Lynwood News

The executive director of a Carson-based battered women's shelter was arrested today for allegedly ordering employees to fraudulently bill the county more than $700,000, prosecutors said.

A booking photo was released Tuesday of a Lynwood man arrested on suspicion of a robbery-assault in December on the Morongo Indian Reservation, a sheriff's sergeant said.

The California Supreme Court says the death penalty is an appropriate sentence for a gang member convicted of shooting to death a Los Angeles sheriff's deputy 17 years ago.

Three men are accused of a series of bank robberies that took place throughout Orange County since October.

Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Mark Pope says 30-year-old Kyle Henderson and 47-year-old Terrance Fair, both of them parolees, and 42-year-old Ischa Criner have been arrested.

Jorge Alvarado, a Good Samaritan shot in the back of the head while trying to stop a robbery in Lynwood, is clinging to life, relatives said Monday.

A man shot Sunday during a Lynwood market hold-up was clinging to life, but was not expected to survive, a sheriff's deputy said.

A motorist who was driving the wrong way on the 710 freeway near Paramount crashed head-on into a marked police car, injuring four people, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday.

Diana Evelyn Ortiz-Soltero, 23, of Lynwood; Angel Andres Gonzalez, 24, of the San Bernardino County town of Helendale; and Saul Hurtado Mercado, 26, no hometown given, were killed in the early-morning crash, Los Angeles county coroner's investigator Joyce Kato said.