Long Beach, CA – January 2, 2025 – LBS Financial Credit Union employees donated hundreds of toys, books, clothing, and gift cards on December 10th to the Long Beach Fire Department's “Spark of Love” Toy Drive. This donation is part of the Credit Union’s cherished tradition during its annual holiday breakfast. The Long Beach “Spark of Love” Toy Drive began around 1955 when Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) Firefighter Murray Cohn started collecting toys for kids in need.

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December 31, 2025 A 37-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Cerritos was identified Wednesday. He was identified Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Office of Medical Examiner as Mark Brown. The fatal assault occurred at about 8 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of South Street and Studebaker Road, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Brown was stabbed in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.

December 31, 2025 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X The final December high school basketball tournaments ended this past Tuesday and as the calendar flips over to 2026, that could mean only one thing-league action gets underway. While there may be a few non-league games sprinkled in here and there, January figures to be an exciting month to kick off the new year as the area teams have until Feb.

December 31, 2025 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X ORANGE-The hottest girls basketball team in the area remained on fire in the early games of the 60th Annual Orange Holiday Classic and in one of the rare occasions this season, Valley Christian High was pushed to the limit. The Defenders had lost a pair of games by five and six points, respectively, but found a way to hold off Laguna Hills High 53-50 last Saturday in a pool play game.

December 31, 2025 alleyBy Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X CYPRESS-The Valley Christian High boys basketball team was making its debut at the Oxford Academy Douglas Uselton Memorial D5 Challenge Tournament and made the most of its first time here. After a sluggish first half that saw the Defenders shoot 29 percent from the field and lead Norwalk High by a point at the half, they went to town from beyond the arc in the second half.

December 31, 2025 By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X LA VERNE-Just three days after winning the Nike Division of the Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas, the La Mirada High boys basketball team was hoping to keep the momentum going in a stacked Platinum Division of the 9th Annual The Classic at Damien tournament, one of the best in the nation.

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 29, 2025 Over the past two weeks, Los Cerritos Community News has published three installments of High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags, an investigative series examining governance, transparency, and legal compliance issues involving Central Basin Director Juan Garza, the California Cities for Self-Reliance Joint Powers Authority, and the Central Basin Municipal Water District.

By Cerritos Mayor Frank Aurelio Yokoyama The strength of our community is defined by our people. When the City of Cerritos partners with our residents and businesses to listen, learn, and share knowledge, we all benefit. Which is why I’m extremely proud that our City has launched a new civic leadership academy, L.E.A.D. Cerritos. L.E.A.D. stands for Learn, Educate, Act, and Discover.

By Loren Kopff December 24, 2025 GARDEN GROVE-Just when the Whitney High boys basketball team was starting to turn the page and forget about its 1-6 and 2-8 start to the season and get to half a dozen wins, the Wildcats took a step back when they faced Garden Grove High last Saturday. Whitney led 8-4 before three minutes had elapsed, but the Argonauts went on a 19-5 run the remainder of the first quarter and cruised to a 76-39 victory.

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 23, 2025 The City of Pico Rivera has formally completed the dissolution of its former Redevelopment Agency Successor Agency, a years-long process that city officials say will permanently relieve pressure on the city’s General Fund and improve long-term financial stability. The final action was approved by the Los Angeles County Oversight Board on December 18, closing out a statutory process that began after the state dissolved local redevelopment agencies more than a decade ago.

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 23, 2025 A federal grand jury has indicted four people in connection with what prosecutors describe as a suspected terrorist plot to carry out coordinated bombings in Los Angeles and Orange counties on New Year’s Eve, according to announcements this week by the U.S. Department of Justice and reporting by KABC-TV. The defendants — Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante James Anthony-Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41 — are all from the Los Angeles area, federal prosecutors said.

By Loren Kopff Publisher | Follow X December 23, 2025 Emily Gonzalez (fourth from the left), Destiny Elmore, Jael Arreguin and Nayeli Tamayo, plus junior Jordin Shaw (#2) are flanked by this season's La Mirada High girls basketball team as they were recognized at halftime of last Friday's game against John Glenn High for winning the Mid-Cities League last season. La Mirada defeated Glenn 54-11 for its second win of the season.

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 23, 2025 Each season, there seems to be a different storyline when Cerritos High and Gahr High face each other in their annual December city tussle. The 2025 edition of this longstanding rivalry centered around the absence of key returning players for both teams and the lack of healthy players that Cerritos head coach Jonathan Watanabe had on his bench.

Leaving LA doesn’t usually happen with some big, dramatic announcement. It creeps up on you. First it’s just little annoyances that pile up. Then you’re bone-tired all the time. And eventually, you’re sitting at the kitchen table having a very real conversation about moving. People still genuinely love a lot about the city—the perfect weather, the incredible food, that buzz in the air where anything feels possible.

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 19, 2025 Two weeks ago, Los Cerritos Community News launched High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags, a multi-part investigative series revealing that for more than four years Central Basin Director Juan Garza quietly operated the California Cities for Self-Reliance Joint Powers Authority (JPA), a taxpayer-funded agency, through Bellflower-based Six Heron, his privately owned public-relations and government-relations firm.

December 19, 2025 By Brian Hews Last week, Los Cerritos Community News reported extensively on the growing water and sewer infrastructure crisis facing Cerritos, detailing decades of deferred maintenance and the looming financial consequences now confronting the city. Since that report, LCCN has learned exclusively that one of the city’s groundwater sources, Well C-4, has suffered a catastrophic failure. ____________…

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HOLIDAY CELEBRATION: Kenneth Hahn introducing a choir at the event in 1964. The Holiday Celebration has been a free event since its start 66 years ago. December 19, 2025 By Brian Hews For 66 years, the Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration has marked Christmas Eve not just as a seasonal event, but as a civic tradition rooted in inclusion, community, and public service.

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The former British paratrooper began his journey, called ‘Operation Goliath,’ in 1998 from Punta Arenas, Chile. He hopes to become the first person to walk around the world in a continuous line of steps, without using any transport along the route. Here are the key events on his journey. Who is Karl Bushby Karl Bushby is a former British soldier, traveller and writer.