El Monte News

Applications for the 2009 Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program must be received by El Monte City Hall's Community Development Housing Division by July 16.

Something familiar flashed in the trees above biologist Dan Cooper's head. He had studied the yellow-billed cuckoo in Kern County in the 1990s.

Three men will likely spend the rest of their lives behind bars for the 2002 slaying of a Baldwin Park teenager whose body was dragged behind a car for miles through Turnbull Canyon.

The police officer who famously kicked a prone suspect in the head was afraid the suspect would attack despite his surrendering position, according to a police report, obtained Monday.

A local water district received two grants totalling $5.5 million out of 27 grants issued for water reclamation and reuse projects nationwide by the Bureau of Reclamation.

Residents have mixed feelings about the city's monarch grizzly bear statue located on the corner of Valley Boulevard and Santa Anita Avenue, which arrived two weeks ago.

The El Monte Airport. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved plans to seek bids for runway and taxiway improvements at two San Gabriel Valley airports.

SOUTH EL MONTE A police helicopter caught three suspects fleeing a home that they are suspected of burglarizing this afternoon, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The three candidates vying for the 32nd congressional district seat will meet again Thursday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., at the American Legion post, 4542 N. Peck Road.

Amidst a big round of applause, El Monte California avoids bankruptcy after police union agrees to cuts .

A Cal Pest Control Services, Inc. owner Arlene Zuniga-Valdez at the El Monte office on June 26.

Monterey Park Councilwoman Betty Chu, who is running for the 32nd Congressional District seat, called a press conference Wednesday to discuss the arrest of a politically connected land developer.

Drained of its reserves and already working with a drastically cut staff, the city is weighing bankruptcy as a way to resolve the fiscal crisis that has plagued it since last year.

Michael Jackson's death Thursday has cast a spotlight on prescription-drug use. Former Jackson lawyer and family friend Brian Oxman said in a television interview Friday that Jackson was taking prescription drugs to deal with pain from a broken back and broken leg, which were getting in the way of his concert rehearsals.

Cities around the state, including several local ones, are squaring up for a legal fight with the state over money.

The city's police officers on Friday offered to give up next year's scheduled 4 percent raise, which they say would help the struggling city reach a balanced budget.

The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into a police officer's actions when he kicked a prone suspect in the head following a police pursuit, officials said Thursday.

Two development executives accused of embezzlement Wednesday resigned from their positions overseeing planning of a $1 billion transit center in El Monte, and legislators said they would return campaign donations from the pair.

EL MONTE, Calif. - Prosecutors have declined to charge two developers of a major El Monte project who were arrested on suspicion of forgery, embezzlement and theft.District attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison says prosecutors asked El Monte police to do further investigation on the case Tuesday.John Leung, president and chief executive of The Titan ...

A developer behind a proposed $1.2 billion project surrounding a transit center in the city of El Monte has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, forgery, embezzlement and grand theft.