La Puente

Hector Martinez Arrested For Allegedly Blocking 10 Freeway For Marriage Proposal

That January marriage proposal that shut down the 10 freeway in West Covina has come home to roost. All we can say is, Hope it was worth it. The California Highway Patrol today said groom-to-be Hector Martinez was arrested along with some of his follow motorcycle enthusiasts who allegedly helped h ... More >>

Kevin Lives on Our Couch:"Aged out" of foster care, L.A. teens are put on the street, expected to be instant adults

32 Chihuahuas Seized From La Puente Home

A woman found with 32 chihuahuas and chihuahua mixes living inside her La Puente home told officers she was just trying to save them from life on the suburban streets of east L.A. County. According to Aaron Reyes at the county's Department of Animal Care and Control, his department was summoned to ... More >>

DUI Suspect Drives Lexus Through Wall of Cinder Block, Into La Puente Swimming Pool

The stop sign on Delvale Street and Orange Avenue wasn't enough to keep Modesto Cabral, a 40-year-old La Puente resident, from giving his 2006 Lexus GS430 a nice Sunday-morning bath in the Diaz family's (perfectly Lexus-sized) swimming pool. According to the California Highway Patrol, the family aw ... More >>

Grace, the Hero Dog of La Puente, Gets Adopted by Good Samaritan: VIDEO

Update: The owner comes forward and reveals Grace's real name. See next page. That was fast! Last week in La Puente, Grace the labrador became an Internet sensation by standing vigil over her car-struck, dead, canine comrade on Hacienda Boulevard. A local resident, worried that Grace would get hit ... More >>

Connor Penhall, 21-Year-Old Caltrans Worker and Son of Racer/Actor Bruce Penhall, Killed by Alleged Drunk Driver

Updated after the jump: Caltrans responds, and the ghost of Penhall expresses unhappiness with his job. Originally posted at 8:30 a.m. The victim of a late-night crash on the 10 West has been identified as 21-year-old Connor Penhall, a Caltrans subcontractor and the son of racer-turned-actor Bruc ... More >>

Marijuana Crackdown in Southern California as Feds Move to Take Assets of Four Dispensaries

Bad times for pot shops in Southern California. Dispensary operators in Long Beach were recently convicted for ... selling weed. L.A. City Hall's move to ban them outright is gaining momentum. And today the U.S. Attorney's Office announced that it's going to take everything that belongs to targeted ... More >>

205 Imperial Highway, La Puente: Ye Olde Tuscan House of Pancakes Chapel & Sportsbar

Try to pin down the original purpose of this building -- was it a Black Angus Steakhouse? Dancehall? Place of worship? All three simultaneously? 205 Imperial Highway in La Puente is the kind of building-as-sausage that occurs when a property is re-purposed over and over, added to, covered-up or sla ... More >>

Rose Gudiel, Valley Resident Facing Foreclosure, to 'Occupy' Offices of Mortgage Giant Fannie Mae

Update: Gudiel was arrested, along with her mother and seven other protesters, at the Fannie Mae offices yesterday, about an hour into the sit-in. However, her supporters quickly bailed her out. The group is currently gathering for a march downtown, where Gudiel is planning to make "an announcement. ... More >>

EPA Orders $20 Million Worth of Groundwater Cleanup to Help Residents of San Gabriel Valley

​Tap water has a bad rap these days. And in many cases, for good reason. There's an awful lot of groundwater contamination out there. But for those folks living in the San Gabriel Valley who - God forbid - like being able to actually drink their tap water, there was a splash of good news today ... More >>

National Donut Day: 5 Classic L.A. Donut Shops You Can't Miss

Remember when a Du-par's donut was coated in an inch-thick raft of frosting, spread, it seemed, by a very generous hand? Neither do we, but our friends who grew up in Los Angeles do, and they still talk about it with reverence. In the absence of that, here are five of LA's classic, old-school donu ... More >>

Kid Congo Powers: The Abrasive and the Beautiful

Ex Gun Club, Cramps guitarist revisits the early L.A. punk scene with Gorilla Rose

Sutan Amrull: King of the Queens

Cockfight in San Gabriel Valley Busted in the Act: Dead Roosters Found, Three Men Arrested For Watching Bout

LASDCockfighting accessories.​A major cockfight was broken up over the weekend in the San Gabriel Valley community of Valinda (near West Covina). Authorities said they found several dead roosters. What impressed us about this particular avian bout was that it was allegedly happening in the mo ... More >>

Federal Agents Bring The Pain Against 'East Side Pain' Gangsters In Los Angeles

The feds say East Side Pain moved weight.​We're telling you, if criminal organizations switched to old-timey names like the Eastside Benevolent Society and dressed in suits like the guys in Boardwalk Empire, there would be no heat. When you belong to a set called "East Side Pain," you display ... More >>

Sweeps in Los Angeles Suburbs Create Fear, say Anti-Police Brutality Activists

San Gabriel Valley TribuneWilmington raids net 41 suspects​ Probation violators received some unexpected guests on Thursday after county probation officers, along with state and federal agents, descended upon multiple locations throughout Covina, Glendale, Monrovia, Pasadena and San Gabriel, ... More >>

Creepy La Puente House With Built-In Jail Cells To Be Demolished

​A La Puente house with two jail cells in the back and caves underneath was scheduled to be demolished by the county Thursday after officials deemed it was uninhabitable and took control of the property, authorities said. Sheriff's investigators looked into whether the home was used as a stas ... More >>

Family Of Barbara Ware, Victim Of Grim Sleeper, Reflect On An Eventful Week

Updated: Now with photos. Ted SoquiDiana Ware, step-mom of Barbara Ware​ Larina Corlew needed to be in Church Sunday. "Church is a good place to be because it reinforces the need to forgive," she said. "But it's hard." Corlew's beloved step-sister Barbara Ware was murdered in 1987 by the so ... More >>

The 2010 Donut Summit: Your Entry Fee Is A Dozen Donuts

Flickr/robjtakDonut Man's Strawberry Donut​It's no news that our city is a paradise for donut junkies. With stores on almost every corner cooking up ring shaped dough, it's hard to keep up with which kitchens have the best glazed donut or apple fritters. The people at Metblogs will bring us on ... More >>

Station Fire Update: Killed L.A. firefighter's baby due

The Los Angeles County Fire Department released two sad biographies of the firefighters who were killed when a boiling wall of flames suddenly appeared near a remote road where they were driving. Their vehicle went over the side, plummeting 800 feet down a cliff. Arnie Quinones, horribly, is expecti ... More >>

Northrop Grumman-U.S. Agreements: Cause and Effect?

Nuclear aircraft carrier T. Roosevelt​Call it robbing the Pentagon to pay Paul. Wednesday  defense-contracting giant Northrop Grumman announced it had won two bids with the Army and Navy worth nearly $6 billion -- then Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency said it had reached a settlem ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Oscar Nominations Announced The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads pack but, Dude, where's my Gran Torino?Van Nuys Community Seeks Asylum -- In Sherman Oaks L.A. Daily News' Rick Orlov reports on an another group of Van Nuys residents who want to break away from V.N. and be rebranded as part of S ... More >>

Crullers That Bloom in Spring

Time to see the Donut Man

Flying High With the Vicious Ladies

Drugs, death, drama, gangs... how’s a teenage, all-girl party crew supposed to stay on top?

The Giant Doughnuts of Los Angeles

The Filthiest 48 Hours

Lies and distortions that fill the mailbox just before Election Day

Because Nobody Walks in L.A.

Here are a few of our favorite drive-thrus . . .

Supermax Explodes

An inmate’s wife and a sheriff come to terms with a riot

Stench of Politics

Industry money to the “Mod Caucus” fouls the fight for clean air

Rainbow Bright Eyexyk

Coffee and Dessert

Mex 2 the Max

These Are the People Who Died

2004 flier-party body count

Happy Balloons and Homicide

Entering the dangerous world of flier parties

Where To Eat Now: Drive Thru

Calculating Moves

Latino Caucus can’t come up with alternative budget

All in the Familia

One man’s dogged pursuit of his drug cartel in-laws

Up All Night

On patrol with one good cop

Driving While Hungry

L.A. County's 10

Death-row inmates and mental retardation

Who Should Die?

Pushing the Envelopes

Testify

Rat Patrol