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Former Cerritos High School slugger Sarah Smith slowly becoming Baylor’s big Bear

Former Cerritos High School slugger Sarah Smith slowly becoming Baylor’s big Bear

By Loren Kopff Standing tall at 5’ 10”, Sarah Smith tormented Southern California high school pitchers when she was at Cerritos High, spraying hits to all areas of the outfield…

Sen. Ron Calderon’s office and California Latino Caucus raided by U.S. Attorney and FBI

Sen. Ron Calderon’s office and California Latino Caucus raided by U.S. Attorney and FBI

UPDATED AT 9:35 P.M. By Brian Hews and Brian Hews The Sacramento offices of Senator Ron Calderon along with the California Latino Legislative Caucus were raided by federal officials including…

NBC Southern California Seeks Local Non-Profit Groups to Compete For $100K, $50K in Grants

NBC Southern California Seeks Local Non-Profit Groups to Compete For $100K, $50K in Grants

By Brian Hews NBC4 Southern California announced that it has started accepting submissions for its annual 21st Century Solutions grant challenge in partnership with NBC Universal Foundation this week. Local…

Knabe Fights to Keep ‘Fire Rings’ at LA County Beaches

Knabe Fights to Keep ‘Fire Rings’ at LA County Beaches

By Brian Hews Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe has lashed out at a proposed change that would eliminate open pit fires at beaches under the counties jurisdiction. At this…

Suspected Burglary Suspect Nabbed in Cerritos on Tuesday

Suspected Burglary Suspect Nabbed in Cerritos on Tuesday

By Brian Hews A burglary suspect has been arrested by the Cerritos Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday, officials announced on Tuesday. Neighborhoods throughout Cerritos have been prime targets in recent months…

Lakewood Costco Connected To Hepatitis A Outbreak; Local Woman Hospitalized

Lakewood Costco Connected To Hepatitis A Outbreak; Local Woman Hospitalized

By Brian Hews Costco in Lakewood has been linked to an outbreak of Hepatitis A after a popular frozen organic berry mix sold by an Oregon company appears to be…

Campaign 2014: Kevin Perѐz-Allen Announces Candidacy for 32nd California State Senate Race

Campaign 2014: Kevin Perѐz-Allen Announces Candidacy for 32nd California State Senate Race

California State Senate Candidate Kevin Perez-Allen. By Brian Hews The race for an open California State Senate seat in South East Los Angeles County and West Orange County took on…

Lakewood, Bellflower Sheriff’s Search for Suspect in Supermarket Parking Lot Murder

Lakewood, Bellflower Sheriff’s Search for Suspect in Supermarket Parking Lot Murder

By Brian Hews (Bellflower) A local man was shot and killed Sunday night in a parking lot at the corner of Woodruff Avenue and Alondra Boulevard in Bellflower, and law…

Adult Man Shot, Killed On Woodruff Avenue in Bellflower Late Sunday Night

Adult Man Shot, Killed On Woodruff Avenue in Bellflower Late Sunday Night

    By Brian Hews This is Breaking News from Los Cerritos Community Newspaper. Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Division have have converged on the 16000 block…

Powerhouse Fire Results In More Evacuations On Sunday Afternoon

Powerhouse Fire Results In More Evacuations On Sunday Afternoon

The Los Angeles County Fire Department, United States Forestry Service, along with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have ordered several evacuations and road closures as a result of the…

Teen Studio Construction at Cerritos Library Underway

Teen Studio Construction at Cerritos Library Underway

The Cerritos City Council recently awarded a contract in the amount of $290,141 to Dalke & Sons Construction, Inc. for the construction of a new Teen Studio at the Cerritos…

Miss Artesia Contestant Gives ‘Inside Look’ Into Saturday’s Pageant

Miss Artesia Contestant Gives ‘Inside Look’ Into Saturday’s Pageant

Note: This Saturday is the Miss Artesia and Miss Artesia Teen Pageant that will be held at the Albert O. Little Community Center.  Los Cerritos Community Newspaper wishes all of…

Local Civil Rights Pioneer Charles Ara Honored By ‘Veterans For Peace’

Local Civil Rights Pioneer Charles Ara Honored By ‘Veterans For Peace’

By Brian Hews Charles Ara, a longtime community leader and resident of Cerritos has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Veteran For Peace at a special event…

Eight Receive Edison Green Jobs Scholarships at Cerritos College

The Cerritos College Foundation recently presented the Edison Green Jobs Technology Scholarship to eight students. The Edison Green Jobs Technology Scholarship assists students with a financial need who are taking…

Cerritos Relay for Life Holds E-Waste Event This Weekend

Cerritos Relay for Life Holds E-Waste Event This Weekend

The Relay For Life of Cerritos is hosting an electronic waste recycling event on Saturday and Sunday, June 1st and 2nd from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, in the Gahr…

Cerritos College Foundation Awards Four Auto Scholarships

The Cerritos College Foundation awarded four automotive scholarships to six promising students at the Southland Motor Car Dealers Association’s Board of Directors meeting Thursday, May 16. The Jeannie M.T. Yang…

Whole Foods to consider acquiring Fresh & Easy stores

Whole Foods to consider acquiring Fresh & Easy stores

From MarketWatch As Whole Foods accelerates its U.S. expansion, the organic grocery chain plans to take a “good hard look” at parts of the Fresh & Easy chain that British…

[UPDATED] BREAKING: Man Shot, Killed In Lakewood on Arbor Road Thursday Afternoon

[UPDATED] BREAKING: Man Shot, Killed In Lakewood on Arbor Road Thursday Afternoon

8:35 P.M.: This is an UPDATE from Los Cerritos Community Newspaper: Tonight, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told members of the media that the Lakewood Sheriffs Department responded to…

UPDATE: Christian Barnes, 22, of Long Beach Arrested In Connection With Disneyland’s Toon Town ‘Ice-Bottle’ Bombing

UPDATE: Christian Barnes, 22, of Long Beach Arrested In Connection With Disneyland’s Toon Town ‘Ice-Bottle’ Bombing

UPDATED By Brian Hews Christian Barnes, a  22-year-old Disneyland employee and a resident of Long Beach has been arrested in connection with the detonation of a dry ice bomb in…

Abdulrahman M. Alyahyan, Nozad Al Hamawendi, Cecilia D. Zamora, Aurora C. Cabrera, Robin A. Cabrera Identified As Five Teens Killed in Newport Beach Crash

Abdulrahman M. Alyahyan,  Nozad Al Hamawendi, Cecilia D. Zamora, Aurora C. Cabrera, Robin A. Cabrera Identified As Five Teens Killed in Newport Beach Crash

Law enforcement officials on Tuesday released the names of the five teenagers who were killed in a horrific crash in Newport Beach on Monday night and four of the victims…