Maywood News

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Orbitron The story of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Orbitron is as crazy and comical as Roth himself.

Police searched today for two men in their 20s who robbed a Maywood market at gunpoint and fled with more than $2,000 in cash, authorities said.

December 5 1938 Guitarist J.J. Cale is born in Oklahoma City. Eric Clapton made hits out of two of Cale's songs - "After Midnight" and "Cocaine." 1947 Jim Messina, guitarist for Loggins and Messina and Buffalo ...

Despite its multibillion-dollar construction project, the Los Angeles Unified School District might not return to a traditional, two-semester school year by 2012 as planned.

Los Angeles school officials are starting over on a high school project in Maywood because the preferred site is so contaminated by industrial chemicals that it would cost at least $22 million to clean up, ...

Michael Peevey, center, head of the California Emerging Technology Fund, displays oversized check for $476,000 which the state group presented Sept.

Marcela Herrera wiped sweat from her nose as the screeching sound of a saw cutting lumber mixed with mariachi music blaring from a house across the street.

Los Angeles Police Detectives are asking for the public's assistance in locating the suspects responsible for the murder of a bank security guard.

When Adnan Essayli set out to paint the outside of his La Palma home, he wanted a color resembling gold-toned travertine, like the stone-walled homes in his native Beirut.

Hazel Smith, a resident of the Alamitos West Health Care Center in Los Alamitos, turned 103 on July 30.

As stated in an earlier blog , Chicago recently increased local sales taxes, making rates in the city 10.25%. The rate, which is the highest in that nation, may soon rank second to Los Angeles.

A motorist fleeing after striking and injuring a woman in a crosswalk fatally barreled into a parked vehicle on a Bell street, police said Monday.

A motorist was killed when he crashed into a parked vehicle on a Maywood street after fleeing a hit-and-run accident, authorities said today.

Thousands of kids from Huntington Park, Maywood and Bell will be able to splash the summer away after the City of Vernon's donation to the Oldtimers Foundation to keep the area's only community pool open ...

Hortensia Magana was the owner of Diana s Mexican Food Products. Funeral services will be held today for Hortensia R. Magana, co-owner of Norwalk-based Diana's Mexican Food Products, which includes a string of ...

Hortensia R. Maga a, a South Bay restaurant owner and Latino activist who worked her way up from an immigrant factory worker to nationwide acclaim as owner of Diana's Mexican Food Products, has died.

International Philanthropist, Activist and Businesswoman RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif., July 7 RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.

A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed on a sidewalk in Maywood. "He was always happy and he always tried to go to school.

A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed Thursday night in Maywood, authorities said Friday.

Kream Krop Bakery at 2323 Manchester Blvd. in Inglewood has closed its doors after 46 years in business.