Gardena News

What do you picture when you think about hot rod activity from the Fifties? Dusty dragstrips with leaping flagmen? Stripped down roadsters tearing across a dry lake? If your mind conjures up images of dragstrips and dry lakes, you're in good company.

Yoshinoya America Inc. is based in Torrance. They are best-known for their beef bowls as well as their chicken/beef combo bowl.

Dr. Fereidun Shokatfard, who was the brainchild of the book project, "Colors of Love and Peace," joins students from 186th Street School onstage at the Queen Mary in Long Beach.

Blues legend B.B. King's sister, Cora King, died Monday in Los Angeles. She lived in Gardena, Calif., and was 70.

Moments after he tearfully apologized to his victim's family, a Compton man was sentenced Friday to spend 13 years in prison for running a red light and killing another motorist in Carson.

Councilman Steve Bradford talked about his candidacy for the state 51st Assembly District seat recently vacated by Curren Price Jr., who was elected to the state Senate, at Tuesday night's council meeting.

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MRS. Faye Garriott of Gardena, California, has chewing gum all over her walls but she doesn't mind.

The Free Wheelchair Mission has partnered with El Pollo Inka restaurants in Torrance, Lawndale and Gardena to raise donations to supply 1,100 chairs to Peruvians in need.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has scheduled a Sept. 1 special election to fill a Los Angeles-area state Assembly seat.

The Board of Trustees of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science named Dr.

A woman's car plowed into the side of a sheriff's patrol car in Compton and the motorist was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Saturday, a sergeant said.

Mitchell Marien, a 23-year-old white man, was shot and killed on Thursday, May 28, by an off-duty Gardena police officer in 17800 block of Lakewood Boulevard in Bellflower, authorities said.

A motorist who allegedly backed into a Gardena parking officer's vehicle and led police on a chase today was arrested when he crashed near an elementary school, police said.

Miriam Dwinell received a $100 citation when for having a non-permitted yard sale in front of her Gardena home.

The Network for a Healthy California-Los Angeles Region has several food demos scheduled for June.

Courthouse News Service reports today that J.D. Salinger is suing an anonymous writer, pseudonym J.D. California, over a book entitled 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye , which is slated for September 9 publication and bills itself as a sequel to the reclusive Salinger's classic The Catcher in the Rye .

When is the Gardena Municipal Bus Lines going to move into its new facility at 139th Street and Western Avenue? Also, the name on the sign outside the facility says Gardena Transit Administration.

J.D. Salinger is taking another fan to court. The 90-year-old creator of "The Catcher in the Rye," as protective of his work as he is of his privacy, is seeking an injunction against the writer, publishers and distributor of a spinoff of the author's famous novel.

A vehicle crashed into a building in Gardena, a fire department dispatcher said today.