City Terrace News

East Los Angeles -- Garfield High School graduate Melissa Barales-Lopez left East Los Angeles four years ago with doubts and fear as she headed to New Hampshire to enroll in her freshman year at Dartmouth College.

East Los Angeles -- The history of East LA is written in its cemeteries and its restaurants. Depending on how you drive to Sofreh on 3rd Street, you may pass a Serbian Cemetery, a Chinese Cemetery, the Russian Molokan Cemetery, the Odd Fellows Cemetery, and numerous Jewish cemeteries.

The leader of La Luz del Mundo, a Mexican evangelical megachurch with a sanctuary in East Los Angeles, was sentenced today to 16 years and eight months in prison for sex crimes involving three underage girls. 

The leader of a Mexico-based evangelical megachurch with a large sanctuary in East Los Angeles is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday following his guilty plea to multiple sex-related charges involving minors, according to the state Attorney General's Office.

East Los Angeles --  A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a shootout earlier this week involving CHP officers and sheriff's transit deputies  that left another suspect wounded, authorities said today.

East Los Angeles -- A CHP officer came under fire this morning, prompting the officer and sheriff's deputies to return fire, wounding one person and prompting a search for a second suspect.

East Los Angeles: L.A. County officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week for a $37 million project that remade traffic medians to improve water quality and beautify the neighborhood.

East LA: Red Cross volunteers delivered Mother's Day treats to the residents of an apartment building on Ciela Avenue damaged by fire on Friday morning.

East Los Angeles -- A man was shot to death early this morning in the second homicide since Saturday, said authorities.

East Los Angeles -- A man in his 40s was fatally wounded in a Saturday night shooting, authorities said.

East Los Angeles -- Three people were killed early this morning when a car traveling "at a high rate of speed" crashed into a tree and caught fire.

Hoping to cut down on single-use plastics, the Board of Supervisors today moved to require restaurants and food facilities in East Los Angeles and other unincorporated areas to provide recyclable or compostable containers, cups, dishes and cutlery.

A man was killed in a gunfight on Whittier Boulevard Sunday night, authorities said.

The civilian commission charged with oversight of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced Thursday it will undertake a "full-scale investigation" into alleged deputy gangs operating within the agency.

East Los Angeles -- It’s a construction zone now. But in a few months, a former car sales lot along the 400 block of Atlantic Boulevard will be occupied by Esperanza College Prep, a charter high school.

East Los Angeles - A man was shot to death this afternoon in a possible gang-related shooting, according to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department.

East Los Angeles - One person was hospitalized following a car-to-car shooting Sunday night, said sheriff's Deputy Tracy Koerner of the Sheriff's Information Bureau.

Monique España and Melissa Portillo have seen it all. They are clinical social and psychiatric workers helping students at Garfield High deal with and heal from emotional wounds inflicted during the pandemic.

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, the first Mexican-American woman elected to Congress, announced Monday she will not run for reelection in 2022.

EAST LOS ANGELES -- One person was rushed to a hospital from a second-alarm fire this morning at a two-story strip mall, authorities said.

East Los Angeles -- Omar Vargas is concerned about the cars tearing through neighborhood streets at breakneck speeds.

A gang member convicted of opening fire on two Whittier police officers, killing one and wounding the other, along with killing a man in East Los Angeles earlier the same morning, was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

East Los Angeles - Sheriff's homicide detectives today are investigating the stabbing death of a woman in her 20s, authorities said.

East Los Angeles -- An L.A. County Sheriff's SUV slammed into a traffic-light pole this morning, heavily damaging the vehicle and injuring two deputies.

East Los Angeles -- When Juan and Candy Villa purchased La Azteca Tortilleria in 2010, they had no idea how to make handmade tortillas or how to run a business.

East Los Angeles -- Two L.A. County sheriff's deputies came under fire today but were not injured, and authorities were seeking the suspect or suspects involved.

East Los Angeles - Detectives today were investigating a Sunday night shooting that left a woman dead.

The new Queer Mercado, launched a few months ago in East Los Angeles, is brimming with personality — bassy party music, colorful booths selling candles and clothes, and even a dancer in unicorn garb.