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Distinguished Young Women Scholarship Winners Announced At Whitney High

Distinguished Young Women Scholarship Winners Announced  At Whitney High

By Larry Caballero Several hundred family members and friends attended the 2016 Cerritos-Artesia Distinguished Young Women (DYW) Program Mar. 22 at the Whitney High Multimedia Center where 22 high school…

AB 523 ‘School of Choice’  for La Palma Fails to Get Out of Committee

AB 523 ‘School of Choice’  for La Palma Fails to Get Out of Committee

POSSIBLE MEETING BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE FULLERTON AND ANAHEIM SCHOOL DISTRICTS COULD SOLVE PROBLEM LOCALLY. By Brian Hews and Rico Dizon It is has been an ongoing problem with…

ACTIVE SHOOTER DRILL HELD AT CERRITOS HIGH

ACTIVE SHOOTER DRILL HELD AT CERRITOS HIGH

  By Tammye McDuff This past Tuesday, Cerritos High School became the scene of an active shooter response drill conducted by the Cerritos Sheriff’s Station, Tactics and Survival training personnel,…

Cerritos Friends of the 1st CEB Meritorious Marine

Cerritos Friends of the 1st CEB Meritorious Marine

Bellflower Dog Park Ribbon Cutting

Bellflower Dog Park Ribbon Cutting

  By Tammye McDuff The Flora Vista Dog Park opened with a huge fanfare from dogs and their people, March 17, 2015.  Mayor Sonny Santé Ines stated, “It’s a manifestation…

Hawaiian Gardens and Moskowitz Foundation’s First Annual Safety Fair

Hawaiian Gardens and Moskowitz Foundation’s First Annual Safety Fair

  By Tammye McDuff The City of Hawaiian Gardens partnered with The Bingo Club to host the first Annual Safety Expo on Saturday, March 14, 2015, sponsored by The Moskowitz…

Opening Day for Artesia Youth Baseball and Softball

Opening Day for Artesia Youth Baseball and Softball

    By Tammye McDuff Celebrating the beginning of the youth baseball and softball spring season, the City of Artesia started the day with a pancake breakfast benefiting the youth…

Great NCAA March Madness Apps for iOS and Android

Great NCAA March Madness Apps for iOS and Android

Great article on by WGN.com on apps for your phone to listen to March Madness basketball games. Click here.   NCAA March Madness Live TuneIn Radio Bracket the Madness…

80’s Revisited: New Wave Restaurant in Bellflower

80’s Revisited: New Wave Restaurant in Bellflower

By Tammye McDuff The 80’s are totally back in full swing, with radical tunes and awesome threads; at least they are at the New Wave Restaurant & Bar in Bellflower.…

WRD Groundwater Festival Attended by Thousands

WRD Groundwater Festival Attended by Thousands

By Tammye McDuff Conserving water is nothing new to southern Californians. We’ve been doing it for years and our water efficient practices have set standards that distinguish us from the…

OP/ED: Central Basin’s Apodaca, Roybal, and Vasquez Inexplicably Vote to Settle Former GM’s Lawsuit

OP/ED: Central Basin’s Apodaca, Roybal, and Vasquez Inexplicably Vote to Settle Former GM’s Lawsuit

By Brian Hews   “Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.”- Joseph Wuld Krutch Given the voluminous amount of stories Hews Media Group-Community News has published in print…

CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION III-AA BOYS BASKETBALL FINALS Fourth quarter shots wouldn’t fall for Gahr, lose in final minutes to Sonora

CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION III-AA BOYS BASKETBALL FINALS Fourth quarter shots wouldn’t fall for Gahr, lose in final minutes to Sonora

          By Loren Kopff   ANAHEIM-The top two teams in the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Division III-AA played like they belonged in the championship game at…

Los Angeles Based BIZFED Campaign Committee Supporting Cerritos Candidates Violated Election Laws

Los Angeles Based BIZFED Campaign Committee Supporting Cerritos Candidates Violated Election Laws

By Brian Hews BizFed PAC (PAC), a political action committee sponsored by the Los Angeles Federation of Businesses (LAFB), recently sent out a very expensive City Council campaign flyer to…

El Rodeo Nightclub in Pico Rivera Raided by the DEA and FBI

El Rodeo Nightclub in Pico Rivera Raided by the DEA and FBI

  Staff Report HMG-CN has been told that the El Rodeo Nightclub in Pico Rivera was raided two days took by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance from…

19 Cultural Treasures Returned to the Government of Italy

19 Cultural Treasures Returned to the Government of Italy

HMG-CN Crime Wire   NEW YORK — Seven U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge offices returned 19 cultural treasures to the Italian government this week.…

Campaign Irregularities Mar Commerce City Council Election

Campaign Irregularities Mar Commerce City Council Election

Commerce based Citadel Outlets owner Steve Craig donated $40,000 to committee opposing current Councilwoman Denise Robles and leading candidate Hugo Argumedo. By Brian Hews, Feb, 12, 2013, 1:20 pm Hews Media…

Protesters Rebuke Central Basin Director Leticia Vasquez at Metropolitan Water District  Swearing-In  Ceremony

Protesters Rebuke Central Basin Director Leticia Vasquez at Metropolitan Water District  Swearing-In  Ceremony

By Brian Hews Embattled Central Basin Water Board (CB) Member Leticia Vasquez’ second go-round at becoming a member of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Board of Directors was met with…

Voter Suppression: Commerce Unexpectedly Moves Mar. 3 Polling Places

Voter Suppression: Commerce Unexpectedly Moves Mar. 3 Polling Places

By Brian Hews Residents of Commerce in and around certain areas have been going to the same polling place and casting their vote for over 30 years. Until this year,…

CAMENITA-CLOSURE: 36-hour Closure of Carmenita Road for Bridge Work

CAMENITA-CLOSURE: 36-hour Closure of Carmenita Road for Bridge Work

From Caltrans Norwalk and Sante Fe Springs – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will only allow local access to businesses on Carmenita Road from Alondra Boulevard to Firestone Boulevard…

Norwalk Councilman Luigi Vernola Honored for Charity Work

Norwalk Councilman Luigi Vernola Honored for Charity Work

  Norwalk Councilman Luigi Vernola receives a “Pride of the 58th” certificate of recognition from California Assemblywoman Christina Garcia from the 58th district. Vernola was honored for his work for…