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@Pontifex: Pope Signs On To Twitter

@Pontifex: Pope Signs On To Twitter

By Brian Hews It is now official. Pope Benedict XVI is now Tweeting. The Pontiff began accepting and sending out “tweets” this week, and within hours his Holiness had more…

Lakewood High School student Destiny Shorter, 15, goes missing

Lakewood High School student Destiny Shorter, 15, goes missing

By Brian Hews A Lakewood High School student has gone missing and law enforcement officials have issued a formal alert in order to lfind the missing teenage girl. On Monday,…

US Supreme Court To Decide Marriage Equality Issue

US Supreme Court To Decide Marriage Equality Issue

By Brian Hews The US Supreme Court made a landmark announcement on Friday confirming that it will rule for the first time on same-sex marriage by deciding the constitutionality of…

Fresh & Easy Going Out of Business in Southern California

Fresh & Easy Going Out of Business in Southern California

By Brian Hews It appears that Fresh & Easy could be out of business here in Southern California after a key decision was announced Wednesday afternoon by parent company Tesco,…

Four injured, three arrested after stolen car crashes at Horst and Alondra

Four injured, three arrested after stolen car crashes at Horst and Alondra

  By Brian Hews A stolen car collided into another passenger vehicle at the intersection of Alondra Boulevard and Horst Avenue in Artesia on Tuesday night which resulted in four…

ABC7 ‘Spark of Love’ Stuff A Bus Toy Drive Arrives at Los Cerritos Center on Friday

ABC7 ‘Spark of Love’ Stuff A Bus Toy Drive Arrives at Los Cerritos Center on Friday

  By Brian Hews ABC7 and Southern California Firefighters are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Spark of Love Toy Drive this Friday, December 7th at Los Cerritos Center. The…

Jackie Lacey takes ‘Historical’ Oath of Office as LA County’s New District Attorney

Jackie Lacey takes ‘Historical’ Oath of Office as LA County’s New District Attorney

  UPDATED: 10:06 p.m. By Brian Hews (Los Angeles) Jackie Lacey made history on Monday when she was officially sworn in as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County. In…

Jailed Los Angeles County Assessor celebrates birthday behind bars; Email encourages donations to legal fund

Jailed Los Angeles County Assessor celebrates birthday behind bars;  Email encourages donations to legal fund

 By Brian Hews Jailed Los Angeles County Assessor John R. Noguez celebrated his birthday behind bars last week and on Monday morning, several of his supporters and friends received an…

UPDATE: Critically Injurred Deputy Struck By Car in East LA identified as Rudy Juarez

UPDATE: Critically Injurred Deputy Struck By Car in East LA identified as Rudy Juarez

By Brian Hews UPDATE: An on duty Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Transit Services Deputy has been hit by a car while rendering aid to a motorist on Saturday morning…

‘Tiger Bandit’ identified as Cerritos bank robber by FBI officials

‘Tiger Bandit’ identified as Cerritos bank robber by FBI officials

By Brian Hews A suspect who robbed a Cerritos bank as well as five other locations has been identified as the “Tiger Bandit”, officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigations…

Memorial Plaque Honoring Murdered Deputy Jerry Ortiz Given Back To Family After Hawaiian Gardens Council Vote

Memorial Plaque Honoring Murdered Deputy Jerry Ortiz Given Back To Family After Hawaiian Gardens Council Vote

  Outspoken Hawaiian Gardens City Councilman Barry Bruce says he has “A real problem that every year we memorialize Deputy Jerry Ortiz’ death.” By Brian Hews The Hawaiian Gardens City…

Convicted Long Beach Campaign Treasurer Kinde Durkee Prepares For Eight Year Prison Sentence Today

Convicted Long Beach Campaign Treasurer Kinde Durkee Prepares For Eight Year Prison Sentence Today

By Brian Hews Kinde Durke, the campaign treasurer from Long Beach who was convicted of felony money laundering and raiding at least 50 political campaign committees will be sentenced to…

La Mirada teen Jeet Banerjee turns passion into inventions, profits, and an endless future

La Mirada teen Jeet Banerjee turns passion into inventions, profits, and an endless future

By Brian Hews In this era of technical geniuses, a local 19-year old just might be on his way to becoming the next “Bill Gates” or “Warren Buffet.” For Jeet…

Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens announces breast cancer condition

Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens announces breast cancer condition

By Brian Hews Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens announced that she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. In a statement to members of the media on Monday afternoon, Hutchens confirmed…

LCCN Requests Documents From Norwalk Chamber Relating to Downey Patriot Deal

LCCN Requests Documents From Norwalk Chamber Relating to Downey Patriot Deal

  By Brian Hews   Los Cerritos Community News publisher Brian Hews has requested all documents from the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce surrounding the covert Purchase and Sale Agreement signed…

LETTERS: Frontier Little League Leaders Question Increase of Recreation Fees by Cerritos City Council

LETTERS: Frontier  Little League Leaders Question Increase of  Recreation Fees by Cerritos City Council

Los Cerritos Community Newspaper has received several letters and comments regarding the fee increase proposal by the Cerritos City Council. If you have an opinion about the situation, please feel…

Lakewood Mayor DuBois, residents, officials remember ‘beloved’ Councilman Larry Van Nostran

Lakewood Mayor DuBois, residents, officials remember ‘beloved’ Councilman Larry Van Nostran

Lakewood’s longest-serving council member, Larry Van Nostran, was warmly remembered at a memorial service on Sunday, November 18, by an audience of family members, residents and officials including Los Angeles…

City Council hopefuls line up in Cerritos, Norwalk, La Mirada, Lakewood

City Council hopefuls line up in Cerritos, Norwalk, La Mirada, Lakewood

By Brian Hews With the 2012 Presidential campaign just two weeks behind voters, candidates who are hoping to be elected to local city council slots in the March, 2013 Municipal…

Huntington Park Recall Leaders Become Target of San Francisco Political Law Firm

Huntington Park Recall Leaders Become Target of San Francisco Political Law Firm

Updated at 5:13 a.m., Wednesday: Los Cerritos Community Newspaper has been told that at least six supporters of the recall effort in Huntington Park formally informed City Clerk Rosanna Ramirez…

Los Cerritos Community News Publisher Receives Questionable Tax Letter From LA County

Los Cerritos Community News Publisher Receives Questionable Tax Letter From LA County

By Brian Hews A copy of the letter can be found at the end of this article. On the heels of articles written citing corruption and collaboration to discredit Los…