Huntington Park Ca

A young woman died early Monday after she and three men were shot over the weekend, police said. The shooting occurred about 10:30 p.m. Sunday in the 6000 block of Middleton Street, said Police Lt. Paul Wadley. Police have not ruled out the possibility that the shooting was gang-related. The woman died early Monday from a gunshot wound to her abdomen. One of the male victims was shot in the leg and another in the stomach and leg.

A Vernon police officer chasing a speeding motorcyclist Sunday collided with another vehicle in Huntington Park, injuring himself and three other people, police said. The officer was pursuing the motorcyclist south on Templeton Street when his patrol car collided with a Ford Explorer at Saturn Avenue about 2:20 p.m., said Lt. Lee Alirez of the Huntington Park Police Department.

Under orders from the Mexican Mafia, Florencia 13 gang members allegedly patrolled their neighborhood to "cleanse" it by assaulting and killing members of rival black gangs. At the same time, the Latino gang also allegedly sold large quantities of drugs, and in some cases, guns, to blacks, including Crips gang members. This complex and contradictory picture of underworld life in which race, drugs and gangs collide emerges from four federal indictments announced last month against Florencia 13.

Dante D'Eramo recalls sitting on the curb along Pacific Boulevard, awestruck as Huntington Park's Fabulous Christmas Lane Parade rolled past. He was 9 years old. "I remember thinking, 'One day I'd like to organize that parade.' Something about the way it looked, the happiness it created. I saw neighbors and friends clapping, rejoicing, and I thought, 'That's something I want to be a part of.'

Nurses at two Huntington Park hospitals owned by the same physicians group have threatened to strike because they say their paychecks have bounced, in some cases twice, the California Nurses Assn. said. About 80 nurses at Community and Mission hospitals in Huntington Park could participate in the strike, set for March 11, if their concerns about the owners' ability to meet payroll are unresolved, said Charles Idelson, communications director for the union, on Tuesday.

A van driver who said he lost consciousness caused a multiple-vehicle crash that ended when a school bus swerved onto a sidewalk near Huntington Park High School, killing a ninth-grader, authorities said Friday. The student, Lauro Camberos, 15, of Huntington Park was pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital in Lynwood, officials said. Six other students, a bus driver and three other people were taken to hospitals, according to the California Highway Patrol.

For 19 years, the brutal murders went unsolved. And for most of that time, they were nothing more than a file folder in a drawer, an almost forgotten case growing colder by the year. On April 19, 1987 -- Easter Sunday -- the bodies of George and Edna Darrow were discovered in their Huntington Park home. The elderly couple -- he was 78, she was 73 -- had been stabbed to death several days earlier.

The massive pile of concrete rubble, commonly known by Huntington Park residents as La Montana, or the mountain, will finally be leveled. And this time it's for real. The state Integrated Waste Management Board voted unanimously Tuesday to clean up the 5.4-acre-wide, five-story-tall heap. The concrete slabs are the remains of crumbled sections of the Santa Monica Freeway that were damaged during the Northridge earthquake.

One of the largest rewards in Los Angeles history -- $100,000 -- was offered Friday for information in the 11-year-old murder of a Huntington Park mother and daughter. Los Angeles City Councilman Ed Reyes announced that the city would offer $75,000, with an additional $25,000 from county Supervisor Gloria Molina's office, for information about the 1993 murder of Veronica Ultreras, a 22-year-old kindergarten teacher's aide, and her 3-year-old daughter, Cynthia.

When Huntington Park Councilman Ed Escareno spent double his city-allotted travel budget for two years in a row, watchourcity.com asked him to pay it back. When the City Council voted itself a $350-a-month raise, and hired its city attorney in closed session and without requesting competing bids from other attorneys, the website listed which council members had gone along with it all.