If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. Scandal-plagued Bell will finally have a City Council on Thursday when five newly elected ...

An emergency closed-door meeting of Bell’s city council last night ended with three of the city’s top officials stepping down. With angry residents holding vigil outside, The City Manager, Assistant ...

The Bell city officials who were paid outrageous salaries are eligible for outrageous pensions, too, paid in large part by other cities where they worked before. Vernon's former city manager, Bruce ...

Bell's former assistant chief administrator was convicted on Monday of misappropriating public funds. Jurors deliberated since Nov. 22 in the downtown Los Angeles trial of Angela Spaccia, who was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A protester, in white T-shirt, is restrained on Atlantic Avenue in the city of Bell on Friday. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) ...

BELL, Calif. (KABC) -- Interfaith leaders from across Southern California are rallying behind a Lutheran church in the city of Bell that's offering housing to asylum seekers. From the outside, it may ...

Hundreds of people who live in two Bell mobile home parks may soon be displaced as the city works on plans to close the parks and sell them to be redeveloped into housing, retail and entertainment ...

Chapman University's announcement that it will be presenting a day-long conference in February examining the City of Bell scandal is not the exciting part, although I'm sure a good time will be had by ...

CITY HALL — Taking a vacation typically means relaxing on a beach in a tropical locale or hitting the slopes at a ski resort, but for Santa Monica Deputy Police Chief Al Venegas it meant traveling to ...