Just a few hours before the Taste of Downey, a freak thunderstorm is moving toward the city.
South Gate is getting drenched and the storm is headed east, according to news reports.
The National Weather Service predicted a slight chance for thunderstorms during its late morning forecast.
More than 250 small business owner’s showed up to a workshop offered by Supervisor Don Knabe’s office Thursday where they were anxious to learn about a new program that gives them a big advantage on bids for county contracts.
It was the area’s first county workshop since the supervisors voted to increase the county’s small-business bid …
Police are looking for a 36-year-old man accused of having a months-long sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
According to the Downey Police, Enrique Vasquez Rodriguez would sneak off with the girl for sex without the knowledge of her parents. After the girl’s parents found out about the relationship, they called the police.
The relationship began between …
I considered taking the Metrolink train to Don Knabe’s Safe Surrender 10-year-anniversary celebration in Los Angeles on Wednesday, so I drove down to the Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs train station.
But I couldn’t park my car because I didn’t have a permit. No problem, I thought. There were hundreds of empty parking spaces.
I asked the price for …
DOWNEY – Armed with jars filled with 4,000 cigarette butts, a team of Downey youths are again pushing for a law that would ban cigarettes at area parks.
About 20 children from the Kiwanis Green Team met at the Downey City Library on Wednesday to discuss strategies and talk about the sheer amount of cigarette butts …
A Downey Marine is charged with maintaining and fabricating guns.
The military puts these out from time to time to help citizens keep track of our fighters.
DOWNEY — It looks like the city might end up having an art committee after all, albeit a much smaller one.
Councilman Mario Guerra at Tuesday’s council meeting asked the city’s staff to look into creating an art in public places subcommittee made of two council members.
The subcommittee would meet with local artists and then report …
With her 6-year-old daughter Tessa leaning on her shoulder, Donna Leavitt couldn’t stop crying.
Tessa’s biological mother six years ago left her newborn baby at Los Angeles County Fire Station 15 in Whittier and never came back.
As Leavitt on Wednesday watched a video presentation of families that adopted children through the county’s Safe Surrender program, her …
After six hours of testimony and a closed-door meeting, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas on Tuesday changed his vote at the last minute and ended a months-long effort by he and Supervisor Gloria Molina to create an additional Latino-majority district.
On a 4-1 vote with Molina dissenting, the Board of Supervisors approved a plan proposed by Supervisor Don …
UPDATE: Ridley-Thomas switches vote, Knabe’s plan wins
After six hours of testimony, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday failed to reach a consensus on boundaries for new supervisorial districts.
Supervisors Gloria Molina and Mark Ridley-Thomas submitted maps that would have realigned districts to form a second district with a Latino majority. Both plans would have shifted millions …
DOWNEY – For Realtors, it’s been a rough four years since the housing market peaked in 2007.
Prices are down 40-to-60 percent. The summer home-sales season was the worst on record. And banks generally aren’t willing to budge from a 20-percent down payment requirement from new buyers.
With all that in mind, Downey’s Realtors this week threw …
SOUTH GATE – The City Council tonight is scheduled to honor a bank teller who used a cell phone to alert her brother and his friends about a man who tried to steal a woman’s gold chain.
Marcela Uscanga, Umberto Uscanga, Cesar Alcala and Carla Garcia are credited with helping run down a robber in May …