Lakewood News

Some were honored for arresting armed suspects and rescuing people, while others earned kudos for being good Samaritans.

Employing stimulus funding to create nearly 8,000 temporary jobs and supporting millions in infrastructure projects in the Greater Long Beach and South Bay area are key to combating the county's double-digit unemployment rate, Los Angeles County Board Supervisor Don Knabe said Wednesday.

Voters in Long Beach Unified and a few other area school districts go to the polls today.

Q:I want to make a pumpkin pie using a fresh pumpkin. How do I prepare the pumpkin? Linda Walker, Lakewood, Calif.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's station in Lakewood, Calif. is hosting a A'Haunted JailA' complete with costume characters, food and games.

Francisco Lozano, owner of with Brulee, a restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach, with his daughter Nicole Lozano, left, and wife Donna Lozano.

The Long Beach Group of the Sierra Club today urged Mayor Bob Foster and the LB City Council to do all they can to convince Tesla Motors to locate its new automobile plant in the city.

I am searching for a son given for adoption about 1967. The adoption was through an attorney in Lakewood Ca.

Lakewood. Two new businesses in Lakewood will host grand openings in the coming weeks, according to the Greater Lakewood Chamber of Commerce.

Joycelyn Dykstra of Bellflower asks her son Kevin, 38, of Lakewood, for a kiss after he bowled a strike.

Los Angeles Crenshaw has had one of the toughest out of conference schedules, if not the toughest, in the Los Angeles City Section and they came out of it unscathed.

Three men who had been in a speeding, stolen sport utility vehicle were arrested after apparently causing a three-car collision in Bellflower that left two children critically injured today.

Lakewood Mayor Todd Rogers, left, City Manager Howard Chambers and Councilman Steve Croft join about 130 golfers for the Lakewood Foundation's second golf tournament and fundraiser Aug.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office decided to file charges in adult court against a 17-year-old football star who had previously been charged in juvenile court with two counts of attempted murder and assault with a firearm.

A 70-year-old man was reunited Monday night at Artesia City Hall with the Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and fire department paramedics who saved his life.

Three robbers held up a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Lakewood and led law enforcement officers on a chase into Long Beach, where they were arrested early this morning, authorities said.

To mark the city's place in space-travel history, the City Council may rename a section of Clark Avenue in honor of the Columbia space shuttle and its crew.

Marty Frear is very happy to have curbside recycling in Lakewood now. Frear and her husband, Rob, used to collect their recyclables on the side of their house in containers and take them to Cal State Long Beach every six weeks in an effort to be environmentally friendly.

An expansion of Lakewood Regional Medical Center's cardiac-care program will help patients keep their blood flowing.

Fifth-graders at Gompers Elementary School in Lakewood create a graphic in a park to show where they visited as virtual rain drops heading for the ocean.