ose Tulio Deras, 21, has been sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for the 2011 beating death of his infant daughter and the rape of his wife, according to City News Service. Deras delivered the fatal beating to 9-month-old Valerie on January 15, 2011, because the baby girl would not stop crying. more ›

Abraham Lopez, the 18-year-old man who fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend at South East High School in South Gate on Friday, faces arraignment today. Cindy Santana, 17, died on Friday night during surgery at St. Francis Medical Center. more ›

Crisis counselors will be available to students and staffers today at South East High School in South Gate in response to Friday's fatal stabbing. Cindy Santana, 17, was stabbed by her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend Abraham Lopez around 11am on Friday. more ›

A girl who was stabbed at South East High School in South Gate during her lunch break yesterday died from her wounds in the hospital last night. Cindy Santana, 17, was fatally stabbed by her ex-boyfriend Abraham Lopez, 18, according to ABC 7. more ›

A student at South East High School in South Gate is in critical condition after a boy stabbed her during lunch break today. Four people who stepped in to rescue the girl, including a school dean, were also injured. The stabbing attack happened today after 11 a.m. and the school was temporarily locked down until 1 p.m., according to KCAL. more ›

A man driving a U-Haul pick-up truck was shot in the head and killed shortly after midnight in South Gate Tuesday night. The victim, Randy Telles, 23, of Bell Gardens was identified today and police are releasing a description of the alleged shooters. After Telles was shot, his truck rammed into a car, took out a gate and crashed through a carport. more ›

The body of 50-year-old Francisco Rivera was found stabbed to death on a "popular and well travelled" bicycle trail along the LA River in South Gate, and investigators are asking the public for help in locating the suspect, according to a LASD news release. more ›

If you've seen the tags “FIGO” and “FIGOE” scrawled across walls along the 10 and 101 freeways near downtown Los Angeles, he may be off the streets now. LAPD detectives today searched 20-year-old Eduardo Ramirez' Maywood home finding evidence suggesting that he's the tagger they've been looking for in a two-month investigation. “We have two officers assigned full time to investigate these vandals,” said Lt. Paul Vernon in a news release. Ramirez, who was also booked on various narcotics possession charges, is employed as a teacher’s aide at an elementary school in South Gate. more ›

Instead of throwing all the unused food away, Doomie of Chinatown's about-to-be-closed vegan restaurant eponymously named after him will have a $10 all you can eat grub fest this weekend. But there's one catch, it's not going to be in Chinatown, it will be in... South Gate. The money raised will go towards them opening a new restaurant sometime in the near future, but many are hoping it's going to be much closer than... South Gate. More about the restaurant can be read here. more ›

For the Los Angeles region this weekend, it was a deadly one. At least ten people died by CBS2's count, four of them within Los Angeles: more ›

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Silly Jack Weiss! He thinks the Valley is different from the City. Tsk tsk! The Daily News takes the Councilman to task (lovingly) for his slip of the tongue. Halloween events abound in the city this time of year, and LAist is your best source for the hottest spooky spots: check out our continuing Halloween coverage here. OMGZZZ Kitten Cops! I can has ratburgerz?? The LAPD is recruiting feral cats to root out rodents... more ›

Sounds like a good time to play you Cypress Hill's "How I Could Just Kill A Man" in Spanish, aka "No Entienedes La Onda". more ›

Some Angelenos assert that the 88 disparate municipalities that make up Los Angeles County serve to further fragment the region. This might be the case, but this huge number of independent cities also creates friendly small towns within the metropolis, and sometimes provides us with idiosyncratic drama. Not to mention gambling venues, the presence of which has stirred up trouble in the sleepy City of Commerce. more ›