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Rosehedge Drive in Pico Rivera Scene of Deadly Deputy Involved Shooting

Rosehedge Drive in Pico Rivera Scene of Deadly Deputy Involved Shooting

10:32 p.m. UPDATE: This situation began unfolding on Friday, August 1, 2014, at  approx. 5:30PM;  Location is at 9000 Block of Rosehedge Drive, Pico Rivera; the suspect is an armed male…

Central Basin Director Leticia Vasquez Linked to Leaked FBI Subpoena

Central Basin Director Leticia Vasquez Linked to Leaked FBI Subpoena

CBMWD tells HMG-CN that only two Directors had the subpoena. By Brian Hews and Brian Hews (Commerce) Officials at the Central Basin Municipal Water District are demanding that the United…

Details on Felony Arrest of West Basin Water Director Ronald Smith Emerge

Details on Felony Arrest of West Basin Water Director Ronald Smith Emerge

 By Brian Hews Details of the arrest of West Basin Municipal Water District Director Ronald Smith have been obtained by Hews Media Group-Community Newspaper on Friday morning. HMG-CN can confirm…

EXCLUSIVE: Ronald Smith, West Basin Water District Director Arrested

EXCLUSIVE: Ronald Smith, West Basin Water District Director Arrested

UPDATE, Thursday, July 31, 10 a.m. The West Basin Municipal Water District has issued the following statement regarding the arrest of Director Ronald Smith to Hews Media Group-Community Newspaper. “West…

District Attorney Cites Impropriety on Secret Meeting Held by Cerritos Mayor-Pro Tem Chen

District Attorney Cites Impropriety on Secret Meeting Held by Cerritos Mayor-Pro Tem Chen

By Brian Hews Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey cited “potential impropriety” and as a result will not be formally prosecuting Cerritos Mayor Pro-Tem Carol Chen after Hews Media Group-Community Newspapers…

Skyy Fisher Arrest Compton School Board Member Charged With Oral Copulation

Skyy Fisher Arrest Compton School Board Member Charged With Oral Copulation

UPDATE: Monday, July 28, 2014 COURT DOCUMENTS OBTAINED BY HEWS MEDIA GROUP-COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER REGARDING CASE AGAINST SKYY FISHER.     UPDATE: Monday, July 28, Noon Hews Media Group-Community Newspaper received…

Teresa Jacobo, Ex-Bell City Councilwoman Sentenced to State Prison For Two Years

Teresa Jacobo, Ex-Bell City Councilwoman Sentenced to State Prison For Two Years

Hews Media Group-Community Newspaper BREAKING NEWS! Former Bell City Councilwoman Teresa Jacobo was sentenced today to two years in state prison and ordered to pay more than $242,000 in restitution to…

OP/ED: Cerritos College Hides the Truth by Clamping Down on the Press

OP/ED: Cerritos College Hides the Truth by Clamping Down on the Press

By Brian Hews Publisher HMG-CN Talk about a slippery slope. This newspaper has found through a public records request via the Freedom of Information Act that several high-ranking Cerritos College…

Artesia Tony Mayor Lima Slams Proposed Smoking Ban at Condos, Apartments

Artesia Tony Mayor Lima Slams Proposed Smoking Ban at Condos, Apartments

By Rico Dizon Over the objections of his four fellow members in the City Council, Artesia Mayor Tony Lima expressed his strong and firm opposition to the proposed smoking ban…

Virginia Street Widening Project Celebrated in Bellflower

Virginia Street Widening Project Celebrated in Bellflower

By Tammye McDuff The widening of Virginia Avenue has been long in coming. Since the early 1940’s, a Bellflower resident has owned half of the street, with a private home…

Cerritos Tennis Club Planning 40th Reunion Celebration

Cerritos Tennis Club Planning 40th Reunion Celebration

By Brian Hews The Cerritos Tennis Club has been one of the most active community organizations in the greater Southeast Los Angeles county area for the past 40 years, and…

Mayor Pro-Tem Luis Marquez Owes Downey Coffers $54K, Colleagues Contend

Mayor Pro-Tem Luis Marquez Owes Downey Coffers $54K, Colleagues Contend

By Tammye McDuff Back in November 2013, the Downey City Council was in a heated and contentious debate over who should be serving in the capacity of Mayor Pro-Tem. Fernando…

Downey Parents Alerted Via Phone About ‘Human Trafficking’ Flyers

Downey Parents Alerted Via Phone About ‘Human Trafficking’ Flyers

By Tammye McDuff Downey Unified School District and parents of students received an alarming and unusual notification last week to warn the community about flyers that were being distributed in…

Bellflower USD ‘Contract Drivers’ Broke Laws, Used Drugs, Union Leaders Claim

Bellflower USD ‘Contract Drivers’ Broke Laws, Used Drugs, Union  Leaders Claim

By Tammye McDuff A powerful school employee group blasted members of the Bellflower Unified School District Board of Education this past week claiming that independent, non-school district employees working as…

Church in Bellflower Files Civil Rights Lawsuit against Mayor, Council

Church in Bellflower Files Civil Rights Lawsuit against Mayor, Council

By Brian Hews A Bellflower based church and minister have filed a lawsuit claiming that city council members have actively engaged in a pattern of discrimination and that their religious…

Central Basin Water Director Vasquez’ Whistleblower Lawsuit Rebuked by Judge

Central Basin Water Director Vasquez’ Whistleblower Lawsuit Rebuked by Judge

  By Brian Hews and Randy Economy Embattled Central Basin Municipal Water Director Leticia Vasquez’s Qui Tam “whistleblower” lawsuit that alleged past illegal activities at the Commerce based water wholesaler suffered a…

Erik Bosques Left Suicide Note on Facebook before Leaping off Vincent Thomas Bridge

Erik Bosques Left Suicide Note on Facebook before Leaping off Vincent Thomas Bridge

By Brian Hews A 20-year old San Pedro man has ended his life by leaping from the famed Vincent Thomas Bridge into the harbor and his own suicide note was…

Artesia Resident Shane Matos Arrested on DUI Charges After Colliding Into a Lakewood Sheriff Deputy

Artesia Resident Shane Matos Arrested on DUI Charges After Colliding Into a Lakewood Sheriff Deputy

7:46 p.m. Monday UPDATE: Suspect Matos will be appearing in Bellflower Superior Court on Tuesday, July 22 at 8:30 a.m. and has been held in custody since the arrest took…

Possible Armed Suspect Detained at South Street and Norwalk Boulevard

Possible Armed Suspect Detained at South Street and Norwalk Boulevard

By Brian Hews Deputies with the Lakewood and Cerritos Sheriff’s Stations have detained a possibly armed male adult suspect at South Street and Norwalk Boulevard in Artesia on Friday morning,…

BREAKING: Sheriff’s investigate shooting in Norwalk near Carmenita and Rosecrans

BREAKING: Sheriff’s investigate shooting in Norwalk near Carmenita and Rosecrans

By Brian Hews A shooting has taken place near the intersection of Carmenita Road and Rosecrans Avenue in Norwalk on Thursday night, Hews Media Group-Community Newspaper can confirm. According to…