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In the email sent Friday, Michael Yamane, whose daughter is a senior cross country athlete at Arcadia High School, urged the district to reconsider its firing of coach James O'Brien, who led the Apaches to state and national cross country titles in 2012.

WEST COVINA - Four members of the West Covina City Council threw their support behind an ordinance requiring a vote of the people to sell, lease or rent land in the city's contested civic center.

Ben Rodriguez of La Puente has been thinking a lot about his younger brother lately. Thursday marks the 35th anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Timothy Rodriguez of La Puente, who died along with another trainee during the second day of an 80-hour training session at a Los Angeles County Fire Department firefighter training program on Aug. 8, 2013.

AZUSA - Everything went right for the Lohr family on July 24 -- but they never would have believed it at the time.

A Jackie Robinson statue on Coney Island has been vandalized with swastikas and hate speech, and New York police are seeking the people responsible.

PASADENA -- Prosecutors Wednesday filed charges against three men in connection with the fatal beating of a 25-year-old Marine in Old Pasadena, officials said.

MONTEREY PARK -- Authorities Wednesday released the names of an elderly Monterey Park couple who died Tuesday following a solo-car crash.

MONROVIA - A car crash destroyed Monrovia's historic wishing well monument at Myrtle and Lime avenues late Tuesday, officials said.

Federal and local law enforcements agents arrested eight people early Tuesday as part of a three-year investigation into the Mexican Mafia, La Familia drug cartel and the notorious street gang, Florencia 13.

A doll stuffed with 37 grams of crack cocaine leads to the arrest of two carnival workers. That and other bizarre crimes in today's roundup.