City Terrace News

East Los Angeles -- Belvedere Elementary School is one of the school district’s oldest campuses.

East Los Angeles -- Felony charges have been filed against a sheriff's deputy involved in the fatal shooting of a 34-year-old man in full view of his relatives, who said the man was in the midst of a mental health crisis at the time.

City Terrace -- A man was fatally shot early this morning, according to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department.

East Los Angeles -- A man was in custody today for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death.

East Los Angeles–Sheriff's detectives are searching for a man who fatally stabbed a woman believed to be his girlfriend on Friday night.

East Los Angeles -- Former Dodger pitcher Fernando Valenzuela waves to the crowd gathered Sunday morning for the East Los Angeles Mexican Independence Day Parade.

East Los Angeles -- A person was found dead this morning inside a parked van near the center divider of the southbound 710 Freeway, authorities said.

East Los Angeles -- The five-story El Nuevo Amanecer apartments were only a few months from completion when a giant fire destroyed the affordable housing project two years ago. 

East Los Angeles -- A person died Sunday evening in a crash between a pocket bike and a vehicle.

East Los Angeles -- The county sheriff's department today is investigating the fatal stabbing of a man in the Nueva Maravilla Housing Community.

East Los Angeles -- When the new school year begins next Monday, classes at Griffith STEAM Magnet Middle School will begin at 8 am -- four minutes later than last semester.

East Los Angeles --  A man suspected of shooting at sheriff's deputies Friday afternoon was arrested.

Last May, county officials gathered on Northside Drive to celebrate the completion of a project that transformed a wide traffic median into a mini park. But a few blocks east, Sergio Vera and his neighbors near Northside Drive and Montebello Park Way were not in a celebratory mood.

East Los Angeles -- One man was killed and a second wounded in a shooting this morning near the junction of the 60 and 710 freeways.

East Los Angeles -- A motorcyclist was killed Sunday evening in a collision with a vehicle.

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.