Pico Rivera News

A Pico Rivera gang member was arrested for the murder of a Los Angeles man killed at a Hesperia Halloween party.

The District Attorney's Office charged the son of a city councilman with petty theft Thursday for allegedly offering to pay three others to steal campaign signs belonging to his father's political opponent.

Community members are invited to visit the city of Pico Rivera's newest recreation facility: the Pico Rivera Batting Cages, 9530 Shade Lane.

Samantha Rivera, kindergartener at Magee Elementary School; Tania Martinez, fourth-grader at Rivera Elementary School and Natalie Meneses, seventh-grader at Burke Middle School were winners of the County of Los Angeles Public Library Bookmark Contest held by the Rivera Library.

City council and school board seats are up for grabs, and voter have several ballot measures to consider in Tuesday's elections.

The Planning Commission on Monday night voted unanimously for a zoning change that would permit check-cashing businesses to open no less than a half-mile apart from each other.

The baby-faced teenager walking home from school wearing a black backpack looked like any other high school student.

An argument between neighbors apparently led to three people being stabbed early Friday.

Robert Perez was out riding his bike Friday, but like a line of cars behind him, he got stuck on Passons Boulevard at Slauson Avenue when a freight train stopped on the tracks ahead.

About 100 girls play softball at Rio Vista Park, and those numbers will double in the spring.

Marshalls credit card holders got a sneak peak inside the department store Tuesday during on a special three-hour event to celebrate the opening of the long-awaited development.

THE five challengers in the room had one thing in common. They want to liberate Pico Rivera in the Nov.

Norwalk City Councilman Richard Ramirez is free on bail Saturday night after being arrested for allegedly threatening his wife.

Herlinda Ramirez Colosimo has lived in the city all her life but recently has found herself shopping outside its borders.

Three robbery suspects barricaded themselves inside a Whittier home Saturday, authorities said, leading deputies to a marijuana grow and additional arrests.

The office of Congresswoman Grace Napolitano, D-Santa Fe Springs, will host a job fair with the city from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at El Rancho High School, 6501 Passons Blvd.

I have never been able to change a Taiwanese woman's mind when I tilt against her favorite soy milk, and there is no arguing rigatoni with a certain kind of Italian-American, at least unless your opinion is that his mother makes the single best version in the world.

When it comes to our hard fought freedoms, we Americans are often difficult to understand.

The Pico Rivera Senior Center is offering free flu vaccinations from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday at the senior center, 9200 Mines Ave.

In many ways Al Lora is like many other Pico Rivera residents. He is fluent in English and Spanish, but speaks English without an accent.