The City Council and Redevelopment Agency will consider the new city logo and motto at the council's meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 425 S. Mission Drive.

Justice for Homicide Victims/Justice For Murdered Children presents a clinic for crime victims, featuring presentations by the county District Attorney's Office, Sheriff's Department and the Superior Court system, will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Sept. 18 at the Sheriff's Department's headquarters, 4700 Ramona Blvd.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday approved a project to reconstruct and resurface Pathfinder Road and Alexdale Lane to 300 feet west of Brea Canyon Cutoff in Rowland Heights.

In a spat of incidents that recalls similar crimes throughout the San Gabriel Valley - and nationwide - last year, Asian business owners in Monterey Park last week reported threatening calls from perpetrators demanding money in exchange for supposed hostages.

IRWINDALE - A man whose body was found inside an Irwindale storage locker is believed to have been beaten to death by his son, authorities said Saturday.

When Frank Foley lost his job in November 2008, he never expected his displacement would last for almost two years, shuffling him through a list of part-time jobs and costing him his apartment.

Houses used solely to grow marijuana have been springing up around the San Gabriel Valley and investigators said they're supplying the drug to pot dispensaries.

POMONA - The "largest county fair in the world" kicked off a month of food and entertainment during a scorching hot opening day Saturday. Traditional favorites such as rides, games and, of course, food, greeted visitors along with brand new attractions at the 88th L.A. County Fair.

A survey of legal fees paid out by area cities shows that communities with their own police departments spent the most money on lawyers in the fiscal year 2009-10.

Twelve-year-old Ileana Vasquez knows what it takes to be a role model. The West Covina native is a volunteer teaching assistant at her dance studio and tutors children in low-income areas. She's a creative thinker and an honor student.

It would be hard to live in our San Gabriel Valley and not realize that it is just past the one year anniversary of the terrible Station and Morris fires. How frightening it was to look up and see that deep orange glow and black smoke in the mountains and the brooding and gloomy skies, even in the daytime.

About a year ago, I wrote about my struggles with running - having taken it up for the umpteenth time since reaching the age of love handles.

In a typical mid-term election year, the end of summer and Labor Day marks the beginning of the campaign season. But this is no typical year.

Eleanor Brown, a lifelong Montebello resident and professional artist, illustrator and teacher, died from heart complications on Aug. 7 surrounded by loved ones. She was 86.

GLENDORA - There was something strange about Charter Oak High School's No. 5 ranking in this week's CIF-Southern Section Inland Division poll.

Environmentalists went 1 for 4 in the waning hours of the state legislative session this week.

A state Senate bill requiring insurance companies to pay for treatments that help patients quit smoking is on the governor's desk.

GLENDORA - After losing two court cases, Glendora officials are hoping California's highest court has a different opinion on the the city's redevelopment agency, officials said Friday.

The county will prosecute bribery charges against a Baldwin Park code enforcement officer after prosecutors finish sorting out the scandal in Bell, the county prosecutor in charge of public corruption cases said Friday.

POMONA - Foothill Transit's new electric buses are charged and ready to deliver a jolt to public transportation.

The company unveiled its first three zero-emissions Ecoliner buses Friday at its Pomona operations facility, providing rides through the facility lot and a demonstration of the hands-free docking station that can recharge the buses in less than 10 minutes while passengers enter and exit.