Chino Hills Ca

When John Ameluxen received a last-minute invitation for his team to fill out the field for a new, star-studded softball tournament, the Chino Hills Ayala coach asked for one hour to get out of a previous commitment. It was an hour well spent. Ayala showed up last weekend for the inaugural Nike Faster to First tournament in Huntington Beach and created more buzz than a million bees. Behind the pitching of sophomore Jessica Hall and the hitting of junior shortstop Nani St. Germain, the Bulldogs defeated teams ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 21 in the nation over the first two days and were six outs from beating the fourth-ranked team on Day 3. Now, the little team that could is at a crossroads.

In Chino Hills, preschool director Susan Harris was tending to a student who had stepped on a bee when the ground began to tremble. As they huddled together under a counter, the little girl could only stare into her eyes. "It's OK," Harris told her, though that was not clear at all. "It's OK." Across town, Kimberly Kessel was putting away a vacuum cleaner when her house started shaking. She bolted into the backyard without her shoes, her blue-eyed, 18-month-old son cradled in her arms.

Diamond Bar Mayor Steve Tye never noticed anything unusual about the upscale, three-bedroom suburban home a block from his house. That is until Wednesday, when Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies burst in and found the entire house had been converted into a massive indoor marijuana farm, complete with elaborate irrigation system and overhead lights on timers that were hooked up illegally to bypass meter readings.

An hour before Sunday services at a Lutheran church in Chino Hills, the Rev. Andy Wu joined his congregants in front of plates piled high with boiled Napa cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, stir fried tofu and rice. Since Wu became an associate pastor in 2002, attendance at lunch and his worship services in Mandarin Chinese have doubled. So has Chino Hills' Asian population, which now makes up about 40% of city residents.

An Orange County sheriff's reserve deputy was arrested after a weekend golf outing in Chino Hills when he allegedly flashed his badge and pulled a gun on a group of golfers. The reserve deputy, Sheriff Michael S. Carona's personal martial arts instructor, allegedly made a death threat during a confrontation that began on the 13th hole of the North Course at Los Serranos Golf & Country Club. The arrest is the latest embarrassment for the reserve program.

Chino Hills, long a bucolic vestige of California's ranching and homesteading history, has grown in the last two decades into a prosperous bedroom community on the western edge of San Bernardino County. The city of 73,000 draws commuters from Los Angeles and Orange counties seeking more affordable family living.

At the request of attorneys for death row inmate Kevin Cooper, a U.S. District Court judge on Friday ordered DNA tests on hairs found inside a Chino Hills home where four people were savagely murdered in 1983. In her order, Judge Marilyn Huff said an independent lab in Pennsylvania will begin mitochondrial DNA tests next week on three hairs found on the victims.

Two friends who shared dinner at a Chino Hills restaurant on the 1983 evening when four people were murdered in a nearby home provided conflicting accounts Monday about the condition of some men in the restaurant on the night of the killings. Christine Slonaker, a Nevada City woman who came forward in the days before convicted killer Kevin Cooper's scheduled execution in February to say she had seen men enter the restaurant "covered in blood," testified Monday in U.S.

Death row inmate Kevin Cooper's fight to avoid execution for killing four people in Chino Hills in 1983 was dealt a major setback when new DNA tests determined that hairs found on the victims probably belonged to them, and not to another suspect. The DNA tests, which were conducted by Dr. Terry Melton, a Pennsylvania-based expert recommended by Cooper's defense attorneys, are expected to be presented at an appeals hearing today in U.S. District Court in San Diego.

It was proposed as the largest Hindu temple and cultural center in Southern California, an ornate structure with the kind of religious status held by the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.