La Puente News

A suspected carjacker fatally shot by a deputy in front of the sheriff's Industry Station was identified today by the coroner's office, more than two weeks after he was killed.

Candidates for California's 49th Assembly District seat will participate in a forum Wednesday, May 30 at East Los Angeles College.

The potent mix of voters that has powered Democratic presidential victories in California for a generation overwhelmingly supports President Barack Obama's bid for re-election, forming a demographic wall blocking Republican Mitt Romney from the biggest pot of electoral votes available in November.

The City Council will hold two special meetings on Tuesday and Thursday to discuss budgets and matters related to the city's redevelopment agency.

Residents who receive trash service from Waste Management are advised that garbage and recycling pickup will be one day later than normal next week because of the Memorial Day holiday.

LA PUENTE - Lois Maben is a self-described bull dog who has made great strides at increasing transparency and accountability at City Hall.

When the redistricting commission finished drawing the new 32nd Congressional District, it appeared as if it was drawn for a Latino and a Democrat.

Baldwin Park police arrested a tow truck driver due to outstanding traffic warrants and improper registration Wednesday after responding to a complaint from a driver whose vehicle was towed, authorities said.

City and Sheriff's officials are reinstating sobriety checkpoints here after more than a year without them, despite objections from two City Councilmen who say the system targets poor people in the community.

Police arrested a Duarte man and man and woman from La Puente Wednesday on suspicion of breaking into a Panorama Drive home.

An Orange County man is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in the deaths of his girlfriend and the couple's two young sons.

Dr. Miles Masatsugu takes Gloria Mejia's blood pressure. Mejia was the first patient seen at East Valley Community Health Center's new Villacorta clinic on May 15.

When someone says "City of La Puente" the thought of films or television productions probably would not be the first thing that comes to mind.

Earlier this week we had a story about 40-year-old Modesto Cabral plowing his Lexus through a cinder block wall and straight into the backyard swimming pool of the Diaz family.

There are some things that haven't changed in auto shop. It's still loud and it's still dominated by teenage boys standing under cars, working with their hands, but in this class, students also stand in front of a computer screen, which displays information, generated by a dynamometer.

Orange detectives today used cadaver dogs to search another landfill for two boys believed murdered by their father, who's also charged with killing their mother.

IRVINE, Calif. - Police say they're searching a second Southern California landfill for the bodies of two boys believed to have been murdered by their father.

A wholesale food production business in the unincorporated Avocado Heights area near La Puente was robbed today, but no one was hurt, authorities said.

Three members of Sonoma's core city staff have been separately honored for outstanding achievements, by three different organizations, in the recent past.

Officials investigate the scene where an allegedly drunken La Puente man crashed his car through a wall and into a swimming pool at Barrydale Street and Orange Avenue in La Puente on the morning of Sunday, May 13, 2012.