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The fire buing in the Cherry Valley area was slightly bigger and further contained Wednesday moing, but firefighters remain conceed that winds and dry fuel could cause the blaze to explode. • PHOTOS: The Bogart fire bus brush in Cherry Valley “With any hot spots, that wind change is always a conce,” said Cal Fire Capt. Liz Brown adding that 20-mph wind gusts are expected throughout the day. Most of the vegetation buing is a combination of chaparral and short grasses, and it’s those tinder-dry grasses that are worrisome for fire officials. The Bogart fire, named for the park it started in, covered 1,250 acres and was about 20 percent contained by sunrise, officials said. Evacuations southeas...

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after the former congressman was accused in yet another sexting scandal. • PHOTOS: Huma Abedin leaving Anthony Weiner following latest sexting revelations “After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,” she said in a statement issued by Clinton’s presidential campaign. “Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy.” The New York Post published photos late Sunday that it said Weiner had sent last year t...

Hamstrung by strict limits on political contributions, Califoia lawmakers have found a way to continue to extract large sums from some of Sacramento’s most powerful special interests. Increasingly, they’re using “ballot measure committees,” little-known and barely regulated accounts that are supposed to promote or oppose state and local initiatives but in practice are paying for consultants and polling firms, new suits and trips to Mexico. And the money for the politicians’ perks comes in the form of five-figure donations from the same special interests that state rules were intended to curtail. An analysis by Digital First Media, which includes this news organization, shows that the number...

Detectives have waed the public of a sudden increase in tire and wheel thefts from late model Chevrolet trucks in the Harbor Area, releasing a photograph of a man in a ski mask captured as he loaded stolen wheels into a van. Residents have reported 12 crimes in the last month in Wilmington, San Pedro, Harbor City, and Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles police Detective Carmine Sasso said. “They kind of made their rounds,” Sasso said. “It’s just crazy.” Thieves primarily targeted Chevrolet trucks parked on the street. Using cinder blocks, bricks or wood blocks to prop up the vehicle, they take all four wheels and tires. “A good crew can prop them up on cinder blocks and remove all four tires and wh...

The “Great Food Truck Race” on Food Network has always been smitten with Southe Califoia competitors. This season is no different. The show, which debuts Sunday night, features the owners of Bigmista’s Barbecue & Sammich Shop and Bigmista’s Moing Wood, both in Long Beach. The barbecue restaurants are run by husband-and-wife team Neil and Phyllis Strawder, best known for their signature wood-smoked brisket. In the opening episode, the contestants are involved in a fuel-cake eating contest at a Los Angeles theme park. “I leaed a really big lesson, and that was – I never want a food truck. It is really hard work,” Neil Strawder said during a phone interview Tuesday. Strawder, a familiar fa...

LOS ANGELES >> Days after the body of a woman was found in the Los Angeles area, a couple suspected of killing her and kidnapping her three children have been arrested in Colorado. Joshua Aaron Robertson, 27, and Brittany Humphrey, 22, were arrested Thursday without incident in Pueblo, about 40 miles south of Colorado Springs, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The couple was wanted in coection with the death of Humphrey’s half-sister, Kimberly Harvill, whose body was found with multiple gunshot wounds along a road in a remote area of Los Angeles County on Aug. 14. Investigators said the couple kidnapped Harvill’s three young children, who were found safe Wednes...

GORMAN — A search continued outside Califoia today for a couple wanted in coection with the shooting death of a Fresno mother as Los Angeles Sheriff’s detectives work to determine the motive for her slaying and the subsequent kidnapping of her children. The three children of 26-year-old Kimberly Harvill, whose body was found two weeks ago in unincorporated Lebec in Ke County, were found safe Wednesday in a motel outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the care of a good Samaritan who notified local law enforcement, said Deputy Kimberly Alexander of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s Information Bureau. Their alleged kidnappers, Harvill’s 22-year-old sister, Brittany Humphrey, and her friend, 27-y...

Los Angeles, San Feando Valley, Santa Monica area American Cinematheque at the Aero: Jerry Lewis Movies: “The Nutty Professor” (1963) and “The Ladies Man” (1961), 7:30 p.m. Aug. 26; “The King of Comedy” (1982) and “Fuy Bones” (1995), 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27; “Artists and Models” (1955) and “Hollywood or Bust” (1956), 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28. “My Inteship in Canada” (2015), 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29. Most tickets $11; $9 seniors and students. 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. 323-466-3456. www.americancinematheque.com Beverly Cinema: “The Knack...and How to Get It” (1965), 7:30, with “Petulia” (1968), 9:25 p.m. Aug. 26-27. “Kill Bill: Vol. 2” (2004), 11:59 p.m. Aug. 26. Kiddie Matinee: “Safety Last!” (1923), 2 p...

We’ve all gotten them. Like an unwanted plague, those aoying robocalls always seem to come just as we’re sitting down to dier or getting ready to watch a football game. The messages are varied but most have one thing in common: They’re trying to sell us something. Some robocalls are looking to steal our personal information Some implore us to buy solar panels or donate money to a political candidate, while others ask us to support a local charity or take a ride-share survey. And it gets worse. Some of these automated calls offer fraudulent credit card services or questionable auto warranty protection. In many cases, they’re simply trying to steal our personal information. They’re increasing...

Julie Jeffs had taken a 6 a.m. flight from Michigan last week and arrived late in the moing to LAX, where she expected to spend a long day hunkering down at the Tom Bradley Inteational Terminal before hopping on an 11:30 p.m. red eye to Fiji. But the airline ticket counter wouldn’t be open until 7 p.m., so Jeffs was unable to get a boarding pass and clear security, denying her access to the extensive variety of gourmet restaurants near the gates at the newly revamped terminal at Los Angeles Inteational Airport. So she began looking for a sit-down restaurant, lugging around a 50-pound suitcase so she could have a decent meal and a cold glass of beer. It was a long search. There are just two ...

GORMAN >> Authorities are seeking a man and woman suspected of killing a woman, kidnapping her three small children and leaving the state, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. Arrest warrants have been issued for Joshua Robertson, 27, and Brittany Humphrey, 22, the sheriff’s department said in a statement Tuesday night. They are suspected of killing Kimberly Harvill, whose body was discovered Sunday in brush along a remote road in northe LA County in the unincorporated Lebec area near Interstate 5. Authorities believe the suspects also kidnapped Harvill’s three children, 2-year-old Josly Watkins, 3-year-old Brayden Watkins and 5-year-old Rylee Watkins. They say the couple...

Plaing beach days may be a little easier thanks to a new water quality prediction tool that forecasts bacteria levels at a handful of Califoia beaches — and Long Beach is one of them. Heal the Bay, known for its aual Beach Report Card, offers daily “nowcasts” based on various environmental conditions, such as rainfall, waves, tides and past bacteria concentrations. The information is available via a free mobile app or through Heal the Bay’s website. Created in collaboration with Stanford University, UCLA and Heal the Bay, spokesman Matthew King said the “nowcast” system makes predictions during the summer months (April 1 to Oct. 31) at five beaches: Belmont Pier in Long Beach; Doheny State B...

Los Angeles, San Feando Valley and Santa Monica BevMo: Beer and wine tasting, 4-7 p.m. Friday. Cost $5. 7100 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood,310-882-6971; 3212 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica,310-453-5600; 10984 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles,310-473-9600; 330 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles,310-855-0169; 2533 PCH, Suite A, Torrance, 310-257-0034; 1775 N. Victory Place, Burbank, 818-847-2175. www.bevmo.com Colorado Wine Co.: Wine tasting, 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Four wines. Cost $12. 2305 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles.323-478-1985. www.cowineco.com Rosso Wine Shop: Wine tasting, 5-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Three wines. Cost $10. 3459 1⁄2 N. Verdugo Road, Glendale. 818-330-9130.www.rossowineshop....

Country music’s Stagecoach Festival is set to ride out with Old Dominion and Steve Moakler on a new tour that stops in L.A. Tickets for the Stagecoach Spotlight: Old Dominion Meat and Candy Tour go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday to the general public — and as soon as Tuesday for fans who head to Old Dominion’s website. The show — with Old Dominion as headliners and Moakler as special guest — is set for Dec. 3 at Novo by Microsoft. “Stagecoach Spotlight Tour allows us to continue and strengthen artist relationships outside of a festival setting as well as creating awareness of the festival nationwide,” said Stacy Vee, talent buyer for Stagecoach and the inaugural Stagecoach Spotlight Tour in an ...

WASHINGTON — The State Department said Monday it is reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI’s now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Hillary Clinton’s private home server. Lawyers for the department told U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg on Monday that they anticipate processing and releasing the first batch of these new emails in mid-October, raising the prospect new messages sent or received by Democratic nominee could become public just before November’s presidential election. The judge is overseeing production of the emails as part of a federal public-records lawsuit filed by the conserv...

Near the coer of Linden Avenue and East Sixth Street in Long Beach, a decades-old apartment building, with a skirt of dead grass out front and a back laundry room with piles of dead flies, slouches in the shadow of a building with new lofts offering wood-style plank floors and pendant lights. A one-room apartment in the 1963-built Linden building goes for $795 a month. A studio in the other building, a mere few steps down the alley past an overflowing dumpster, fetches $1,650 a month. As the landscape of the neighborhood changes, residents in the Linden building such as Paula Lopez, who sells handmade tamales and lives with another adult and three kids, fear new property ownership will trans...

Michael Cacciotti walked the dimensions of the concrete Wilson Reservoir in the blazing sun, pleased to find almost no shade and triple digit temperatures. For about $375,000, the city is considering affixing rows of photovoltaic panels on top of the 20-foot deep reservoir and using the sun’s power to defray the cost of pumping water three miles uphill from the site in San Gabriel to residents in South Pasadena. When combined with carports catching rays from solar panels in two city-owned parking lots — sending clean power to light City Hall, the fire and police departments — the city can shave about $70,000 off its $1 million electric bill paid yearly to Southe Califoia Edison. The change w...

Three additional arrests were made this week in the evacuation areas of the Blue Cut fire, according to the San Beardino County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies arrested three people Thursday on suspicion of trying to steal a flatbed truck from an area evacuated. • Day 5 Coverage: Oveight progress on Blue Cut fire stops growth, increases containment Saturday moing, authorities aounced there had been other arrests. With nearly 35,000 homes evacuated due to the fire, 70 deputies, two per unit, have been assigned to patrol the areas, according to a news release Saturday moing. “Our focus is the safety of our citizens and protection of their property. We will fully investigate, pursue and arrest ...

The Long Beach Ministers Alliance is sponsoring a comedy show, hoping that laughter will help heal problems in the community. “Laughing Lives Matter,” a benefit comedy show, will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Terrace Theater. Lester Barrie, inspirational comedian and former Comic View host, will be host the show, featuring Doug Williams, Gilbert Esquivel, Ron Pearson and Michael Colyar with special guests Ricky Harris, Lamont Bonman and Angel Gainse. “Laughing Lives Matter is a clean comedy show designed to support our efforts and partnerships to interrupt community violence and human trafficking, as well as support homeless veterans and stimulate job development,” said Pastor ...

Long Beach Symphony officials aounced this moing that after a two-year search a new conductor and musical director has been selected. Maestro Eckart Preu, who closed the season in June with a night of music from the Romantic period as a guest conductor, will take the helm of the orchestra begiing in the 2017-18 season. “This is a wonderful moment, a very happy moment for me,” said the German-bo conductor during an aouncement luncheon today at the Boathouse on the Bay, which was attended by invited guests that included Symphony board members, musicians and politicians such as Mayor Robert Garcia. “I’m super excited, or as super excited as a German can get,” Preu joked as the audience of less...