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BREAKING NEWS: Nick Pasquale, UCLA Football Player Dies After Being Hit By Car In San Clemente

BREAKING NEWS: Nick Pasquale, UCLA Football Player Dies After Being Hit By Car In San Clemente

This is Breaking News: UCLA Football player Nick Pasquale died early Sunday morning after being hit by a vehicle in San Clemente, according to an Orange County coroner’s report. Pasquale,…

Gil Cedillo Jr. Spent $15K on Lavish Meals While at Central Basin Municipal Water District

Gil Cedillo Jr. Spent $15K on Lavish Meals While at Central Basin Municipal Water District

Wednesday, September 3, 2013, 12:34 p.m. By Brian Hews and Brian Hews The Palms, Steven’s Steakhouse, The Dal Rae, The Vintage. They are some of the most elegant, exclusive, and…

Bryce Laspisa: Search Begins for Missing Orange County Teenager

Bryce Laspisa: Search Begins for Missing Orange County Teenager

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies (LASD) deputies and several other policing agencies are working together in an effort to find Bryce Laspisa, a 19-year old White male. The public is…

Cerritos Mayor Bruce Barrows Rebukes Gandhi Statue Protesters

Cerritos Mayor Bruce Barrows Rebukes Gandhi Statue Protesters

  Additional ‘Actions’ Planned by Outside Organizers to Have Statue Removed By Brian Hews and Randy Economy After an unsatisfactory response from Mayor Bruce Barrow demanding removal of Cerritos’ Gandhi statue,…

Employee, Central Basin Water Cut Deal in Harassment Allegation Against Apodaca

Employee, Central Basin Water Cut Deal in Harassment Allegation Against Apodaca

By Brian Hews and Randy Economy Hews Media Group-Community News has obtained a 2010 Separation Agreement and General Release (SAGR) document via a public records request between a former employee…

Paul Tanaka Talks Candidly About Campaign for LA County Sheriff, Personal Passions, and his ‘Distrust’ of Lee Baca

Paul Tanaka Talks Candidly About Campaign for LA County Sheriff, Personal Passions, and his ‘Distrust’ of Lee Baca

  Paul Tanaka, candidate for Los Angeles County Sheriff during his visit and interview this week at Hews Media Group-Community Newspaper office in Cerritos. Below video is courtesy of the…

BREAKING: Small Plane Crashes on Beach at Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes

BREAKING: Small Plane Crashes on Beach at Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes

This is BREAKING NEWS! A plane crash landed on the beach at Portuguese Bend, Rancho Palos Verdes on Friday afternoon. The beach is near the northwestern edge of the Trump…

Details of Commerce City Council Confrontation Documented in Sheriff’s Report

Details of Commerce City Council Confrontation Documented in Sheriff’s Report

By Kristin Grafft and Randy Economy     A police report outlining specific details of a heated scuffle between at least four Commerce City officials at a local restaurant reveals…

Central Basin Water and Pacifica Services Secretly Collaborated to Alter Contracts

Central Basin Water and Pacifica Services Secretly Collaborated to Alter Contracts

Former GM Dave Hill fired and escorted from building. By Brian Hews and Randy Economy Friday August 23, 4:04 p.m. Hews Media Group – Community Newspaper has obtained exclusive documents…

Caltrans: Southern California’s Slumlord

Caltrans: Southern California’s Slumlord

Caltrans: Southern California’s Slumlord This story first published in Aug 2013.   FRUSTRATED EL SERENO RESIDENTS CLAIM THEY HAVE BEEN FORCED TO LIVE IN “SLUM LIKE CONDITIONS” BECAUSE OF THE…

Moody’s Investors Services Downgrades Central Basin Municipal Water District’s COP’s; Outlook Classified as ‘Negative’

Moody’s Investors Services Downgrades Central Basin Municipal Water District’s COP’s; Outlook Classified as ‘Negative’

By Brian Hews NEW YORK —  As if the Central Basin Municipal Water District hasn’t had enough problems during the past several months. Last Friday Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the…

Paul Tanaka blasts Lee Baca with opening salvo for LA County Sheriff’s campaign

Paul Tanaka blasts Lee Baca with opening salvo for LA County Sheriff’s campaign

By Brian Hews (Los Angeles)  – Former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka officially confirmed at a press event on Thursday that he will indeed be taking on his former…

[UPDATED] Cerritos, Artesia Hit With Oriental Fruit Fly Quarantine By State Officials

[UPDATED] Cerritos, Artesia Hit With Oriental Fruit Fly Quarantine By State Officials

By Justin Cooley The Oriental Fruit Fly is back in both Artesia and Cerritos prompting state officials to take action on Wednesday by declaring a quarantine in the two communities.…

BREAKING: Man Shot, Killed on Angell Street in Norwalk (UPDATED)

BREAKING: Man Shot, Killed on Angell Street in Norwalk (UPDATED)

Homicide Detectives have learned that the sound of several gunshots were heard in the area of shooting early Thursday morning. When deputies arrived, they discovered the victim, who suffered multiple…

Central Basin Water Ethics Committee to Investigate Board President James Roybal

Central Basin Water Ethics Committee to Investigate Board President James Roybal

HMG Exclusive By Brian Hews and Randy Economy (Commerce) Hews Media Group-Community News has received a copy of a response letter written by Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey…

SB 323: Senator Lara’s ‘Youth Equality Act’ Clears Two Hurdles in Sacramento

SB 323: Senator Lara’s ‘Youth Equality Act’ Clears Two Hurdles in Sacramento

REVISED By Brian Hews SACRAMENTO- A proposed law by California State Senator Ricardo Lara that would bring tax exemptions in line with California’s existing non-discrimination laws, has passed both the…

Gatto’s ‘California Broken Parking Meter Ticket’ Law Signed by Gov. Brown

Gatto’s ‘California Broken Parking Meter Ticket’ Law Signed by Gov. Brown

  Assemblyman Mike Gatto. Sacramento, CA – Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s (D-Los Angeles) legislation to prohibit local governments from fleecing motorists who park at broken parking meters was signed by Governor…

WSJ Report: Patch is on Brink of Closure

WSJ Report: Patch is on Brink of Closure

  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AOL Inc. Chief (Ignorant) Executive Tim Armstrong is resorting to major cuts at the company’s Patch local news unit in a last-ditch…

I-5 Freeway Ramp Closure at SB Pioneer Boulevard/Imperial Highway Begins August 15th

I-5 Freeway Ramp Closure at SB Pioneer Boulevard/Imperial Highway Begins August 15th

NORWALK – Caltrans will fully close the southbound Santa Ana Freeway (Interstate 5) off-ramp at Pioneer Boulevard/Imperial Highway beginning Thursday, August 15 at 8 a.m.  The ramp will remain fully…

Iconic ‘Dancer’ Sculpture In Cerritos ‘Beheaded’ by Thieves

Iconic ‘Dancer’ Sculpture In Cerritos ‘Beheaded’ by Thieves

 HMG-CN Staff Report In what is becoming a common occurrence, yet another expensive bronze sculpture set was stolen in the city of Cerritos overnight. The structure called “Dancer”was stolen from…