La Mirada News

The following are candidates running for the 57th Assembly District. Rudy Bermudez , Ian Calderon , Noel Jaimes .

BUENA PARK The salutes and the prayers and the honor guard would all come later.

Closing out Biola University's Year of the Arts, renowned artist Makoto "Mako" Fujimura addressed graduates at the school's spring commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday.

Besides helping freedom-loving citizens of his adopted homeland and countries fighting tyranny, Jang Ho Kim of Placentia was fighting to protect his parents and sister.

The state Fair Political Practices Commission opened an investigation to determine if the state Assembly Latino Caucus illegally funneled money into the Assembly campaign of Democrat Rudy Bermudez.

Affecting commuters driving through La Mirada and Santa Fe Springs, Caltrans will fully close the northbound 5 Freeway between Valley View Avenue and Carmenita Road beginning at midnight Tuesday, and continuing until 5 a.m. Wednesday.

In the last few weeks, cities have received notices from the state that they will not be able to collect hundreds of millions of dollars they loaned to their redevelopment agencies.

In some evangelical Christian denominations, drinking alcohol may be understood theologically, or culturally, as sinful.

The City Council has directed City Attorney Jim Markman to sue and force an illegal medical marijuana dispensary to shut down.

President Obama's endorsement of marriage equality has had far-reaching effects across the nation - potentially even at a conservative evangelical university in La Mirada, CA.

In observance of the upcoming Memorial Day holiday on Monday, May 28, EDCO will not be performing any residential collection services.

A former substitute teacher at Arlie F. Hutchinson Middle School pleaded not guilty Tuesday to sending sexually graphic images to a 13-year-old student.

The 340-ton granite megalith that will be the centerpiece of artist Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass stops on Leffingwell Road in La Mirada on it's way from a Riverside rock quarry to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

APPLE VALLEY About two months after his father died, Casey Parks was looking through some things his dad left in storage and came across a dusty old envelope inscribed with the words "U.S. Treasury Department." "My first thought was, 'Dad forget to tell us about something,'" said Parks, a 44-year-old resident of Apple Valley.

Driver Juan Casas, with Edco Waste and Recycling Services, picks up the trash along Bristol Dr.

Durrell Crockett of Gardena removes his prize dog, Champion World Famous Ultimate 7 Grand, from kennel on Sunday before showing during American Bully Expo at Ontario Convention Center.

The front of the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts on Tuesday May1, 2012.

A Hollywood neighborhood group has sued the city of Los Angeles, saying the Department of Building and Safety allowed a developer to illegally demolish a building on Sunset Boulevard whose facade was supposed to be incorporated into a new condominium and office tower.

Officials at a private Christian university in Southern California held a "family discussion" on Friday after revelations of a community of homosexual students rocked the 100-year-old campus.

Assembly Democratic candidate Ian Calderon was a no-show at Monday's debate. Only former Assemblyman Rudy Bermudez, also a Democrat, and Republican Noel Jaimes, both of La Mirada, attended.