Valinda News

Within minutes of a drive-by shooting on Meeker Avenue on Tuesday morning, sheriff's deputies arrested three people suspected of being involved, officials said.

A power vacuum in the local gang structure may be contributing to a wave of violence sweeping through neighborhoods in the tiny unincorporated community of Bassett.

Police making a welfare check Monday chased down a man who tried to flee by running to a nearby rooftop, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said.

A Sheriff's deputy walks past a parked car with blood stains after a shooting in 13600 block of Judith Street in Bassett on Thursday evening, June 18, 2009.

A lone chair rests on the porch of a home on the 1400-block of Griffith Avenue in Valinda on Friday June 19, 2009.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies are working to uncover details in a drive-by shooting Thursday that killed an 18-year-old man and wounded a 17-year-old boy in the leg.

One person was killed and another wounded in a shooting Thursday, authorities said.

Keenan Cheung of La Canada hugs his kidney donor, Reginal Griffin of Long beach.

Even though it was 16 days late, the Cinco de Mayo festival at Valinda School of Academics was still a major hit.

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Mosquito larvae are checked for West Nile by the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito & Vector Control District at the pool of a foreclosed home in the 16700 block of Fellowship Street in Valinda.

Two and a half-year-old Vinnie Dodd, who was born with posterior urethral valve and went on dialysis during the first year of his life, is recovering in his Azusa home Thursday, March 5, 2009 after a kidney transplant a month earlier.

Montebello Police increased its reward to $10,000 for the return of a shotgun and an assault rifle taken from a stolen patrol car 24 days ago.

Two men will likely spend the rest of their lives in prison after being sentenced Thursday for the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy and the wounding of his girlfriend on Easter Sunday last year, officials said.

Two men and two teenage girls were arrested Tuesday after an alleged robbery spree with the help of one of the alleged victims and some good Samaritans, authorities said.

Police are trying to recover two loaded weapons taken from a police car that was stolen from an officer responding to a complaint about a party in eastern Los Angeles County.

Police are seeking to recover an assault rifle and shotgun taken from a police car that was stolen early Sunday in Montebello and abandoned in Valinda, authorities said.

Sheriff and fire officials responded to a house fire early this morning in the Valinda area.

For more than 20 years, KCAT Channel 3 provided some of the most local content on television - area Fourth of July parades, football games and even backyard wrestling.

The California Supreme Court Thursday upheld the death sentence of a Valinda man who was high on PCP when he murdered a West Covina police officer in 1983.