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Rishi Sharma is hoping local veterans will help him with his mission to interview combat veterans of World War II. The 18-year-old Aguora Hills resident has completed more than 100 interviews and is shifting his attention to the Inland Empire. The recent high school graduate has decided to defer his college education so that he can conduct daily interviews. “When I first started, I was an armchair historian about WWII. I knew more than the average person, but delving into this, there’s an amazing amount of raw information,” he said. “After each interview, the picture becomes slightly more clearer of what they faced.” Through his nonprofit, Heroes of the Second World War, Sharma is conductin...

LOS ANGELES >> Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein visited the Black Lives Matter encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall today where she said she agreed with the group’s demand that Mayor Eric Garcetti fire police Chief Charlie Beck. Stein pointed to the firing of police chiefs in other cities and said she came to Los Angeles City Hall today to “support the community that’s demanding justice by asking the police chief to step down.” “We need him to be replaced by someone who doesn’t simply dismiss death after death as being within police policy and refusing to even file charges,” Stein said. Beck in January did recommend that District Attoey Jackie Lacey file criminal char...

SAN FRANCISCO >> Califoia’s latest carbon auction brought disappointing results Tuesday as litigation and lagging support by lawmakers weigh down the state’s landmark programs combating climate change. State officials said only 34u2009percent of the available carbon pollution credits were sold in the latest auction under the program, which requires companies that emit climate-changing gases to buy the pollution permits. It was a slight rebound from this spring, when investors bought just 10u2009percent of the pollution credits offered, signaling a rocky period for the state’s overall campaign against climate-changing pollution from fossil fuels. The cap-and-trade program is a keystone...

As Kim Rhode took aim at another Olympic shooting medal in Rio de Janeiro on Friday moing, a roomful of friends and supporters miles away in Redlands hung on every shot. “I had chills the entire time,” said Allison Rangel, manager of the Redlands Shooting Park, which hosted a live stream viewing party of the women’s skeet finals. “My heart was pounding. (Rhode) had to be pretty nervous. You have to be so strong-minded, and if anybody is, she is.” Rhode proved her mettle by surviving a pair of tense shoot-offs to win the bronze medal over China’s Wei Meng and become the first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympic Games. Like Rangel, many of the several dozen people assembled around the h...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Another Simone from suburban Houston made history in the Olympic pool Thursday night. Simone Manuel, pride of Sugar Land, Texas became the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic title in swimming, tying Canadian teenager Pey Olesiak for the 100-meter freestyle gold medal at the Olympic Aquatics Center. The pair touched the wall in an Olympic record 52.70 seconds. Manuel’s victory came just hours after Simone Biles, a 19-year-old out of the north Houston suburb of Spring, won the Olympic all-around title. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

When Keldren Joshua stepped out of his mother’s gray hatchback, he greeted family and friends who had waited a decade to see him on the free side of a prison fence. “Hi, everybody,” he said. The 45-year-old was arrested in Los Angeles for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams of methamphetamine and sentenced in 2006 to 15 years in prison after his mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years was extended because of outstanding traffic warrants. He became one of more than 200 nonviolent federal prisoners whose sentences were commuted last week by President Barack Obama, and Wednesday, made his exit from the federal prison on Terminal Island in San Pedro to a waiting group of family and friends. Birth...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Green, not gold, was the color of the day at the Olympic diving venue. Sure, China won its third consecutive gold medal on Tuesday, but the buzz was about the color of the water in the diving pool — a murky green. That was in stark contrast to the pool’s light blue color the previous day and also that of the clear water in the second pool used for the water polo competition at Maria Lenk Aquatic Center. British diver Tom Daley, who eaed bronze in men’s synchronized 10-meter on Monday, tweeted a photo of the two pools next to each other and captioned it, “Ermmm...what happened?!” Water quality has been a major issue surrounding the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, but in the ocean a...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> American Ibtihaj Muhammad looked like all the other fencers when she stepped on the piste, save for the non-descript black scarf covering her head. With that small gesture, Muhammad made history. Muhammad became the first American athlete Monday to compete in the Olympics with a hijab, which she wears to adhere to the tenets of her Muslim faith. Muhammad, ranked eighth in the world in sabre, beat Ukranian Olena Kravatska, 15-13, in her first match before falling to France’s Cecilia Berder, 15-12, in the round of 16. Muhammad will compete again Saturday in the team sabre event. “I feel like it’s a blessing to be able to represent so many people who don’t have voices, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — American Ibtihaj Muhammad looked like all the other fencers when she stepped on the piste, save for the non-descript black scarf covering her head. With that small gesture, Muhammad made history. Muhammad became the first American athlete Monday to compete in the Olympics with a hijab, which she wears to adhere to the tenets of her Muslim faith. Muhammad, ranked eighth in the world in sabre, beat Ukranian Olena Kravatska 15-13 in her first match before falling to France’s Cecilia Berder 15-12 in the round of 16. Muhammad will compete again on Saturday in the team sabre event. “I feel like it’s a blessing to be able to represent so many people who don’t have voices, who don’...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> A hauntingly familiar feeling came over Charmaine Caes on Thursday. In the moing news, Caes was confronted with a subject she knows all too well: gymnastic coaches sexually abusing young athletes. “My heart rate instantly started racing up,” she said, “and there was this feeling of anxiety. It was just heartbreaking.” A report that USA Gymnastics chief executive and his predecessor repeatedly failed to inform authorities of allegations of sexual abuse by coaches has upstaged the opening weekend of an Olympic Games whose first week had been expected to be dominated by a series of gold medal performances by Texas teenager Simone Biles and the U.S. women. USA Gymnastics...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump faced an all-too-clear sign of GOP divisions Friday in two Midweste battlegrounds, embraced by party leaders in one state but ignored in another as he strained to overcome deepening conces about his presidential candidacy. Some of Iowa’s Republican elite will appear alongside the celebrity businessman for an afteoon rally, his third appearance in the swing state over the past two weeks. But in neighboring Wisconsin, a state Trump insists he can win, the state’s best-known Republicans said they were too busy to attend his evening event. Sen. Ron Johnson and House Speaker Paul Ryan citied scheduling conflicts, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he’ll attend...

America is crippled by crime, terrorism and economic stagnation. Or: Strength through unity guides an already great nation through myriad challenges. After seemingly endless months of debates and primaries, allegations and celebrations, and, at last, this month’s Republican and Democratic conventions, the official campaign march to November is really, truly under way. And no one can say the two finalists haven’t crafted two very different strategies in hopes of securing the keys to the White House. And two starkly different visions of America. The GOP convention in Cleveland hammered home the notion that America is in peril and can only be rescued by Donald Trump and not Washington elites l...

Continuing to cement his environmental legacy, Gov. Jerry Brown released sweeping blue-sky plans to propel the state’s commercial trucks, ships and trains toward a zero-emissions future. The unprecedented effort aims to reshape how cargo is moved around the state —from produce on supermarket shelves to massive ship-boue containers unloading at Southe Califoia ports to Amazon boxes that arrive at your doorstep. Over the past year, plaers from the state’s department of transportation, air-quality board, energy commission and Brown’s economic-development wing hammered out the Sustainable Freight Action Plan. With this collection of 82 goals, Brown aims to make the freight-moving industry run c...

The Democratic National Convention concludes tonight — Thursday, July 28, 2016, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, with Hillary Clinton slated to accept the party’s nomination. The final speeches are scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. PST (7 p.m. EST), and Clinton’s speech should end around 8 p.m. PST (11 p.m. EST). Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took the stage Thursday at 3 p.m. PT not quite primetime, but it was still an opportunity for him to address a national audience. • RELATED STORY: Mayor Eric Garcetti touts LA as model city in DNC speech Here is the list of the speakers scheduled to appear this evening. Exact times are not given but they will take the stage in this order, per th...

PHILADELPHIA >> On a night awash in history, Hillary Clinton triumphantly became the first woman to lead a major American political party toward the White House, breaking through a barrier that painfully eluded her eight years ago. She put an electrifying cap on the Democratic convention’s second night, appearing by video from New York and declaring to cheering delegates, “We just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet.” Minutes earlier, former President Bill Clinton took on the role of devoted political spouse, declaring his wife an impassioned “change-maker” as he served as character witness. He traced their more than 40-year political and personal partnership in deep detail...

PHILADELPHIA >> As Califoia was called to take its place in American political history Tuesday, Gov.u2009Jerry Brown was flanked by Sen.u2009Barbara Boxer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. “The state that defies Donald Trump on climate change, immigration reform and the $15-an-hour minimum wage casts for Beie Sanders 221u2009votes,” Brown said as the Democratic National Convention delegates’ cheers rose. “And for Hillary Clinton, the next president of the United States, 340u2009votes!” Behind him, Sandi Cook wept. Twice before, the 55-year-old Clinton delegate from Losu2009Angeles, an African-American woman, has shed tears at moments of history. Once, eight years ago, when Barac...

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s long-shot campaign may have gotten a boost last week when Sen. Ted Cruz declined to endorse fellow Republican Donald Trump. But it’s uncertain if either of the major candidates would be hurt by a strong Johnson showing in November. Cruz’s “vote your conscience” speech at the Republican convention last week was “a backhanded endorsement” of his candidacy, Johnson said Tuesday during a meeting with Southe Califoia News Group staff. “You go into a booth and it’s multiple choice,” Johnson said, suggesting Cruz is “not going to vote for Trump and he’s not going to vote for Hillary (Clinton).” Johnson, a moderate 2-term Republican goveor of the De...

PHILADELPHIA >> Taking her place in history, Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night became the first woman to lead a major party toward the White House, a triumphant moment for Democrats to relish before plunging into a bruising general election against Republican Donald Trump. • PHOTOS: The Democratic National Convention - Day 2 After the roll call of states formalizing Clinton’s nomination, former President Bill Clinton will take the stage for a history-making appearance of his own at the Democratic convention. Former presidents often vouch for their potential successors, but never before has that candidate also been a spouse By night’s end, the Clinton campaign hopes to have moved past t...

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Jordan Spieth walked with purpose down the long corridor toward his locker, not stopping to look at the photos and scorecards that cover more than a century of golf history at Baltusrol. Maybe that was just as well. History has proven to be his toughest opponent this year, and it was bound to be a losing battle. Dating to 1934 when the Masters began, Spieth is among 14 players who have won two majors in one year. Only five of those players ever won a single major the following year, and it’s an elite group — Aold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson and Tiger Woods. Woods is the only player to win two majors in consecutive seasons. Spieth is not trying to salva...

When: 9 p.m. Tuesday. Where: The Federal Underground, 102 Pine Ave., Long Beach. Tickets: $20. Information: lb.thefederalbar.com. It’s probably a good thing that the Federal Underground was built out of a sturdy old bank vault. Why? Because it’s going to be ground zero for a heck of a party when one of music’s most hyperactive and trailblazing bands performs songs from its decades-long career during a one-night show. “We’ve been giving our fans a career retrospective. We give you some things from every era of the band and some of where we are right now. So it takes a while to get through it all,” said Norwood Fisher, bassist for the genre-blasting band Fishbone. The band, which has pa...