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Diamond Bar

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Marijuana Worth $4 Million Found in Diamond Bar Home: PHOTOS

    Cops acting on a tip discovered $4 million worth of marijuana in a Diamond Bar house, sheriff's officials said today. In a statement deputies called the operation "an elaborate marijuana grow system" that included the alleged theft of more than $100,000 worth of electricity, ostensibly for grow lig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    USC Hosts Weekend Seminar to Educate Current Politicians on Ethics, Transparency; L.A. Mayor Attends Kentucky Derby Instead

    The University of Southern California isn't just for strapping young scholars anymore. Today and tomorrow, the USC Price School of Public Policy begins an ongoing series of classes that will school current politicians in "public transparency and ethics, leadership, governance and environmental polic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Woodys Toys' Money Laundering Scheme Funneled $6 Million in 'Narco Cash,' Feds Say

    With a name like Woody's Toys, it has to be good. Good meaning bad. At least according to federal authorities, who this week threw the book at two co-owners, three employees and two clients of the City of Industry toy wholesaler for allegedly doing way more than importing toys. A two-count indictm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    State Republican Leaders Get in Bed With ... Villaraigosa (!?) in Bid For Post-Miramonte Teacher Reform

    Strange bedfellows have arisen from the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal in which two teachers face charges for lewd conduct and a slew of allegations have hit educators at other area campuses. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who once vowed to take over the L.A. school district and wh ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2012

    Backyards in Diamond Bar and Other Oddities

    Strange bedfellows have arisen from the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal in which two teachers face charges for lewd conduct and a slew of allegations have hit educators at other area campuses. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who once vowed to take over the L.A. school district and wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Art With Dinosaurs to Relay Racing

    This week, the stories behind the art are at least as interesting as the art itself, like the one about a small insurance company that started a big art collection, and the photographer who documented Diamond Bar. 5. Anonymous Letters Odeya Nini, an experimental composer whose music moves between ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Holiday Food Drive Roundup

    Bellmore Library​Did you stock up on too much food for the holidays? Any Thanksgiving non-perishable leftovers? Make the most out of it and donate to these local food drives. According to the L.A. Regional Food Bank, the most coveted food products are rice, beans, canned meat, canned vegetable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Will Latinos Force White Republican Don Knabe off L.A. County Board of Supes, via 'Racial Gerrymandering'?

    Long Beach PostSupervisor Don Knabe, looking particularly white in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade​Is Don Knabe is on the verge of getting swallowed by L.A. County's rising Latino tide? The two minority members on the five-person L.A. County Board of Supervisors -- Gloria Molina and Mark Ri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Sheng Chen Ran Hostess Club Out of San Gabriel Valley House, Authorities Say

    Dernier ExileLadies of the mic.​If you're to believe the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, 38-year-old Sheng Hui Chen is a brave, shit-talking man. In fact, they claim, he pretty much made a lifestyle of it. Not only did Chen allegedly extort mom-and-pop Chinese immigrants by saying he was a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Carmen Montelongo, Grandmother Accused of Carting Body Parts in Trash Can, Allegedly Buried Other Remains in L.A. County

    Carmen.​The story of the Inland Empire grandmother allegedly caught wheeling body parts down the street in a trash can the other day only gets stranger. As we told you, the woman was spotted carting the can down the street in Ontario. Neighbors alerted authorities not only because the thing s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

    MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Asian-on-Asian Hate Crime Alleged as Four Arrested in Connection With a Takeout-Food Beat-Down in San Gabriel Valley

    YouTube / LAPDAsian-on-Asian hate crime is alleged in the SGV.​Asian-on-Asian hate crime? In L.A., yes. And over a man's heritage as he tried to get takeout food of a different culture, no less. The victim was beaten, had his car pummeled, and was robbed because, authorities say, he is Chines ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Two Dead After Head-On Collision With Mercedes-Benz Speeding Wrong Way in 91 East Carpool Lane

    eurotuner.comA 1996 Mercedes C220 like the one that plowed into oncoming traffic last night​Updated after the jump: The victims were 24-year-old Vanessa Cease of Long Beach and 26-year-old Alan Reyes of Diamond Bar. Friends say they were a couple. The driver who sped into oncoming traffic was ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2011

    Stop Making Payments to Win Loan Modification?

    JPMorgan Chase customer finds himself in loan mod hell for following bank's suggestion

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2010

    YouTube Video Of Speeding Nissan GT-R Helps Bust Driver For Alleged Insurance Fraud

    YouTube​A YouTube video showing a Nissan GT-R sports car crashing helped bolster the state's case against a Diamond Bar brother and sister accused of filing a false insurance claims to cover repairs on the vehicle. (See the video after the jump). Insurance commissioner Steve Poizner, who's ru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Ed Roski Jr. Sells 'Los Angeles Stadium' to the O.C.

    The San Gabriel Valley Trib's James Wagner reports on the new tone of self-confidence (or hubris) displayed by mega-developer Ed Roski Jr. and representatives of his Majestic Realty Company. Roski's long political fight to build a 75,000-seat sports stadium/retail complex in the City of Industry see ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    NFL Stadium Hits County Roadblock

    Super-developer Ed Roski's plans to erect a nearly 600-acre football stadium and retail complex in Industry received a bit of a no-confidence vote today when the L.A. County Board of Supervisors recommended that Sacramento not grant Industry an exemption from a state-required environmental review of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    New Football Stadium Still Blocked by Walnut

    Walnut is proving a tough nut to crack, as far as Majestic Realty is concerned. Majestic is the company owned by super-developer Ed Roski, who is trying to plunk a professional football stadium down at the crossroads of the 55 and 60 freeways, in the city of Industry. The city council of that fair t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Pot Canyon: Massive Marijuana Seizure

    On the maps it's designated as Sycamore Canyon, but to sheriff's deputies working in DiamondLeo Jarzomb/SGVT Bar it may as well be called Pot Canyon. Today an estimated $25 million worth of plants were ripped from their irrigated beds, a stone's throw from a community center and suburban homes. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 129: Redlands Woman Found Dead in Van by Los Angeles Hospital Personnel

    Redlands homicide detectives are investigating the strangling death of a 49-year-old woman after her estranged boyfriend drove to the Good Samaritan Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles -- with her body in his car. Redlands Police Department According to Redlands Police Department spokesma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    60 Freeway Killer Pleads Guilty to Two More Murders

    The "60 Freeway Killer" pleaded guilty today to killing two women, more than twenty years ago. Ivan Hill, 48, was already serving a death sentence for the strangulation murders of six women who were found dead along the Pomona (60) Freeway when DNA linked him to the two additional murders. 60 Fre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Industry's Stadium Woes: Walnut Won't Be Cracked

    Diamond Bar's city council may have folded under the millions of dollars its town was offered to cooperate, but Walnut is still suing Industry to get its neighbor to halt the giant rubber stamp that's been hammering overtime to clear the way for an $800 million NFL stadium. Thanks to Curbed L.A., fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    Intentional Grounding: Diamond Bar Drops Stadium Suit

    Diamond Bar residents awoke today to learn their city council had unanimously accepted $21 million from neighboring Industry to drop a lawsuit against Industry's proposed football stadium. The 75,000-seat venue, a project of L.A. developer Ed Roski, is budgeted to cost $800 million and be completed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    From Yellow Cab to Green? Santa Monica's angst now extends to worrying whether it has too many polluting taxis, driven by impolite cabbies. A freeze is in the works. L.A. TimesBill Commemorating the Other Holocaust Once more Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Glendale) will introduce a bill to commemorate t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Waiting for Wal-Mart Far from fearing a big-box store, job-hungry Florence-Firestone residents are petitioning to get a Wal-Mart put in their community. L.A. TimesHeal the Aquarium An octopus exploring its tank at the Santa Monica Aquarium loosened a water-control valve, flooding the facility with m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Stadium Protests Begin Residents of Diamond Bar and Walnut organized the first of what promises to be many protests against Ed Roski's dream to bring an NLF team to Industry -- and the stadium he'll build. San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports.Feds Investigating L.A. Cops An L.A. Times story reveals th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Industry Stadium: Years Before Kickoff

    Today City of Industry's city council rubber-stamped approval of a plan to build a football stadium on vacant land near the nexus of the 60 and 57 Freeways. The vote followed Tuesday's  victory of a $150 million bond measure, which was passed by 60 of Industry's 82 registered voters. The build- ... More >>

  • News

    July 21, 2005

    Welcome to Inglewood — Leave Your Aspirations Behind

    For Erin Aubry Kaplan, coming home has been a labor of tough love

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Flamethrowers to Framecams

    Cool new car stuff

  • Eat+Drink

    April 1, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Cool new car stuff

  • Columns

    March 18, 2004

    Flow, Baby, Flow

    1 command center, 7 engineers, 3.000 wired intersections and 12,000 sensors in the pavement add up to the world’s most advanced traffic-control system

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Lord of the Race

    Serving on two powerful air-quality boards., L.A. Marathon founder William Burke sets a fast pace. But it just might be when he crosses the finish line, the public — and clean air — are the big losers.

  • News

    February 19, 2004

    We Endorse

    L.A. Weekly’s recommendations in the major contested races of the March 2 primary

  • News

    February 5, 2004

    Hollywood Rap

    Tired of movie roles going to rappers, the Fronterz crew made a movie about it

  • Columns

    October 9, 2003

    Goldberg and the Guv

    Tired of movie roles going to rappers, the Fronterz crew made a movie about it

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    Pool Man

    Neck-Deep in the living waters

  • Calendar

    October 5, 2000

    MTA Game Plan

    The poor walk, so that the middle class can shrink

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    Baca's Debacle

    Sheriff Lee Baca Relied Heavily on two Controversial Campaign Supporters to Set up His Asian Crime Task Force. Now Both Men Have Drawn FBI Scrutiny, and the New Sheriff's Reputation is on the Line

  • News

    January 14, 1999

    The Last Roll Call

    The cop funeral as civic pageant

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Dog Fight

    Fur flies over kill rate at LA animal shelters

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