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The city and the state are close to an agreement that would keep Pio Pico state Historic Park open through this year.

An 18-year-old Temple City woman was drunk early Saturday when she nearly collided with a police car, led police on a brief chase, then fled the scene after crashing into another car in Uptown Whittier, authorities said.

Two teenage suspects took advantage of an unlocked classroom door and stole two iPads valued at $1,800 from a local school Friday night.

The new face of the Rio Hondo Symphony Association will be Leighton Anderson, local attorney and community volunteer, who is set to be installed as president of the Rio Hondo Symphony Association at the Installation Tea at First Friends Church today.

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, associate professor of Chicano studies at UC Davis, has written a book about the now-closed Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility.

There hasn't been a Whittier resident in Congress since the 1960s and only two since the 1940s.

The Sola Lions Club of Whittier is sponsoring its second annual Special Olympics swim meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at Palm Park, 5703 Palm Ave.

A judge sentenced a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent from Whittier to two years in federal prison Friday for obstructing justice, providing false information to federal officials and defrauding the agency out of nearly $600,000, authorities said.

A 14-year-old boy was injured in a Los Angeles County car accident when his bicycle collided with a car, the morning of May 29, 2012.

South Pasadena High School's Claire Kieffer-Wright jumped 5 feet, 10 inches in a Rio Hondo League dual meet in March.

"It must be nice to have a column with which to vent your frustrations; the rest of us just have to sit and fume," he wrote after my rant last week against TV networks and their practice of canceling shows before resolving the questions, mysteries and plot points raised when the show debuted.

The Whittier High School Chess Club won the Del Rio League Chess Championship on May 25 after defeating California High School and defending champions Santa Fe High School at the WHS library.

The East Whittier United Methodist Women are hosting a Craft, Quilting, and Collections Fair from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the church's Geer Hall at 10005 South Cole Road.

The Industry Manufacturers Council holds their annual Job Seek, a job fair and career training event, at Industry Hills Expo Center Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

Fifth and sixth-grade students prepare and launch their rockets as they celebrate the end of their Directed Discovery Class at Whittier Christian Elementary School in Whittier on Wednesday May 30.

Gifted students in Whittier Christian Elementary's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program launched self-made rockets into the sky Wednesday.

The shooting broke out 10:55 p.m. at Carmenita Road and Sundance Avenue which is in the unincorporated area near Whittier.

The following are candidates running for the 57th Assembly District. Rudy Bermudez , Ian Calderon , Noel Jaimes .

Whittier College has been selected to receive a four-year, $800,000 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support the college's efforts to promote new, innovative strategies for improving science and math education in grades kindergarten through 12.