Gardena News

Carson. Sheriff's deputies will conduct a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint from 7 tonight to 3 a.m. Saturday at a location to be determined.

Cal State Dominguez is putting on a production titled "Lunch," based on stories shared by local eighth-graders on what's important in their lives.

Volunteers hope to collect more than 8 million shoe box gifts by Thanksgiving. In 2003, children braved a New York blizzard to collect shoe boxes.

The company, which owns several high capacity tensile testing machines from Tinius Olsen, a premier materials testing machine manufacturer, decided to retrofit its 120,000 and 600,000 lbs models with all-new digital control to match its new 400,000 lbs model.

Carroll Shelby Engine Company, owned by Carroll Shelby who founded Carroll Shelby International Inc., has expanded its line of services at its Southern California location to include performance tuning and rebuilding of Ford V8 motors.

Q: We are being vilified by a former customer who is posting very hostile reviews about our business online.

Crenshaw Boulevard was blocked off from 135th Street to Rosecrans Avenue all afternoon and into the evening as SWAT officers tried to persuade a suspect hiding in a 99-cent store to come out.

Investigations were under way on Tuesday into a shooting involving Gardena police resulting from a carjacking at the Gardena-Hawthorne border, authorities said.

An apparent carjacking ended with an officer-involved shooting Monday in Hawthorne, and authorities surrounded a business where a suspect was believed to be hiding.

Homelessness appears to have dropped dramatically in the last two years. In the South Bay region - which includes Long Beach - 500 fewer people are living on the streets than in 2007, a reduction of about 11 percent, according to the 2009 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count.

Children will no longer be allowed to visit patients at most South Bay hospitals due to strict new rules enacted to stem the spread of swine flu.

Altegrity, Inc. - the global screening and security solutions provider - announced today the close of its acquisition of John D. Cohen, Inc., a contract provider of national security policy guidance and counsel to the federal government.

The owners of a Gardena maid service were taken into custody after failing to comply with a court order to pay $3.5 million in back wages plus interest, fines and liquidated damages to more than 385 workers.

The Carroll Shelby Engine Company owned by Mr. Shelby is now offering certified performance rebuilds and tuning of Ford V-8 motors for a limited number of customers who own small block Windsor, 351 C and big block FE engines.

For almost a year there's been a building facade located on Henrietta Street one block north of Torrance Boulevard.

A 15-year-old boy admitted to police Thursday that he sprayed graffiti in black-and-white paint on six classrooms and two storage containers at a Gardena elementary school, authorities said.

Pushing aside the threat of lawsuits and complaints about the process, Los Angeles Unified officials today will begin finalizing a controversial reform plan that allows the outside operation of three dozen schools.

If our readers could see us now, they would likely wonder why we are buried under a pile of paper.

Gardena City Council members will vote Tuesday night on a plan to toughen laws against graffiti vandals by attacking the problem from different angles.

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