Hermosa Beach Fire Department arson investigator Darryl Powers has been charged with one misdemeanor count for allegedly “brandishing a firearm at a woman sitting next to him” while he was off duty in a Sunset Beach bar, prosecutors in Orange County announced.
Powers, 49, was More

Hermosan Holly Miagawa returns from the National Kidney Foundation’s U.S. Transplant Games in Madison, WI, with four gold medals in racquetball, the 100 meter sprint, long jump, and volleyball, one silver medal in the 200 meters, “and a pair of crutches” from a ruptured More

Mining for gold
Hermosan Holly Miagawa returns from the National Kidney Foundation’s U.S. Transplant Games in Madison, WI, with four gold medals in racquetball, the 100 meter sprint, long jump, and volleyball, one silver medal in the 200 meters, “and a pair of crutches” from a ruptured Achilles tendon received in her silver event.

Hermosa police have released a sketch of a suspect in the midday armed robbery of Avanti Jewelry on Pacific Coast Highway on Aug. 3, in which a gunman tied up an employee and stole wedding bands, gold chains and as much as $500 in More

The Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau has entered into discussions to oversee the popular St. Patrick’s Day Parade, after the City Council determined it could no longer fund the event.
The Council in June unanimously axed funding for special events including More

by Robb Fulcher

A ceremony 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11 will formally unveil a 9-11 memorial bench on the greenbelt just south of Pier Avenue.
The bench will be decorated with 2,998 buttons representing each victim of the 9-11 terror attacks, along with flight More

by Janet Oshiro
Making a difference is as simple as walking, as Carol Kozlovich knows. The former market researcher, now a dog walker and animal massage therapist, has added another leg to her journey: striding 1,000 miles for women suffering horrific abuses in the More

Arrest made
Police arrested a 30-year-old Encino man after he allegedly threatened to use emailed photos and information against a female victim if she refused to have sex with him. Hermosa Beach Police detectives covertly arranged to meet with the man through a social More

Brennan Danlasky, 14, of Hermosa Beach has just returned from a week at Boy Scout Camp Emerald Bay on Catalina Island, earned through his designation as the Ian White Memorial Campership award winner. 
The award is sponsored by Lazarex Cancer Foundation of Danville, and More

by Robb Fulcher
A judge has declined to issue a restraining order to stop the City Council from instituting a “two-tier” pension system that would require future employees to shoulder more of the payments into their pension fund. The city police and firefighter associations More