El Monte News

The unemployment rate in every city in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier area either went down or stayed flat last month for the first time in the several months, according to state numbers released Friday.

Mark Twain once said, "whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over." Indeed, this has been true, from Mulholland diverting flows from the Owens Valley to L.A. to local water wars involving the vast underground San Gabriel Basin.

City workers dropped their cement tools and took down two suspected burglars Tuesday.

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a trio of men with baseball bats who threatened and robbed three people last week.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman told a group of supporters Tuesday that she is making an unprecedented effort to attract Latinos to the Republican party.

A 13-year-old El Monte boy accused of starting the Morris Fire denied two criminal counts against him Wednesday in Pomona Court, officials said.

Foothill Transit will hold a public information meeting at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at the El Monte Station Conference Room, 3449 Santa Anita Ave.

Standing at the aging El Monte Bus station, looking out at the sea of worn parking spaces, it may be hard to imagine what city officials envision for the area - a village of condominiums, stores, office buildings, and a state-of-the-art bus station.

A Compton man faces murder charges in the slaying of a 20-year-old man whose body was discovered in August near a walking trail in the Shadow Oak neighborhood, officials said Thursday.

A member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Health Hazmat Division leaves with a bag of evidence from inside the IRS building at 9350 Flair Drive in El Monte on Thursday, Nov.

Three suspected teenage burglars attracted the suspicion of neighbors Wednesday afternoon when they carried a television out of a house and placed it inside a waiting car.

A package containing a mysterious substance that turned out to be foot powder prompted hundreds of people to evacuate a building in El Monte on Thursday.

Investigators on Tuesday identified a suspect in the killing of a man at an employment agency.

An alleged gang member linked to three recent killings made his first court appearance Tuesday since his arrest over the weekend.

A man was fatally stabbed early Sunday in El Monte, authorities said. Few details were initially released about the incident, which was reported just after 3 a.m. in the 11100 block of Bonwood Road, Los Angeles county sheriff's officials said.

Investigators are trying to determine whether a man arrested over the weekend for one killing may be linked to two other slayings.

Authorities say a car chase in Pomona led to the arrest of a 32-year-old murder suspect, and subsequent questioning led to the discovery of another body.

Police arrested a man early Sunday they believe stabbed and killed a 17-year-old boy during an argument, authorities said.

Police and sheriff's detectives Sunday were investigating the fatal stabbing of a man in El Monte.

The first wagon train to use the Santa Fe Trail arrived in what became El Monte in 1849.