At about 1:25 this morning, a man riding a bike through Pico Rivera was shot and killed. L.A. Now reports that the victim hasn't been identified, and that the suspect is still at large. There's no description of the shooter, and police don't have a motive. more ›

The public isn't any closer to learning details about the death of the man whose dismembered body was found stuffed in a garbage bag and left in a Pico Rivera back yard this week. Investigators with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department have issued a "security hold" on information regarding the case, which blocks the coroner's office from sharing what they've learned about the body parts. more ›

Authorities in Pico Rivera are investigating the death of a young male, thought to be in his late teens or early 20s, whose body parts were found stuffed in a garbage bag and stashed in the back yard of a home. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau detectives were sent to the 8500 block of Pico Vista Road at around 8:30 Wednesday night, according to the LASD. more ›

Unfortunately today brings more horrible news involving soccer and molestation. A 6-year-old boy at a Pico Rivera park for a soccer match was sexually molested in a public bathroom on Saturday, say officials, according to LA Now. more ›

A flock of herons has Pico Rivera residents squawking about a 50-foot ficus tree on the 9500 block of Bert Street that's been a migratory stop for the marine birds for over a decade. Residents living below say "they are are fed up with the marine birds they find on the street every day and the endless sound of avian droppings," according to the Whittier Daily News. Residents want city officials to relocate the birds, or remove the tree. more ›

An interesting tattoo can definitely be a conversation starter, but for one gang member, it proved to be the key to determining he was the perp in a cold case murder. The tattoo, seen in 2008 by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Detective Sergeant Kevin Lloyd in a photograph of gang member Anthony Garcia, depicted a shooting outside a liquor store. more ›

Borders bookstores are closing up all over, including several in the SoCal region, with more shut-downs just announced. In Pico Rivera, the Borders at the city's Towne Center is one of the first-round stores to get the ol' bankruptcy boot, but, as the Whittier Daily News reports, the bill for bringing books for sale to the community is still unpaid. more ›

The Fresh Squeezed Music Festival 2010 was meant to be a "gathering of epic proportions never before seen in Southern California," according to their site, but it seems that the show won't go on tonight after all. more ›

Someone got really, really, really lucky last night. The Mega Millions lotto prize of $266 million was bought by someone at a Pico Rivera store, according to KNX1070. There's been no official word on who won, but according to a source who asked for anonymity, it was a NBC4 employee. more ›

Did this one wake you out of bed? If Twitter is any indicator, yes, it woke up hundreds of thousands of Angelenos this morning. A 4.4 earthquake struck Pico Rivera, about 11 miles from downtown L.A., at 4:04 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program. This size quake is categorized as "light." There have been no immediate reports of injuries or damage. more ›

When the Gold Line Eastside extension opens this summer whisking commuters from downtown to East LA, that won't be the end of the line if Metro gets their way. Metro staff has four light rail routes they are studying and proposing that would go from unincorporated East LA to the possibility of other cities such as Monterey Park, Whittier, Montebello, El Monte and others. more ›

No bookish events on Mr. King's Day. more ›

Police responded to a domestic abuse call at 2 a.m. this morning in the 4700 block of Myrtle Street and found one woman dead and one seriously injured with stab wounds in her upper torso. more ›

Randall Robinson presents An Unbroken Agony 7pm @ EsoWon Books more ›

Monday Will Beall presents L.A. Rex 7pm @ Book Soup Robert Alter & Jonathan Kirsch discuss The Book of Psalms with David Ulin 7pm @ Central Library Mark Schapiro signs Exposed 7pm @ Dutton's Richard King presents Spirituality in the Workplace 7pm @ Vroman's Alan Alda presents Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Tuesday Bill Clinton presents Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World 2pm @ Vroman's... more ›

On Friday night, police said, Hicks, 57, was driving home from visiting her sister in Whittier when she noticed a teenager spraying graffiti on a cinder-block wall two blocks from her house near San Gabriel River Parkway and Woodford Street. more ›

If you haven't managed to rest-up after your July 4th blow-out, you get one more day. But that's it! more ›

Happy Summer Solstice! Summer is finally here. It's time to chill out, take a vacation, sit on the beach and get lost in a good book. Angelenos are lucky to have so many literary choices and librarians like Eileen Ybarra, a young adult librarian at the Los Angeles Central Library, to guide our tastes. As Eileen notes below, the library is still one of the best places to access information, preserve free speech and celebrate the life of the mind. more ›