La Puente News

A business owner embroiled in a legal battle with the city said he lodged an ethics complaint against the mayor because he believes officials want to take over his bar before a proposed NFL stadium is built.

Felony charges have been filed against a 24-year-old Marine on inactive reserve who shot and killed a Bestway Market worker on Feb.

MY father was a postman for 25 years. I am a journalist going on 30 years. Both of us - you might say - worked in the business of information movement.

A La Puente man is in custody for allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend with a broken beer bottle during a fight Tuesday night.

El Monte High School doesn't offer shop class anymore. It doesn't have drafting classes or mechanics, or really any school-day opportunities to use tools.

In a lot of ways, San Jacinto is much like any other town in the San Gabriel Valley.

Here are the first playoff pairings issued by the CIF-Southern Section. Look for updates all week as the post-season in tennis, golf, volleyball, water polo and cross country gets underway.

About 16 mothers from Bassett Unified schools visited Sunkist Elementary in La Puente Tuesday morning to pick up clothes and other household items.

Family members and friends on Tuesday mourned the loss of a 21-year-old community college student who died Sunday night when the van in which she was riding overturned in Kern County.

Because flu viruses mutate, the latest strain - the H1N1 - is more likely to make children sick than adults because their young bodies haven't generated the necessary antibodies to fight it off.

To tiny Theresa Chabolla Cervantes, there were no barriers. The La Puente native and longtime resident always stood strong and tall for her children and others around her, as much as she could with her 5'2" figure.

Choral and drama students will offer their first combined production of "Grease" at Nogales High School in La Puente from Nov.

Visit our special section for complete election coverage . LA PUENTE - After a confrontation between Bassett Unified Superintendent Jim Ballard and school board challenger Art Sandoval during Tuesday's election, the two said they are "Everybody has their duty to do and their responsibility to exercise," Ballard said Wednesday.

Challenger David Argudo and Mayor Louie Lujan won two seats in the City Council election Tuesday.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies were sent to several polling locations across the city Tuesday after receiving calls of election code violations, officials said.

San Gabriel Valley voters will take to the polls Tuesday to elect City Council candidates and school board members capping weeks of contentious campaigning.

A car coming out of a restaurant parking lot struck a pickup truck which collided with a school bus Monday afternoon.

LOCAL elections are being held today throughout the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas in our community college districts, in races for school boards and for city councils.

Get the scoop on schools, teachers and students. Visit our Education page for more articles and photos.

After hearing news of his wife at Fontana Medical Center on Oct. 18, Eddie Medina was a mess of emotions.