South Gate News

A former Sunnyside police clerk accused of stealing more than $11,000 from the department was caught today near Los Angeles, authorities said.

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Curious to see what a fire engine from the 19th Century looks like? How about a peek at the original Squad 51 from the television series "Emergency?" The Los Angeles County Fire Museum has all that and more at its new temporary Bellflower location, which will be open to the public the first Sunday of every month starting on Dec.

Firefighters needed less than a half-hour to knock down a leaping, heaving pallet fire Monday night in an industrial yard in an unincorporated area just west of South Gate.

The application deadline for the popular local magnet-school program is three weeks earlier this school year.

SOUTH GATE a ' Tickets are on sale for the Miss South Gate Pageant, set for 6 p.m. Nov.

Catalina Tempering, a windows manufacturer, said yesterday that it has opened a plant in Mount Airy, creating 20 jobs.

LOS ANGELES a " Authorities say a body has been found in a burning car on the banks of the Los Angeles River.Fire officials discovered the body after responding to a report of a car fire early Saturday in the riverbed near the 710 Freeway in the South Gate neighborhood.Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt.

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

" Carmen Avalos has never backed down from a challenge and doesn't plan on starting today.

Consumer and health advocates gave Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger low marks for vetoing many health-related bills, but noted he signed several pieces of legislation expected to improve Californian's access to services.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a measure that would have restricted the ability of insurance companies to cancel the policies of sick patients and signed into law a bill honoring Harvey Milk as he rushed to act on 704 bills before their midnight signing deadline Sunday.

Despite no water deal in sight, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released scores of bills Sunday after both Republican and Democratic legislative leaders reported progress in closed-door talks.

A state Assembly oversight committee is examining the workings of the California Administrative Office of the Courts, under scrutiny in recent months for its growing bureaucracy at a time of unprecedented budget cuts in the judicial system.

Sheriff's deputies are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a 66-year-old grandmother of eight during a robbery in Lynwood.

The city of South Gate, Calif., has paid out $18 million to settle lawsuits filed by a group of officers who said they faced racially-motivated discrimination, harassment and retaliation in the aftermath of the ouster of a Latino police official in 2002, the officers' attorney said Tuesday.

Some real monstrosities lurk in the bills awaiting action by Schwarzenegger. Amid the hundred of bills from the just-concluded legislative session on Gov.

While local league cross country races have started in the past two weeks, perhaps the best place to catch a good portion of the area's talent in one place is at Saturday's 10th annual Warren Stauffer Invitational at South Gate's Hollydale Park.

A Los Angeles County man is behind bars after Santa Barbara detectives linked him to a "switcheroo" scam pulled earlier this month at a local jewelry store.

Does Los Angeles-area state Sen. Roderick Wright live in the district he represents? Where the veteran Democrat currently makes his home doesn't actually matter under state law, elections experts say.