Whittier Daily News

The California Highway Patrol is conducting a sobriety checkpoint in an undisclosed location in Santa Fe Springs beginning at 8 p.m. today. Full Story »

Deputies are looking for the two men who attacked and robbed a Downey man shortly after he cashed a $887 check Wednesday night. Full Story »

LA MIRADA - You might call it a sign of the times - the struggling economy, that is - but La Mirada has found a way to continue its Christmas programs and save money. Full Story »

NORWALK - Deputies dealt with an unusual traffic problem Thursday morning in the form of a stout 3-foot-tall Shetland pony. The sheriff's Norwalk Station got a call at 6:54 a.m. about a tan pony running around Studebaker Road between Excelsior Drive and Alondra Boulevard. Full Story »

SANTA FE SPRINGS - Get into the holiday season by enjoying the timeless story of Charlie Brown, as he - frustrated with commercialism - goes seeking the true meaning of Christmas.| With Gallery Full Story »

In a few weeks it will be Christmas, a season of giving and receiving, of loving and living, of good food and great memories. Full Story »

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. At least as far as volunteer workers in the Los Angeles district of the U.S. Postal Service are concerned. Full Story »

A Fullerton man will spend three years in prison for taking a teen's prescription glasses at gunpoint during a La Habra Heights robbery, authorities said Thursday. Full Story »

Rep. Grace Napolitano said Wednesday she wants to hold an unprecedented congressional hearing on the state's water crisis next month in Los Angeles. Full Story »

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE - The last words Bob Spencer wanted to hear Wednesday were "rain likely." The county Public Works Department spokesman had just hung up with National Weather Service forecasters in Oxnard. Full Story »

WHITTIER - A 29-year-old Whittier man and his girlfriend argued and fought the day he was fatally stabbed, detectives said. Full Story »

WHITTIER - The last of the trick-or-treaters had barely left his yard when Manuel Rios began transforming his front yard into a virtual Christmas card. Full Story »

The Whittier Chapter of the American Audubon Society invites veteran and beginning bird watchers to join one of the three following guided walks Full Story »

Recently I've embarked on a couple of home improvement projects. Full Story »

WHITTIER - Christmas has come early for the 3,000-student Lowell Joint School District, which has received an extra $17,000 in grants from its foundation to pay for after-school sports, computers and reading materials at individual sites. Full Story »

Nationwide, more Republican members of Congress have been in favor of sending more troops to Afghanistan than Democrats. Full Story »

WEST COVINA - Domino's Pizza aimed to boost the spirits of the unemployed one slice at a time Tuesday. Full Story »

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #3752 invites the community to join them for a fish fry dinner from 5:30 to 8p.m. on Friday Full Story »

A former Marine was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years and eight months in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl. Full Story »

WEST POINT, N.Y. - Declaring "our security is at stake," President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Afghanistan on Tuesday night, nearly tripling the force Full Story »

COMMERCE - A regional water board voted 4-1 Tuesday to delay for 3 1/2 years imposition of a rate increase that Full Story »

A new federal campaign that aims to move American students from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement will get a boost at local schools Full Story »

LA PUENTE - After five years of putting the county in charge, city officials have decided La Puente should conduct its own elections. Full Story »

ROSEMEAD - Former City Councilman John Nunez has collected more than $11,000 in unemployment payments since voters ousted him from the council in March. Nunez is collecting $450 a week - the maximum amount allowed - according to City Manager Jeff Allred. Full Story »

NORWALK - The white mailboxes in front of the Sheriff's Norwalk Station are not for depositing letters or packages. Instead, the three containers are for residents who want to dispose of expired or unused prescriptions ... Full Story »