El Monte News

Two months after workers of city-contracted trash-hauler American Reclamation, Inc.

"Plastic bags clog our landfills, clog drainage systems, and litter neighborhoods.

In the last few weeks, cities have received notices from the state that they will not be able to collect hundreds of millions of dollars they loaned to their redevelopment agencies.

Sheriff's deputies arrested two Baldwin Park men -- one of them a wanted parolee -- following a brief car chase Friday, officials said.

Teen parents listen to speakers during Tea for You luncheon at Industry Hills Expo Pavilion on Wednesday.

Pasadena and eight other Southland cities have filed a broad lawsuit against the state's Department of Finance, accusing it of a overreaching its authority in the unwinding of redevelopment agencies and forcing cities to default on loan payments, causing "irreparable damage." To plug the state's budget gap, Gov.

EL MONTE - The body of a man was discovered Thursday morning on the campus a San Gabriel Valley elementary school.

In a rare move , Michael Thomas Gargiulo -the Santa Monica man accused in the stabbing deaths of two Los Angeles women, including an aspiring fashion designer who dated Ashton Kutcher -will represent himself at his murder trial without a lawyer.

Rescue on the s/b 605 Fwy at the Ramona Bl. off-ramp in El Monte where 3 women lost control, flipped over several times, crashed trough the freeway fence, kept rolling to within a few feet of 100 foot steel power poles.

Pasadena Police Department's Foothill Aerial Support Team working with San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control to find filthy swimming pools.

The county Board of Supervisors is expected to vote next month on a proposal to tax homeowners about $54 per parcel to raise funds to treat polluted storm water before it reaches local lakes and beaches.

Share/BookmarkMichael Jaime Becerra, associate professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside, said a sense of place and trust in his characters are the keys to his writing success.

Investigators said two officers, a civilian and the defendant, German Jimenez, were wounded in the May 28, 2010 shootout on Valley Boulevard and Durfee Avenue.

Two challengers are hoping for a chance to unseat incumbent Roger Hernandez, a Democrat who is running for re-election as a representative for the state's 48th Assembly District.

The official UFW store was busy selling merchandise, Saturday, at the Rabobank Convention Center during the United Farm Workers' 50th anniversary convention Guadalupe Martinez, right, talks with UFW volunteer, Pablo Lopez, left, Saturday, at the Rabobank Convention Center during the United Farm Workers' 50th anniversary convention.

The Amgen Tour of California rides Glendora Mountain Road during stage 7 of the bike tour Saturday, May 19, 2012.

Vector ecologists from the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District have positively identified samples of adult mosquitoes and eggs collected from the 1600 block of Millet Avenue in South El Monte as those of the aggressive, daytime biting Asian tiger mosquitoes .

Ricardo Munoz, an agricultural aide for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, sprays pesticide on an orange tree in Hacienda Heights on Tuesday April 9, 2012, a few blocks from where state officials discovered a deadly and incurable citrus disease last month.

The sentencing for the last of three men convicted of slashing a woman's throat and leaving her for dead in Turnbull Canyon in Whittier in 2009 was postponed Wednesday, officials said.

Vincent David Mendoza, 21, of El Monte, was charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, mayhem and assault with a deadly weapon Thursday in an Aug.