.

Dear Mexican: You once asked why Mexican bands don't hit it big in the good old US of A. I think the simple answer is that there are no Mexican Mouseketeers.

June 18 - The 47th annual Industrial Barbecue and competitive cookoff is planned by the Chico Chamber of Commerce.

Illegal dumping and museum oversight are some of the issues that will be raised at Tuesday's meeting of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

After narcotics investigators discovered a methamphetamine 'super lab' at a rental unit owned by the city of Bell's mayor last week, arresting two men, confiscating two small children and barrels of hazardous materials used in cooking the narcotic, Mayor Oscar Hernandez said, 'These things happen around the town.

Authorities on Saturday identified two suspects, one of whom is now dead, in the catastrophic Old Fire, which led to six deaths and destroyed nearly 1,000 homes in October 2003.

Resident Howard Waffle said he didn't like the price jump of unleaded gasoline to $3 per gallon.

Investigators found a methamphetamine "super lab" during a raid Saturday on a property owned by the mayor of a Los Angeles suburb.

The seven defendants are accused of staging an attack on San Francisco's Ingleside Police Station Aug.

Authorities say two men are behind bars and two children have been placed in protective custody after a large methamphetamine lab was found during a raid at a rental property owned by Bell Mayor Oscar Hernandez.

The ghosts of San Francisco's violent past return Monday morning, as seven men - all in their late 50s and early 60s - go before a preliminary hearing in connection with the shotgun slaying of a police officer 38 years ago.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies raided a house Saturday morning on property owned by the mayor of Bell.

Health-care officials are split over the Community Choice Act, a federal bill designed to open up more long-term health-care options for the elderly and disabled.

California's budget is going under the knife, with Sacramento legislators wanting to slash, or eliminate, services.

Bell, 34, is accused of using the online classified-ad site to lure car buyers, who were told to bring cash, to upscale East Bay neighborhoods - then jumping out of the bushes in a ski mask and robbing them at gunpoint.

City of Santa Clarita residents will get local representation when the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District decides whether to raise sewer rates on May 26.