Pico Rivera News

Parents will soon be held liable if their children are caught tagging property in Los Angeles County, according to an anti-graffiti ordinance approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors.

An ordinance holding taggers and their parents liable for civil damages will be up for final approval Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors.

As stated in an earlier blog , Chicago recently increased local sales taxes, making rates in the city 10.25%. The rate, which is the highest in that nation, may soon rank second to Los Angeles.

Couched in a front-page article in this newspaper on Wednesday was a wake-up call for all parents or guardians of children with a penchant for spraying, etching or painting graffiti.

The sentencing for a gang member convicted of killing a rival during a car-to-car shooting in Pico Rivera was continued to Sept.22. A jury last month found Geovanny Leon, 20, guilty of the Sept.

Police say no leads have developed in a murder case gone cold since Supervisor Gloria Molina promised a $25,000 reward last week for information about the person who shot a 71-year-old man.

The county has scribbled out a message of victory over the face of vandalism. A little more than a year since the fatal shooting of Pico Rivera grandmother Maria Hicks on Aug.

The daughter of the late Jesse Unruh, former Assembly speaker and state treasurer, is among three persons who will challenge a longtime incumbent for a water board seat in November's election.

SEAACA 9777 Seaaca St. Downey 803-3301, Ext. 240 SEAACA was founded in 1975 by eight member cities: Bell Gardens, Downey, Montebello, Norwalk, Paramount, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs and South El Monte.

With colorful costumes and smiles, a cultural group from Cal Poly Pomona proudly performed dances from their Filipino culture at Fairplex on Saturday.

While the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the Los Angeles area was $4.16 per gallon Friday, prices at many local stations dropped below $4. At the Shell station at 1195 W. Foothill ...

Verizon Cable Splicer, Ed Armellino, prepares fiber-optic lines for splicing in a Santa Fe Springs neighborhood on wednesday July 30, 2008.

The Los Angeles Unified School District announced today that solar panels will be installed at its General Stores and Foods Warehouse in Pico Rivera.

Prosecutors filed attempted murder and other charges today against two Pico Rivera men accused of shooting at three people standing in a yard.

Tuesday's 5.4-temblor shook nerves but apparently didn't cause major damage. Law enforcement agencies covering Whittier, Montebello, Pico Rivera, La Mirada, La Habra Heights and La Habra said they haven't ...

One man got stabbed. Another got shot in the chest. A 6-year-old boy was temporarily blinded when he was spray-painted in the face.

Gang investigators say the July 6 shooting that wounded a deputy's 60-year-old mother was a case of mistaken identity.

Deputies arrested two men they are now calling suspects in the shooting of a deputy's mother.

City officials say they must renegotiate a botched redevelopment deal or they will be unable to pay their debts.

It seems Pico Rivera's city manager may have committed the cardinal sin in his profession: playing politics.