LA VERNE – The CIF-SS Division 2A champion Downey girls volleyball team is taking on St. Lucy’s tonight at Damien High School in La Verne in the state championship tournament.
The game starts at 7 p.m.
The sixth-seeded Vikings girls beat third-seeded Madera to advance to the second round. St. Lucy’s is seeded second.
Here’s a link to …

DOWNEY -Today’s the last day to donate to the Wounded Warrior Project through Luis Meat Market in Downey. If you have any shopping to do, it’s a nice little market with good prices. Moises Rios and his parents are good people, too.
Here’s a link to the story.
Here’s a link to the market’s facebook.

DOWNEY – It’s heavy, expensive and loaded with technology.
And, as of Saturday, it’s officially in space.
About 30 viewers rolled out of bed early Saturday and went to Downey’s Columbia Memorial Space Center to see NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory blast into space.
Once it gets to Mars, the 10-foot-long rover, named Curiosity, will be  looking for microbes, …

DOWNEY -Although forecasts earlier this week predicted rain for today, experts now believe a Pacific storm could miss the region completely.
The National Weather Service is calling for a 20 percent chance of rain today, but most of the precipitation is expected in the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo areas.
Temperatures will still be cool, however, …

DOWNEY – After thinking it over, the family of Michael Nida has decided not to boycott Downey.
Nida’s sister Terri Teramura and other speakers at Tuesday’s City Council meeting said they would boycott Downey if the City Council did not start implementing changes requested by the family, such as taking MP5 sub-machine guns away from officers.
But …

[ November 26, 2011; 6:30 am; ] DOWNEY – The Columbia Memorial Space Center is hosting a viewing for the launch of a Mars space rover from 6:30 to 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26 at the center, 12400 Columbia Way.

The Mars Science Laboratory is scheduled to blast off toward Mars, where it is scheduled to land in early August. The space center …

DOWNEY – While Tuesday’s meeting was dominated by those who spoke on the killing of Michael Nida by a Downey police officer, the city faced a host of decisions involving major construction projects.
The city approved a contract with an attorney to help the city take land along several major streets, including Lakewood Boulevard and several …

DOWNEY – Family members of Michael Nida are calling for a boycott of Downey businesses.
Nida was shot to death Oct. 22 after twice running from police. He was unarmed.
Police said that on the night of the shooting they were looking for suspects of an armed robbery at a nearby ATM when they stopped Nida as …

DOWNEY – With about a dozen youth from the Kiwanis Green Team in attendance, the City Council on Tuesday gave final approval of an ordinance that almost completely bans smoking in parks and city events.
The members of the Green Team — along with about 50 other youths — pushed hard for the law despite resistance …

DOWNEY – The city’s unemployment rate has dropped an entire percentage point since the summer, according to state unemployment figures released this week.
Downey’s unemployment rate stands at 9.6 percent, which means about 5,100 residents are out of work. In August, 10.7 percent of the city’s workforce was out of a job. That’s compared to a …

DOWNEY -Police are looking for three men suspected of playing a part in a double shooting of two men Saturday on the 11400 block of Horton Avenue.
Police want to find Jose Zapata Jr, 29, of Downey and Orlando Villalobos, 30, of South Gate as well as a third unidentified man.
Police believe the three men were …

Check out the aftermath of the San Pedro landslide.