La Puente News

San Gabriel Valley cities are at the high and the low ends of a county assessor's office report released Thursday that shows the county's overall property value fell by $1 billion in the last fiscal year.

A local water district received two grants totalling $5.5 million for water reclamation and reuse projects nationwide by the Bureau of Reclamation.

Police rescued a La Puente teenager who plunged 40 feet while hiking in Schabarum Park, officials said.

A local man combined two of his passions - lowrider cars and Michael Jackson's music - to create a one-of-a-kind four-wheeled tribute to the "King of Pop" in the form of a 1973 Ford Thunderbird.

Daytime burglaries, armed robberies and vehicle break-ins are up as much as 700 percent in areas and cities patrolled by the sheriff's Industry Station, officials said.

At 80 years young, everything is coming up roses for owner Jim Coiner. He along with his son James, operations manager, and John Mellon, general manager, run Coiner Nursery, which boasts operations in Wasco, Calif.

Officials responded to reports of a shooting Wednesday but were unable to find a victim, authorities said.

The county on Tuesday renewed a $150,000 reward for information that helps detectives catch whoever killed 15-year-old Schurr High School student Brenda Sierra seven years ago.

Sheriff's Deputy Rico Rivera considers kids in middle school to be "on the fence." "They could either go right or they could go wrong," Rivera said.

A teenage girl who allegedly drove a car with her young daughter in the back as a teenage boy passenger carried out a drive-by shooting was in jail Saturday, authorities said.

A man was flown to the hospital in critical condition and a suspect was behind bars Friday after an apparent gang-related shooting, authorities said.

Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey says determining the cause of Michael Jackson's death will require further neuropathology and pulmonary tests that will take four to six weeks.

All city employees will take a 15 percent pay cut beginning Wednesday, unless officials can strike another deal with the employees union.

A power vacuum in the local gang structure may be contributing to a wave of violence sweeping through neighborhoods in the tiny unincorporated community of Bassett.

Sheriff's deputies arrested four men this morning in connection with a drive-by shooting that occurred at 6:50 a.m. today, officials said.

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis got a job Monday - painting the side of a house in East L.A. But it's those who don't have jobs these days who are weighing heavily on her mind.

A 24-year-old La Puente man was shot and killed early Sunday morning in what police say may have been a gang-related attack.

A man was shot to death early Sunday in a what authorities believe to be a gang-related attack in a residential neighborhood.

Mayor Louie Lujan blamed politics and unintentional errors on a campaign finance form for a search of his home by investigators from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

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