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The city of El Monte wants to clean up crime at local motels. City officials are concerned about the violence reported at the motels along Valley Boulevard and Garvey Avenue.

El Monte police Tuesday arrested a couple accused of trying to con a woman shopper at the Valley Mall, then abducting her and getting her to withdraw $400 from an automated teller machine last month.

Chalk one up to John Q. Public. That was the sentiment of the El Monte police department Tuesday after they arrested a man and a woman suspected in a December robbery and kidnapping, police said.

Several El Monte Transit bus routes have changed as of Jan. 1. The Blue Route will no longer serve westbound Bryant Road or southbound Santa Anita Avenue.

El Monte police asked for the public's help Saturday in finding a missing 14-year-old girl.

IT'S unofficial, but we hereby give the 2008 Local People of the Year Award to all taxpayers.

IN just two and a half weeks, President Barack Obama will take the oath of office in Washington, D.C. and on that day, he'll be taking one of the San Gabriel Valley's own with him.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger was swept into office in 2003 as a wildly unpopular governor lost a recall election, the message to voters was one of hope - yes, we can! Five years later, it seems to be nobody can.

Police on Tuesday asked for assistance locating a woman suspected of kidnapping and robbing another woman on Dec.

A man rammed to death by a motorist late Saturday night in South El Monte has been identified by the coroner's officials.

Police are looking for a suspect they say deliberately ran down a man with his car.

A man deliberately was struck and killed by a vehicle Sunday after an argument with the driver in South El Monte, sheriff's deputy said.

Joseph and Alicia Ortega came from Mexico and raised a large, loving family supported by the metal painting business they started in Southern California.

One of the last vestiges of the San Gabriel Valley's agricultural past will soon be gone.

A court battle is brewing over ownership rights to one of the world's largest emeralds.

Police are at the scene of what appears to be a hostage situation, officials said.

A gunman was killed and a six-year-old boy he snatched from the pavement was shot in the leg during a two-hour stand-off with police.

Manuel Benitez of Hawthorne was shot dead by police in an El Monte hostage situation.

Southern California police said a man who held a 7-year-old boy hostage for two hours was the child's father.

A motorcyclist has been taken to an area trauma center in critical condition after crashing in a residential neighborhood Wednesday, officials said.