Boyle Heights

Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon called Wednesday for the city to rename a Boyle Heights street, east of Mariachi Plaza, after beloved Mexican singer Vicente “Chente” Fernandez, who died at the age of 81 on Dec. 12.

A man wearing only boxer shorts who scaled a four-story church in Boyle Heights Wednesday night and appeared to set a cross on fire was taken into custody.

The coronavirus has claimed the lives of at least 20 mariachis in Los Angeles but the need to go out to work is greater, so many of them continue to risk their lives.

A Boyle Heights family got some help from LAPD after thieves stole all of their new clothes, purchased with family savings and gift cards they’d saved from the children’s birthdays.

Adventist Health White Memorial hospital, a facility that’s been over-stretched by the COVID-19 virus and deluged with patients is getting some help now from the California National Guard, the state and the Army Corps of Engineers.

More than 320,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and that number is rising by more than a thousand each day. Some local artists have come up with a unique way to honor those who’ve lost their lives with a memorial wall of roses. The red rose, an eternal symbol of love, is being used to memorialize those who lost their…

A Los Angeles police officer who was seen on cellphone video repeatedly striking a trespassing suspect in late April in Boyle Heights was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on a felony charge of assault under color of authority. Following a preliminary hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alison Estrada ruled there was sufficient evidence for the case against Frank Hernandez…

Aarón Moreno is an eight-year-old boy who a few months ago started his own business selling plants in Boyle Heights to help his mother pay bills, and to be able to bring his sister back from Mexico.

A Texas man who allegedly killed a 17-year-old Boyle Heights girl in 1996 was in custody Wednesday after DNA evidence connected him to the crime, authorities said.

An 8-year-old boy from Boyle Heights decided to start a business selling plants to help his mother out financially, and also to raise funds to bring his sister back from Mexico. Aaron is quite the little entrepreneur. He started his business selling plants with two main goals: to support his family so that they could move out of the small…

Since the safer at home orders went into effect, making parties and large gatherings impossible, a mariachi group in LA has lost its only source of revenue.  Wearing face coverings, the musicians gather on the corner of 1st Street and Boyle Avenue as mariachis have since the 1930s.  “This is where we come to get work. If you don’t...

A man’s homecoming princess ended up saving his life when he was diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019.

A dangerous high-speed police pursuit that started in Azusa ended in Walnut after traveling to East Los Angeles, then to Pomona and eventually concluding in the San Gabriel Valley Saturday.

A 53-year-old father of five spent four days in the hospital after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bicycle in Boyle Heights, and police are now searching for the driver of the pickup truck.

A big rig carrying beer crashed off a freeway overpass Thursday morning east of Los Angeles.

A man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in a Boyle Heights park bathroom was in custody Tuesday and investigators were seeking a second suspect.

A 25-year-old man arrested in connection with a series of arson fires and vandalism targeting Southland houses of worship, most recently in Boyle Heights, was charged Monday with 22 criminal counts.

An urgent search for a baby and his father in an Amber Alert abduction continued Wednesday as authorities ask for the public to help track down the pair.

A proposal for additional reward money was announced Wednesday in the animal abuse case of a dog that died after it was slammed to the pavement by a man in Boyle Heights.

A 70-year-old nun who was struck by a hit-and-run driver a week ago died Sunday as police continued the search for the driver who took off, the Los Angeles Police Department said.