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HUNTINGTON BEACH — A police officer’s badge deflected a bullet heading for his heart in a gun battle during a car chase Friday moing that ended in the Cajon Pass. The officer was not hurt. Police responding to a domestic violence call in the area of Bushard Street and Yorktown Avenue in Huntington Beach found themselves in a gun battle car chase with a man who fled from the home as they arrived after midnight Friday. “When the officers arrived at the location, a male suspect got into his vehicle and drove away,” said Officer Jeifer Marlatt, a department spokeswoman. The man began driving eastbound on Yorktown with officers in pursuit. Then, abruptly, he made a U-tu and opened fire on the tw...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> The last time Anthony Ervin won an individual Olympic gold medal, the thing helped nearly sink his entire life. Doesn’t sound like that will be a problem this time. On Friday, the Hart High graduate, at age 35, won his second individual gold, claiming the 50-meter freestyle. A day later, Ervin reflected on the difference between this medal and the one he took home as a teenager from the 2000 Sydney Games and the people who helped him ea both. “That’s what got me here, the people,” he said. “When I was younger, I don’t think I understood that. I was still wayward with my ego, thrusting forward. The weight of this gold feels much lighter knowing that it’s being carried ...

Four convicted killers drew 16 year-to-life prison terms Wednesday for the 2012 Jurupa Valley-to-Long Beach slaying of a man who was shot in the head, beaten with a sledgehammer and strangled. But the motive for the brutal murder of 24-year-old Orange resident Hector Jauregui Campos remains a mystery. “We don’t know for certain the reason for the attack,” Los Angeles County District Attoey spokeswoman Sarah Ardalani said hours after the sentencing of Jurupa Valley residents Jose Duenas, 23, and Rafael Antonio Porales, 25, Long Beach resident Christopher Arevalo Ramirez, 24, and 25-year-old Rafael Bravo, whose hometown was unavailable. All four were convicted July 25 of second-degree murder ...

A motorcyclist died Wednesday evening in a collision in Central Long Beach. Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Marlene Arrona confirmed the motorcyclist died after responding police officers attempted to save his life by providing first aid. Long Beach Fire Department persoel also responded to the crash. The deceased motorcyclist was a male adult. His identity was not immediately available. The collision happened shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of E. Pacific Coast Highway and Lemon Avenue. The driver of the other vehicle involved remained present at the site of the crash. Detectives from the police department’s collision investigations detail will investigate the...

SAN DIEGO >> Comic-Con Inteational, now in its 47th year, draws thousands to the Gaslamp District every July, but not all of those people are actually attending the four-day convention. If you didn’t manage to score a badge this year, that doesn’t mean you can’t take part in all the glorious nerdy fun, and you might not even have to stand in a line oveight to do it. There will be a slew of events outside of the convention center to appease your ier geek that are open to the general public from Thursday through July 24. Here’s a quick look at some of the top outside Comic-Con events you won’t want to miss. Podcast tapings Chris Hardwick, Kevin Smith and more will be recording their pod...

No more excuses for being late, San Pedro. As of about 2 p.m. Wednesday, the giant clock that had kept everyone on time for decades began working again. Built in 1942 on what was the town’s new Municipal Ferry Building, the timepiece has been an iconic part of the waterfront, visible far and wide from its spot at the end of Sixth Street at Harbor Boulevard. But nothing lasts forever. Eventually, the old clock began to run out of juice. “Over a year ago, we noticed it was losing time,” said Marifrances Trivelli, director of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum now housed in the iconic terra-cotta building on San Pedro’s waterfront. By tuing the power off and rebooting, museum staff was usually ab...

A man allegedly threatened a fire chief in Signal Hill, then led police on a nearly 100-mile chase to Fallbrook in San Diego County before he was arrested, police said Sunday. About 11:20 a.m., Bonsall resident Andrew Carr approached a Long Beach Fire Department employee at a Signal Hill business and made verbal threats against his life, Califoia Highway Patrol Officer Jim Bettencourt said. Long Beach police officers gave chase as Carr fled in a Ford van and recklessly drove through Long Beach, Bettencourt said. As the chase continued southbound on the I-15, Oceanside CHP officers took over the pursuit at Mission Avenue, he said. Several attempts to use spike strips were unsuccessful, Bette...

SHANGHAI, CHINA >> The first guest entered the newest Disneyland at a full sprint. He leaped and thrust a finger in the air. He screamed happily at the lines of cast members cheering on the sides of a rainy Mickey Avenue, China’s equivalent of Main Street USA. Then, he tued left and continued ruing toward TRON Lightcycle Power Run. History might never know his name. It was 11:32 a.m., and Disney’s sixth park, after five years, $5.5 billion and unprecedented cooperation between govements, had opened. This was not like the legendary 1955 opening of Anaheim in Disneyland, in which women’s heels stuck in the fresh asphalt. Shanghai Disneyland is beautifully ready. Merideth Stoecker, of Ka...

LOS ANGELES — Actor Michael Jace, who portrayed a Los Angeles police officer on the television series “The Shield,” was sentenced today to 40 years to life in prison after apologizing for fatally shooting his wife in front of their two young children in their Hyde Park home. The 53-year-old actor -- who spoke for the first time in court about his wife April’s May 19, 2014, shooting death -- said, “There is no justification for my actions that night at all, and I am profoundly sorry for the pay I have caused everyone ... There is no replacing April.” The woman’s mother, Kay Henry, quickly walked out of court after Jace maintained that “there was no premeditated anything.” “I realize it doesn...

On one particularly hot Saturday moing in August of 1985, the evil apparition known as the Night Stalker became nothing more than a man, a beaten and bloody man who needed the cops to save his life. A new movie, “The Night Stalker” starring Lou Diamond Phillips, will premiere at The Frida Cinema at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Santa Ana with several members of the cast, crew and people involved in the arrest of Richard Ramirez expected to attend. The film is a fictional account of an attoey’s attempt to get the serial killer to confess to crimes he may or may not have committed in Texas before his murder spree in Califoia in the mid-1980s. One of the flashback scenes in the film shows Ramirez, then ...

La Espada, Harbor Breeze Cruises’ new $4.5 million vessel, is both a means of taking passengers on a whale watching jouey and a testament to company founder Dan Salas’ willingness to take risks throughout his career. The name, La Espada, is the Spanish word for “sword.” To Salas, it’s also a symbol of faith. “I thought it was fitting that I name it something that is bigger than me,” he said. “I’m only one man and I didn’t have the power to achieve this on my own. I had to have faith and trust.” La Espada is now the eighth vessel in Harbor Breeze Cruises’ fleet. The craft can accommodate 250 people and according to its designers, Teknicraft of New Zealand, the 83-foot La Espada can cruise at ...

This week, Califoia will become the fifth state to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with prescriptions from their doctors, but getting those prescriptions won’t be easy. Starting June 9, terminally ill Califoians with six months or less to live can request a doctor’s prescription for medications intended to end their lives peacefully. If that sounds simple, it won’t be. Califoia’s End of Life Option Act creates a long list of administrative hurdles that both patients and their doctors must clear. For instance, you must make multiple requests for the drugs, orally and in writing, and provide a written attestation within 48 hours of taking the medication (you must be able to ta...