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[UPDATE] BREAKING: Man shot, killed in Artesia while driving car

[UPDATE] BREAKING: Man shot, killed in Artesia while driving car

UPDATED AT 5:24 AM: By Brian Hews Members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Department have assembled at the 119000 block of Arkansas Street in Artesia to investigate the…

Plain Jane Bandit Hit Cerritos Bank

Plain Jane Bandit Hit Cerritos Bank

Cerritos Sheriff Watch Commander tells Cerritos Newspaper reporter asking questions to “call back in an hour”. The “Plain Jane Bandit” has struck again, holding up a Chase branch in Cerritos.…

SOUTHEAST LA TRAFFIC: CalTrans Unveils New Real-Time Travel Cams, Maps

SOUTHEAST LA TRAFFIC: CalTrans Unveils New Real-Time Travel Cams, Maps

By Brian Hews Motorists around Cerritos, Norwalk, and all of Southeast Los Angeles County have a new on line tool at their fingertips that will allow them to avoid local…

Cerritos 7-year-old advances in Southern California Icon vocal competition

Cerritos 7-year-old advances in Southern California Icon vocal competition

Seven year old, Alexis Paige Cunningham from Cerritos made it to the Semi-Finals (7-10 age group) for Southern California Icon. Southern California Icon is an annual vocal competition event for…

Local teen heads to Ecuador for Global Citizens Year

Local teen heads to Ecuador for Global Citizens Year

By Brian Hews Emily Hwang is getting ready to embark on a new journey after her recent graduation from Gretchen Whitney High School in Cerritos. Unlike many of her other…

Fountain Plaza Center to get Remake with Reconstruction of Destroyed Building

Fountain Plaza Center to get Remake with Reconstruction of Destroyed Building

By Jerry Bernstein The Cerritos City Council approved a Planning Commission recommendation to remodel the existing buildings of the Fountain Plaza Shopping Center and replace a two-story office/retail structure that…

Arte Café Transformed into New Orleans Bourbon Street on Friday Nights

Get ready for some fantastic jazz entertainment every Friday night through the month of July at Arte Café in the Cerritos Towne Center! These exciting Jazz nights are bought to…

Moskowitz Foundation Donates $6,000 to Adult Education Program

Moskowitz Foundation Donates $6,000 to Adult Education Program

Sal Flores representing the Irving Moskowitz Foundation presents a check in the amount of $6,000 to the ABC Adult School for ESL classes in Hawaiian Gardens at the school board’s…

Settlement Fails Between ABC and Former Stowers Principal

Settlement Fails Between ABC and Former Stowers Principal

Case goes to Trial Court Oct. 31st Former Stowers Elementary School Principal Eileen Blagden and the ABC Unified School District failed to agree on a settlement over her demotion. Judge…

Engelbert Humperdinck Kicks Off New Season at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts

Engelbert Humperdinck Kicks Off New Season at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts

Grammy nominee Engelbert Humperdinck charms his way back to the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA) with a two-day concert kicking off the 2012-2013 Season. The legendary balladeer presents…

La Mirada Resident Headlines O.C. Fair

La Mirada Resident Headlines O.C. Fair

La Mirada Resident Headlines O.C. Fair By Tony Aiello La Mirada resident Kenny Metcalf who “was at death’s doorstep” just a few short years ago, will headline at the Orange…

Two Olympic Bronze Medals Stolen from Artesia Home

Two Olympic Bronze Medals Stolen from Artesia Home

The medals awarded to Rusty Smith, a two-time Olympian were taken from his parents’ home in Artesia sometime Thursday, according to the Lakewood Sheriff’s Station. The two-time Olympian told NBC4…

Buffet and Berkshire make a bet on print

Buffet and Berkshire make a bet on print

“In towns and cities where there is a strong sense of community, there is no more important institution than the local paper,” Buffett said in a statement.   Former paperboy…

Bryce Harkey: La Mirada Youth Becomes Rising Star in Motocross

Bryce Harkey: La Mirada Youth Becomes Rising Star in Motocross

By Chente D. Ramirez Staff Reporter Bryce Harkey, age 17, from La Mirada is on the rise and on is well on his way to becoming an amateur professional Motocross…

July 13 Los Cerritos Community News digital edition

July 13 Los Cerritos Community News digital edition

Click on second image to view in fullscreen. Open publication – Free publishing…

Mayor Pro Tem Barrows Battery Hearing Results in Mandate from Judge

Mayor Pro Tem Barrows Battery Hearing Results in Mandate from Judge

By Brian Hews Cerritos Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Barrows appeared before the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in Bellflower last Friday for an Office Hearing regarding allegations of criminal…

Bell Audits Remain Incomplete Since Rizzo Departure

Bell Audits Remain Incomplete Since Rizzo Departure

Critical fiscal data disappeared, went missing, misplaced new audit in Bell concludes By Brian Hews and Randy Economy Los Cerritos Community Newspaper has learned that the city of Bell has…

Sheriff’s Commercial Crimes Bureau Arrest Real Estate Agent for Defrauding Clients

Sheriff’s Commercial Crimes Bureau Arrest Real Estate Agent for Defrauding Clients

On June 2008 and August 2010, Licensed Real Estate Agent Jong Hwan Huh, aka David Huh, 47 years-of-age, from the city of Torrance, defrauded seven clients out of $404,000 by…

Court Rules ABC School District Fabricated Evidence Used to Demote Former Stowers Principal

Court Rules ABC School District Fabricated Evidence Used to Demote Former Stowers Principal

  Settlement Conference Set for July 17 It was February 2010 when then Stowers Principal Mrs. Eileen Bladgen reported a threat on the lives of two of her teachers by…

Cerritos Mayor Pro Tem Barrows involved in alleged assault involving resident, council critic Jay Gray

Cerritos Mayor Pro Tem Barrows involved in alleged assault involving resident, council critic Jay  Gray

By Brian Hews Cerritos Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Barrows was involved in an incident Monday night that could land the veteran city councilman in legal hot water after he allegedly…