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So-Cal Summer Send Off: Local Gems to Explore Before the Season Ends

So-Cal Summer Send Off: Local Gems to Explore Before the Season Ends

August 20, 2025 By Laurie Hanson Create new memories before summertime ends by exploring unique places and activities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Whether visiting local museums, beaches, or…

The Benefits of Breastfeeding Cannot be Underestimated for Mother and Child

To breastfeed or not to breastfeed, that’s the question many mothers of newborns often ask themselves as they want to best possible outcome for their babies. August marks National Breastfeeding…

OUTLOOK ON NEW FOOTHILL AREA RELEAGUING: La Mirada athletics excited to face more equity-based teams with new conference

OUTLOOK ON NEW FOOTHILL AREA RELEAGUING: La Mirada athletics excited to face more equity-based teams with new conference

By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X This is the seventh and final part in a series of area schools involved in the upcoming Foothill Area releaguing that will begin in…

FDA issues warning about shrimp sold at Walmart because of radioactive concerns

FDA issues warning about shrimp sold at Walmart because of radioactive concerns

By News Desk on August 19, 2025 The FDA has issued a warning about shrimp imported from Indonesia and sold at some Walmart stores because it could by contaminated with…

Lakewood Center Sold, New Owners Plan Mixed-Use Makeover

Lakewood Center Sold, New Owners Plan Mixed-Use Makeover

August 19, 2025 LCCN Staff Report A major ownership change is setting the stage for a sweeping reinvention of Lakewood Center. Pacific Retail Capital Partners, Newport Beach–based Lyon Living, and…

Still Squatting: Central Basin’s Appointees Ochoa and Moreno Thumb Their Noses at the Law

Still Squatting: Central Basin’s Appointees Ochoa and Moreno Thumb Their Noses at the Law

Golden State Water GM Nem Ochoa and city of Vernon Engineer Joanna Moreno remain on CB’s Board, violating the State’s Water Code and CB Code. Using their voting-bloc majority, other directors…

August 18, 2025: Man Shot and Killed in Bellflower

August 18, 2025: Man Shot and Killed in Bellflower

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide investigators are responding to a shooting death investigation. The incident was reported Monday, August 18, 2025, at approximately 9:16 PM, on the 14000 block of…

Residential Mosquito Treatments in Orange and Santa Ana

Residential Mosquito Treatments in Orange and Santa Ana

By Los Cerritos Community News Staff The Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District (OCMVCD) announced that it will begin overnight mosquito treatments this week in parts of Orange and…

Bankruptcy: City of Orange Can’t Cut Its Way Out of This

Bankruptcy: City of Orange Can’t Cut Its Way Out of This

August 18, 2025 By Brian Hews, Editor and Publisher. Full disclosure-I have been an Orange resident for 23 years. Orange isn’t “on the brink”—it’s already halfway over the cliff, and…

A Message From Cerritos Mayor Frank Yokoyama

A Message From Cerritos Mayor Frank Yokoyama

By Cerritos Mayor Frank Aurelio Yokoyama To achieve the City’s Strategic Goal number 6: Focus on Fiscal Transparency and Sustainability, we must strengthen public trust and responsibly manage resources. This requires…

Alleged DUI driver crashes into Downey home, killing resident

Alleged DUI driver crashes into Downey home, killing resident

Aug 16, 2025 (CBS) A woman is dead after a driver crashed into her Downey home while allegedly under the influence of drugs or alcohol early Saturday morning, authorities confirmed.…

CONSEQUENCES MAGA MORONS: Trump tax law will cause Medicare cuts if Congress doesn’t act, CBO says

CONSEQUENCES MAGA MORONS: Trump tax law will cause Medicare cuts if Congress doesn’t act, CBO says

August 16, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare if Congress…

Where Did the Money Go? Nearly $5 Million Vanishes After Central Basin Board’s Illegal Power Grab

Where Did the Money Go? Nearly $5 Million Vanishes After Central Basin Board’s Illegal Power Grab

August 2024 board meeting report showing Central Basin cash in February 2024 at $14.2 million when Victor Ponto took over after the illegal firing of Dr. Rojas. May 2025 cash…

August 15, 2025 Los Cerritos Community News Digital Edition

Man fleeing ICE raid at Home Depot in Monrovia hit and killed by vehicle after running onto 210 Fwy

Man fleeing ICE raid at Home Depot in Monrovia hit and killed by vehicle after running onto 210 Fwy

August 14, 2025 MONROVIA, Calif. (KABC) — A man was hit and killed on the 210 Freeway Thursday in Monrovia as he was fleeing from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation…

EPA Completes Removal of 150,000 Pounds of Illegally Stored Fireworks in Commerce Warehouse

EPA Completes Removal of 150,000 Pounds of Illegally Stored Fireworks in Commerce Warehouse

August 14, 2025 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has successfully completed the removal of approximately 150,000 pounds of illegally stored fireworks from a warehouse in the City of Commerce.…

The Benefits of Breastfeeding Cannot be Underestimated for Mother and Child

To breastfeed or not to breastfeed, that’s the question many mothers of newly born infants often ask themselves as they want to best possible outcome for their babies. With August…

2025 FOOTBALL PREVIEW – Younger Norwalk squad anxious to win Mid-Cities League for first time since 2022

2025 FOOTBALL PREVIEW – Younger Norwalk squad anxious to win Mid-Cities League for first time since 2022

August 13, 2025 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X NORWALK LANCERS 8-3 overall last season, 4-1 in the Mid-Cities League, second place, lost to St. Genevieve High 34-27 in…

Summer Sounds in Smith Park: Free Funk Concert August 15

Summer Sounds in Smith Park: Free Funk Concert August 15

August 13, 2025 Pico Rivera residents (and others) can look forward to an evening of high-energy music and community fun at Smith Park on Friday, August 15, starting at 5…

2025 FOOTBALL PREVIEW – John Glenn to begin new era with first-time head coach, more players

2025 FOOTBALL PREVIEW – John Glenn to begin new era with first-time head coach, more players

August 12, 2025 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X JOHN GLENN EAGLES 1-8 overall last season, 0-3 in the 605 League, fourth place 12-27 overall last five seasons Head…