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REMEMBERING OUR HEROES: Local Cities and Organizations to Hold Memorial Day Events on Monday

REMEMBERING OUR HEROES: Local Cities and Organizations to Hold Memorial Day Events on Monday

Hews Media Group would like to urge all of our readers to attend a local Memorial Day Service on Monday here in the greater South East Los Angeles County.  Below…

COPS: Lakewood City Council Approves $130K Safety Grant

COPS: Lakewood City Council Approves $130K Safety Grant

By Rico Dizon The Lakewood City Council approved the $129,201 distribution of the 2013-14 State for the Citizen’s Options for Public Safety (COPS) grant during the Council’s regular meeting last…

LETTER BAG: Climate Change and the 1968 La Mirada Lamplighter

LETTER BAG: Climate Change and the 1968 La Mirada Lamplighter

LETTERS Re: Wedding appeared in 1968 edition of Lamplighter Dear Editor of the La Mirada Lamplighter: My name is Linda McFadden Karsten, avid reader of the Lamplighter, thanks for briging…

Lauren Caron Named Miss Cerritos 2013

Lauren Caron Named Miss Cerritos 2013

  By Jill Ovard Lauren Caron was named Miss Cerritos 2013 by the Cerritos Regional Chamber of Commerce with Karen Guzman and Rajvi Rami claiming the title of Miss Cerritos…

Hike In Bin Dispoal Fee Looms In Artesia

Hike In Bin Dispoal Fee Looms In Artesia

  By Rico Dizon A proposed ordinance that will raise the single family residential monthly fee for the collection and disposal of garbage from the existing $22.01 to $22.71 effective…

La Palma Welcomes Sale of BP Carson to Tesoro

La Palma Welcomes Sale of BP Carson to Tesoro

  By Brian Hews For the past fifteen years, La Palma has benefited from the receipt of significant sales tax revenue from BP’s fuel sales group being located within the…

Condominium Development Proposed for Artesia and Bloomfield Parcels In Cerritos

Condominium Development Proposed for Artesia and Bloomfield Parcels In Cerritos

  By Brian Hews The Picerne Group, a commercial and real estate developer based out of San Juan Capistrano, has proposed to purchase part of the long abandoned center on…

Carolina Estrella identified as victim in Artesia hit and run near New Life Community Church

Carolina Estrella identified as victim in Artesia hit and run near New Life Community Church

  Artesia resident Carolina Estrella. Photo from KABC 7 Los Angeles. By Brian Hews Carolina Estrella, a well loved 83 year old resident of Artesia, was struck and killed by…

81-Year-Old Struck, Killed By Car In Artesia Early Saturday Morning; Suspect Flees Scene

81-Year-Old Struck, Killed By Car In Artesia Early Saturday Morning; Suspect Flees Scene

By Brian Hews UPDATED AT 1:02 PM An 81-year old female was struck and killed early Saturday morning in Artesia prompting local law enforcement officials to find the car and…

Los Cerritos Community Newspaper Named Finalist in Southern California Newspaper Award For Investigative Series on Assessor, Noguez

Los Cerritos Community Newspaper Named Finalist in Southern California Newspaper Award For Investigative Series on Assessor, Noguez

Los Cerritos Community Newspaper, Publisher Brian Hews and Investigative Reporter Randy Economy have been nominated in the category of “Best Investigative Series” by the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club on…

BREAKING: ERIC GARCETTI ELECTED MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES

BREAKING: ERIC GARCETTI ELECTED MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES

By Brian Hews This is BREAKING NEWS. Los Angeles has a new mayor and it is Eric Garcetti. Garcetti beat rival Wendy Greuel by 8 percentage points, a margin of…

ERIC GARCETTI: ‘Tomorrow we roll up our sleeves and get to work to fix Los Angeles’

ERIC GARCETTI:  ‘Tomorrow we roll up our sleeves and get to work to fix Los Angeles’

12:15 a.m. By Brian Hews Eric Garcetti is inching closer to being elected Mayor of Los Angeles in a close race on Tuesday against rival  Controller Wendy Greuel. Garcetti said…

GREUEL OPENS WITH RAZOR THIN LEAD OVER GARCETTI FOR LA MAYOR; FEUER, GALPERIN TAKE EARLY LEADS FOR ATTORNEY, CONTROLLER [9:36]

GREUEL OPENS WITH RAZOR THIN LEAD OVER GARCETTI FOR LA MAYOR; FEUER, GALPERIN TAKE EARLY LEADS FOR ATTORNEY, CONTROLLER [9:36]

9:22: Ron Galperin has open up an early lead over City Councilman Dennis Zine to become the next City Controller in Los Angeles. 9:21 PM: Election officials have posted the…

Superpac Commercial Highlights Los Cerritos Community News’ Documentation on Wendy Greuel the Republican

Superpac Commercial Highlights Los Cerritos Community News’ Documentation on Wendy Greuel the Republican

Man Dies After Officer Invovled Shooting on Ritchfield Avenue in Paramount

Man Dies After Officer Invovled Shooting on Ritchfield Avenue in Paramount

By Brian Hews Sheriff’s Homicide detectives were dispatched to the 7200 block of Ritchfield Avenue in Paramount on Tuesday night to investigate the circumstances surrounding a deputy-involved shooting death of…

Lakewood Residents Evacuated Around Iroquois Avenue For Possible Explosive Device (UPDATED AT 8:40 PM)

Lakewood Residents Evacuated Around Iroquois Avenue For Possible Explosive Device (UPDATED AT 8:40 PM)

UPDATED AT 8:40 P.M. Here is an official update just issued by members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department regarding the situation on Iroquois Avenue in Lakewood. This was…

BREAKING: Actress Angelina Jolie Reveals ‘Double Mastectomy’ in NY Times OP ED

BREAKING: Actress Angelina Jolie Reveals ‘Double Mastectomy’ in NY Times OP ED

In a huge revelation, actress Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday that she “quietly underwent a preventive double mastectomy” after discovering she carried the BRCA1 gene. “My chances…

DANIEL ORTIZ DEATH: Norwalk Mother Searches for Motorist who Killed Son Riding Skateboard

DANIEL ORTIZ DEATH: Norwalk Mother Searches for Motorist who Killed Son Riding Skateboard

  By Brian Hews It is a mother’s worst nightmare. For Norwalk’s Sherry Ortiz the death of her beloved 20-year old son Daniel Ortiz just three months ago has turned…

Three Car Accident Results In Closure of Artesia Boulevard and Shoemaker Avenue

Three Car Accident Results In Closure of Artesia Boulevard and Shoemaker Avenue

A three car accident Monday morning has resulted in the temporary closure of Artesia Boulevard and Shoemaker Avenue in Cerritos.  One of the three vehicles involved completely flipped upside down. …

Super-Pac Commercial Highlights Los Cerritos Community News’ Investigative Expose on Wendy Greuel

Super-Pac Commercial Highlights Los Cerritos Community News’ Investigative Expose on Wendy Greuel

  Text from commercial: “Wendy Greuel touts her record as City Controller.” As City Controller I serve as the city’s watchdog”, Greuel says. But emails (as first reported in Los…