DOWNEY – Officials from retailer Best Buy have apologized to the family of a mentally retarded man after employees at the chain’s Downey Landing location called the police on the man, leading to him being searched by officers in front of the store.
Michael Ceniceros, 24, has adrenoleukodystrophy, a disease that causes his body to attack …
DOWNEY – The city is hosting a supervisorial redistricting information meeting at 6 p.m. tonight at the Columbia Memorial Space Center, 12400 Columbia Way.
The City Council this month voted 5-0 in favor of staying in Supervisor Don Knabe’s fourth supervisorial district. Supervisors Gloria Molina and Mark Ridley-Thomas have proposed new district maps calling for major …
Downey Unified posted big gains on statewide tests, according to the annual school report card released Wednesday.
The district increased its Annual Performance Index (API) score by 17 points to 788, outpacing the 11-point statewide increase.
But several subgroups in the district failed to meet growth targets, which means the district will keep its “program improvement” status …
DOWNEY – Police on Tuesday arrested a Downey man on suspicion of kidnapping after his ex-wife accused him of forcing her to ride in a car around the city against her will.
Jesse E. Martinez, 39, is accused of going to his ex-wife’s home in Downey on Sunday and forcing her to get into the car …
Six cars were stolen from Downey streets on Tuesday.
Downey has some of the highest rates of car theft in the state, with some 1,000 cars stolen annually, according to police statistics.
On Tuesday, cars were stolen from:
100 block of Stonewood Street at 12:52 a.m.
8500 block of Boyson Street at 5:03 a.m.
8200 block of Puritan street at …
NORWALK – He was a 5-foot, 5-inches tall and 120 pounds, and those tiny dimensions may have been what made former Warren High School soccer player Carlos Ornelas great, according to his family, friends and former coaches.
About 1,000 people showed up Tuesday to a Cerritos College soccer game dedicated to the lives of Ornelas and …
UPDATE, 8/31/11: Scores released
DOWNEY – Just days before the state releases data used to grade schools, Downey Unified School Board member Don LaPlante lambasted the federal No Child Left Behind program, calling it “a disaster.”
The state on Wednesday is scheduled to release the Accountability Progress Report.
In the alphabet soup of education releases, the APR has …
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Thousands of people are expected to attend Tuesday’s Cerritos College soccer game, which will be dedicated to the memories of former players Carlos Ornelas and Eddie Valencia.
Ornelas, a 21-year-old former standout at Warren High, died in a car crash Aug. 13 when a truck he was riding in crashed in eastern Utah. The crash killed …
A bill by State Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach would ban restaurants from serving food in polystyrene containers.
The bill, SB 568, passed out of the state senate and has moved to the Assembly. If it were to become law, California would be the only state in the nation to have banned polystyrene, commonly known as …
[ September 30, 2011; 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The city is hosting the 2011 Taste of Downey from 5:30 to 9 p.m. near Downey City Hall, 11111 Brookshire Ave.
The event will feature music and food from about 30 restaurants.
Tickets go on sale Sept. 6.
For more information, go to the city’s 2011 Taste of Downey page or call Kim Sodetani at 562-904-7151.
[ September 22, 2011; 10:00 am; ] Downey Police are unveiling a memorial to officer Wayne Presley at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 in front of the Downey Police Station, 10911 S. Brookshire Ave.
Presley was killed by a drunken driver in 1981 and is the only Downey officer ever killed in the line of duty.
For more information, call (562) 904-2301.