South Gate (Los Angeles, California)

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KTLA) -- A young couple is dead after a wrong-way driver crashed head-on into their vehicle on the 91 freeway in Anaheim. The crash happened near the Tustin Avenue on-ramp shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday just east of Harbor Boulevard....

SOUTH GATE -- An elementary teacher who disappeared under mysterious circumstances has been found dead near Big Tujunga Canyon. The body of Rigoberto Ruelas, a 39-year-old elementary school teacher for Miramonte Elementary School, was found at 9 a.m....

SOUTH GATE, Calif. -- Police have arrested a high school student for shooting a teenager at nearby school. A police statement says the shooting occurred shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday at South Gate High School. The boy told officers that he was walking...

LOS ANGELES -- Peanut butter cookie dough distributed as part of a fundraising activity at Southern California schools may be tainted with salmonella and is being recalled, it was announced Tuesday. The dough was distributed by Ontario-based Sweet...

SOUTH GATE -- Animal control authorities have seized dogs, birds and reptiles from a South Gate pet shop after the animals were found living in filthy and potentially harmful conditions. The Southeast Area Animal Control Authority took the pets...

SOUTH GATE -- An 18-year-old driver has been arrested in connection with a van crash that killed a 14-year-old boy near South Gate Middle School. Eduardo Rojo of South Gate was arrested on a felony charge Tuesday after police determined that he may...

SOUTH GATE -- Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a 17-year-old boy at a party in South Gate. The boy was shot multiple times in the upper torso shortly after midnight Sunday outside a party in the...

SOUTH GATE -- A mother and her boyfriend have been charged with abandoning a minor after they left the woman's 2-year-old daughter at a carnival. Monday night, the woman was still being questioned as police tried to resolve what happened The girl was...

LYNWOOD -- Authorities have released the sketch of a suspected gunman wanted in the shooting and killing of a 66-year-old grandmother of eight during a robbery in Lynwood. It happened around 10 a.m. Wednesday at the check cashing business the victim...

CASTAIC -- An autopsy was pending Saturday on the body of a man killed when his vehicle -- a Los Angeles County van -- plunged some 100 feet down a canyon in Castaic. Police identified the man as Francisco Ramon Diaz, 63, of South Gate. Dias was driving...

LOS ANGELES -- A carjacking suspect is being held for possible involvement in a kidnapping and murder after a body was found following a pursuit that ended in South Los Angeles. Police responded to a reported kidnapping at 12:54 a.m. in the 10200 block...

Bernard B. Roth, founder of South Gate-based World Oil Corp. and an early promoter of self-service gas stations at a time when pumping your own gas was considered novel and possibly dangerous, has died. He was 95. He died Sunday night at his Beverly...