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NORFOLK, Va. >> Hermine continued Monday to twist hundreds of miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean and was expected to keep swimmers and surfers out of beach waters because of its dangerous waves and rip currents on the last day of the long holiday weekend. “We’re not looking at a landfall,” said Deis Feltgen of the National Hurricane Center on Sunday, adding Hermine is just sitting and pushing the water up along the coast making storm surge a great conce. It was expected to stall over the water before weakening again. Goveors all along the Easte Seaboard aounced emergency preparations. A tropical storm waing was in effect from New York’s Long Island to Massachusetts. Tropical storm-...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a funeral home company have settled dueling litigation conceing the lease of land at six Catholic cemeteries for the operation of mortuaries, including one in Long Beach. Lawyers for S.E. Funeral Homes of Califoia Inc. filed paperwork Aug. 18 in Los Angeles Superior Court stating that the resolution includes the sale and transfer of the mortuaries to a subsidiary of the archdiocese in a deal scheduled to close Nov. 30. No additional specifics were given. S.E. Funeral Homes filed suit in September 2014, alleging breach of contract and seeking a court order to prevent the archdiocese from taking possession of the premises. The archdiocese countersued in June...

Chef Arthur Gonzalez said he is weeks away from realizing his goal of opening a new seafood place, called Roe Restaurant, in Belmont Shore after experiencing so many challenges there that he ended up opening an entirely different restaurant since his first attempt four years ago. “We’re starting to come down to crunch time,” Gonzalez said. Late last week, the future home of Roe Restaurant was still a dusty construction site in the space next to its sister enterprise Roe Xpress, a fish market selling dishes prepared from the likes of salmon, mahi mahi, yellowtail and octopus, as well as a place where clam “chowdah” is spelled with Boston accent even though Hatch chiles are part of the recipe....

Long Beach’s Plaing Commission will decide Thursday whether to allow plans and permitting for the Belmont Beach and Aquatic Center to move forward. If all the approvals are granted, the $103 million project would move on to the City Council, then the state Coastal Commission. The center is designed to replace the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool, which was to down after engineers determined the natatorium was in danger of collapse in the event of an earthquake. The proposed replacement, designed by architect Michael Rotondi, includes two Olympic-sized pools (one inside a structure, the other outside), an indoor diving well, a recreational pool and other amenities. If approved, a transparent oval ...

Organizers behind the inaugural Music Tastes Good festival pledged that they will try to solve potential problems relating to parking and business owners’ abilities to serve their customers while the event takes place over the course of three late September days in the East Village area of Long Beach. “No one is going to be blocked out of their home or business,” event organizer Josh Fischel said Thursday moing, during the first of two plaed meetings between festival plaers and conceed members of the public. Materials handed out during the meeting reported that Music Tastes Good plaers will foot the parking bills for anyone who loses access to a paid parking space while street closures are ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> In the shadow of mighty Usain Bolt, Allyson Felix achieved something unprecedented in women’s track and field Friday by wiing her fifth Olympic gold medal. And together with the rest of the 4x100-meter relay team, she brought the United States closer to its biggest medal haul in decades. The tally could have been higher, too, had the U.S. men’s 4x100 team not been disqualified after finishing third in the subsequent final. The women’s team was smooth, despite the rocky path to the final. Ruing the second leg in the relay, Felix kept the U.S. up there with the mighty Jamaicans, before English Gardner and Tori Bowie brought the baton, tightly clenched in their hands, ho...

The findings of a $100,000 parking study in Belmont Shore will be revealed on Sept. 1 at a meeting with the consultants performing the work. Third District Councilwoman Suzie Price originally scheduled the public meeting for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bay Shore Community Congregational Church, 5100 The Toledo. But the Plaing Commission study session on the Southeast Area Specific Plan (SEASP) is at 5 p.m. the same night, so the parking meeting has moved to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept 1. It still will be at the Bay Shore church. The City Council originally requested the parking study in 2014, after the Belmont Shore Parking and Business Improvement Advisory Commission aounced it was considering buy...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> A hush fell over Olympic Stadium as the eight finalists in the Olympic Games 100-meter final took their marks Sunday night, the only noise coming from helicopters hovering above. The tension, however, was deafening. It was as if the whole stadium, the whole Rio Games, was collectively holding its breath in anticipation of a moment the world had been waiting months for, maybe longer. The starter’s pistol was finally fired unleashing a roar that echoed past the stadium’s aging walls through Rio and beyond, and tens of thousands of flashes, all of it chasing Jamaica’s Usain Bolt down the blue track deeper into history. Bolt, ruing his last 100 final at a major champions...

What to watch: USA’s Justin Gatlin competes in the 100 meter final with the hope of preventing Jamaica’s Usain Bolt from being the first man to win three Olympic titles in the event. American LaShawn Merritt will compete in the 400 after reaching the podium in 2008. All five members of the USA gymnastics team compete in an event during the apparatus finals. Plan your Olympics schedule for today with the TV listings. USA Medal Count: Gold: 24 Silver: 18 Bronze: 18 Stories: • Drowning in life, Olympic champion Anthony Ervin rescued by water • Sarah Hammer, U.S. gain ground on British cyclists in team pursuit • Miller: Covering Dong Dong, not Jared Goff • Michael Phelps eas 23rd gold medal wit...

Rio de Janeiro >> Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana smashed a more than two-decade old world record en route to wiing the Olympic Games 10,000-meter title and track and field’s first gold medal on an overcast Friday moing at Olympic Stadium. Ayana’s 29 minute, 17.45 victory was simply one of the greatest performances in women’s track and field history, knocking more than 14 seconds off the previous world record set by China’s Wang Junxia in 1993. “Getting to this point is a dream come true,” Ayana, 24, said. “I never thought that this would happen and I’m so in awe.” Ayana wasn’t alone in her disbelief. Before the field of 37 ruers stepped up to the starting line Friday moing, a woman had broken...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Michael Phelps held up four fingers as the wake of his Olympic Games 200-meter individual medley victory washed up against him on a historic night at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. That’s four, as in four gold medals — four and counting — for Phelps at these Games. Four as in four career gold medals in the 200 IM. Phelps became the first swimmer in Olympic history to win the same event in four consecutive Games Thursday, blowing away the 200 IM field with perhaps his most dominating performance in Rio yet. Phelps touched the wall, an Olympic champion for the 22nd time, in 1-minute, 54.66 seconds, nearly two seconds ahead of Japan’s Kosuke Hagino. But Phelps had to sha...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Katie Ledecky was the fastest swimmer in the pool, and she brought her American teammates along for the ride. The 19-year-old tued in another overpowering performance Wednesday to carry the United States to victory in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay, capturing her third gold and fourth medal overall at the Rio Olympics. The U.S. trailed through the first three legs of the race, as Sweden, China and then Australia swapped the top spot. Then, it was Ledecky’s tu on the anchor leg. She blew everyone away. Ledecky tued in a split of 1 minute, 53.74 seconds, which was nearly 2.5 seconds faster than her next-fastest teammate, Allison Schmitt in 1:56.21. Only one other swim...

Few things are as aoying to us Southe Califoians as the constant traffic gridlock we often face on freeways and surface streets. And it impacts business — big time. On any given day, scores of Southland employees arrive late for work because they’re grappling with a traffic backup or a road construction project that always seems to be going on at the most inopportune time. When employees arrive late that means they’re late in getting their day started. So that important meeting or project they were intending to tackle will have to wait, or in some cases be postponed until the following day. One employee arriving late to work might not have a significant impact. But multiply that by the hund...

Slowing traffic down on Ocean Boulevard could have a great side benefit — more parking. City officials and community groups are mulling two separate “road diet” projects, one in Belmont Shore from the Belmont Pier to Alamitos Bay, and other on the Peninsula from 54th Place to 72nd Street. Traffic may be reduced to one lane in each direction of the coastline stretches, in favor of bike lanes and more parking. “When we talk about it, the most common conce is that we’re going to cause traffic congestion,” city traffic engineer Eric Widstrand said. “That’s what we want to do. It slows the traffic down.” Ocean Boulevard is currently four lanes, and is a popular route used to skirt the traffic-cl...

Slowing traffic down on Ocean Boulevard could have a great side benefit — more parking. City officials and community groups are mulling two separate “road diet” projects, one in Belmont Shore from the Belmont Pier to Alamitos Bay, and other on the Peninsula from 54th Place to 72nd Street. Traffic may be reduced to one lane in each direction of the coastline stretches, in favor of bike lanes and more parking. “When we talk about it, the most common conce is that we’re going to cause traffic congestion,” city traffic engineer Eric Widstrand said. “That’s what we want to do. It slows the traffic down.” Ocean Boulevard is currently four lanes, and is a popular route used to skirt the traffic-cl...

LONG BEACH — A man’s body washed ashore today in the Alamitos Bay area of Long Beach, authorities said. The discovery was made at about 7 a.m. at 62nd Place and Seaside Walk, said Nancy Pratt of the Long Beach Police Department. “There is no indication of foul play,” Pratt said. Police are checking to see if the man matches the description of any missing persons. The man is believed in his 40s, said Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter. Advertisement This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article from FiveFilters.org: Most Labou...

When Wally the whale washed up dead at popular Dockweiler State Beach next to LAX just before the Fourth of July weekend, the 40-ton carcass was towed out to sea with hopes it would decompose far from the shoreline, allowing nature to take its course. But the bobbing, 45-foot whale didn’t stay out in the open ocean. Less than a week later, the 45-foot-long humpback resurfaced near San Pedro. Lifeguards again towed it out to sea. On Sunday, however, the carcass made its way close to shore in Newport Beach, when lifeguards spent the entire day towing it away from the crowded beaches. Then, a strong south wind oveight again brought the humpback close to shore Monday moing, and lifeguards were w...

EUGENE, Ore. >> Her legs gave out before her heart did. So with her legs buckling beneath her in the final 20 meters of the Olympic Trials 1,500-meter final Sunday, Brenda Martinez willed herself across the finish line before crashing to the hard, wet track not knowing if she was headed to the Olympic Games or more heartbreak. “I didn’t even know what place I got,” Martinez said later. The crowd would tell her. While Martinez struggled to pick herself up one more time at the trials, spent and uncertain, the public address aouncer began to read the results. First place, Jey Simpson, New Balance 4 minutes, 4.74 seconds. Second place, Shaon Rowbury, the Nike Oregon Project, 4:05.39. Then...

DALLAS >> The suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police taunted authorities during two hours of negotiations, laughing at them, singing and at one point asking how many officer he had shot, the police chief said Sunday. Micah Johnson, a black Army veteran, insisted on speaking with a black negotiator and wrote in blood on the wall of a parking garage where police coered and later killed him, David Brown told CNN’s “State of the Union.” Johnson, who was apparently wounded in a shootout with police, wrote the letters “RB” and other markings, which investigators are trying to decipher by looking through evidence from Johnson’s suburban Dallas home, Brown said. The chief defended the ...

The owner of a new comic book shop in Long Beach’s shoreline area wants customers to imagine themselves living their own adventure when they step inside and see the vivid cover art adoing new releases and vintage issues throughout the store. “The main theme of my store is I want to make you feel like you’re in some kind of comic book. Some kind of story,” Shoreline Comics owner Feon Cooper said. Shoreline Comics is located inside the Shoreline Village shopping center, the seaside destination that’s classy enough to be home to the fine dining of Parkers’ Lighthouse and quirky enough to have room for Hot Licks, a retailer specializing in super-spicy hot sauces. Inside Shoreline Comics, Cooper...