Lennox News

Judging by the 70-and-counting reader comments on the Daily Breeze Web site, the closing of the South Bay's only drive-through bikini coffee shop struck a chord with many local residents.

A gunbattle that wounded a sheriff's deputy and killed a parolee in Lawndale could have been avoided if a state parole officer had arrested the man at his family's request for being under the influence of drugs, his cousin said Wednesday.

In Area Two, which includes Hawthorne, challenger Hugo Rojas came away with 55.8 of the vote, beating incumbent Rudy Salas, who received 44.2 percent.

Deputies sought information on Wednesday about shootings that left four people wounded, two critically, in unincorporated Westmont, close to South Los Angeles.

Favorites of young readers for generations, Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham" are missing from some Los Angeles County libraries.

St. Michael the Archangel was a busy celestial being last week in the City of the Angels.

Prosecutors today charged an alleged serial killer with five additional counts of murder, including charges for the 1986 rape, strangulation and robbery of Claremont resident Adrienne Askew.

A 73-year-old man pleaded not guilty today to charges that he murdered seven women in the Southland in the 1970s and 1980s.

Political activists will meet with Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca today to discuss the department's use of deadly force, a day after he ordered an examination of shootings following the death of an unarmed man in Athens.

Mirroring a statewide trend, South Bay school districts improved on test scores and many exceeded performance goals, according to figures released Tuesday by the California Department of Education.

Dana Malarney and her dog, Dublin, visit the Pier Avenue post office in Hermosa Beach on Wednesday.

L.A. County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man in unincorporated Athens when they thought he was reaching into his waistband for a weapon, a spokesman said today.

Voters cast ballots in the 51st Assembly District on Tuesday - including some firefighters who were able to vote from the front lines of a 127,000-acre brush fire.

Today is election day in the 51st Assembly District, where voters will choose a replacement for Curren Price, who left the Assembly to take the state Senate seat vacated by county Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in communities throughout the district, including Inglewood, Gardena, Hawthorne, Lawndale, Lennox, Del ...

The ranks of the unemployed continued to climb last month, with the jobless rate rising in every South Bay city.

The ranks of the unemployed continued to climb last month, with the jobless rate rising in every South Bay city.

Luis Pierson, a 42-year-old Latino, died July 30 from complications suffered from a beating that took place four days earlier.

Luis Pierson, a 42-year-old Latino, died July 30 from complications suffered from a beating that took place four days earlier.

A South Los Angeles civil rights activist on Sunday asked for a meeting with Sheriff Lee Baca to discuss the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in unincorporated Athens.

Officials say that a motorcyclist hit and killed a female pedestrian Wednesday afternoon in Lennox.