El Monte News

The dragon and tiger dance, celebrating the Lunar New Year, is performed at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, Calif.

SANTA ANA - A 36-year-old man who murdered a prostitute in a hotel room near Disneyland was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The city of El Monte continues it's Healthy Bike Program from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Feb.

With the deadline for filing tax returns coming, Rep. Judy Chu, D-El Monte, will begin offering free tax services for families and people with low and moderate incomes Friday at her district office, 4401 Santa Anita Ave.

The City Council is looking to open the lines of communication between the city and its three school districts - Mountain View, El Monte City and El Monte Union.

Dean Zander and Vince Norris of Hendricks & Partners have been selected by Boston- based pension advisor GID to market Windsor at Victoria Heights, a 392-unit community, while Sherman Oaks-based Arbors Land Partners LLC listed the 177-unit Arbors at Arden Way with the team.

But there is some good news. Figures released Tuesday by the Labor Department reveal that the number of available jobs in the United States jumped in December to near a three-year high.

A Monterey Park man who pleaded guilty last year to masterminding a large-scale ecstasy distribution ring was been sentenced Monday to 22 years in prison.

El Monte city staff will make a presentation tonight on how the city can select its two members to a new seven-member oversight board charged with overseeing the city's redevelopment activities.

Many Asian American families are preparing to grow in the Year of the Dragon, which according to centuries-old tradition is a particularly promising year to have a child.

The city is poised bring an In-N-Out Burger to a vacant property on Santa Anita Avenue, adjacent to the 10 freeway.

Care Rite Vocational Services, in the city of Murrieta, in association with the Rotary Club of Murrieta, plans to organise a Valentine's Day dance and dinner - based on theme of "Lasting Love". The particularly heart-warming aspect of the event is that the dance and dinner evening is for special-needs couples! This will be the ninth such event and ... (more)

Cooks prepare school lunches for all of the El Monte School District's schools at its Central Kitchen in El Monte on Thursday, Feb.

Fundraising data for Rep. David Dreier, R-San Dimas, from the last quarter of last year suggests he's likely to retire this year, according to local political analysts.

The nation's employment sector continued to gain traction in January with 243,000 jobs added - far more than the 155,000 jobs economists were expecting.

Sentencing was postponed Friday in the case of a 23-year-old El Monte man convicted in the 2009 attempted murder of a Bellflower woman, who was injected, had her throat slashed, was stabbed and beaten before she was tossed over the edge of Turnbull Canyon and left for dead.

The El Monte Coalition for Latino Professionals are putting together a local event Feb.

California State Senator Ronald Calderon has thrown in the towel in his bid to unseat Rep.

Despite backlash from residents, the City Council Tuesday gave a halfway house operator the green light to allow 15 more federal pre-release inmates to move into its Ramona Boulevard facility.

More than a year and $1.7 million in renovations later, the Department of Motor Vehicles West Covina office will reopen its doors Monday.