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LYNWOOD >> A man and a woman were killed Monday moing when their vehicle drove off the 710 Freeway and struck a tree in Lynwood, authorities said. The crash was reported at 4:42 a.m. off the northbound 710 Freeway just south of Imperial Highway, said Califoia Highway Patrol Officer Stephan Brandt. Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene, Brandt said. Firefighters were working to extricate the bodies from the vehicle. An investigation was underway to determine the cause of the crash, he said. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SANTA ANA >> Angels star outfielder Mike Trout was not injured in a car accident on the 55 Freeway Wednesday night. The Orange County Fire Authority responded to a pair of separate but related crashes each involving two vehicles at 8:50 p.m. in the southbound lane of the 55 Freeway at McFadden Avenue, Capt. Larry Kurtz said. Emergency persoel had to cut one person from a vehicle using the Jaws of Life, Kurtz said. Two people were injured. One victim went to Hoag Hospital and the other was transported to Orange County Global Medical Center, Kurtz said. Photos from the scene showed a white Chevy Sonic and a black Mercedes sedan with damage. Information about their medical conditions was...

SAN FRANCISCO >> Califoia’s $64 billion high-speed rail plan lacks reliable funding sources and is in danger of ending up with only one line that doesn’t coect to San Francisco or Los Angeles, members of a Congressional panel said Monday during a hearing. Proceeds from a state environment program that is supposed to help fund the project were far below expectations and private funding for the train has yet to materialize, Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Califoia Republican, said. “Where is the money going to come from,” LaMalfa asked Dan Richard, chairman of the rail authority’s board. Richard said private firms have expressed interest in the system but want to see the first leg up and ruing. Th...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. >> Tourist John Gleason crept through the grass, four small children close behind, inching toward a bull elk with antlers like small trees at the edge of a meadow in Yellowstone National Park. “They’re going to give me a heart attack,” said Gleason’s mother-in-law, Barbara Henry, as the group came within about a dozen yards of the massive animal. The elk’s ears then pricked up, and it eyed the children and Washington state man before leaping up a hillside. Other tourists — likewise ignoring rules to keep 25 yards from wildlife — picked up the pursuit, snapping pictures as they pressed forward and forced the animal into headlong retreat. Record visitor n...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Inteational Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach chose a curious way over the weekend to try to spin the Rio Olympic Games as a success. “I think this is a really iconic games,” Bach said. “It is also games in the middle of reality. They were not organized in a bubble. They were organized in a city where there are social problems, social divides, where real life continued, and I think it was very good for everybody.” If Bach had only actually ventured into that reality. The first Olympic Games held in South America ended Sunday the same way they began 17u2009days earlier: with Bach in a state of denial. Bach, the IOC and Riou20092016 organizers promised these woul...

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...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> A Japanese joualist asked American hurdlers Briaa Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin how they were going to celebrate their historic sweep of the Olympic Games 100-meter hurdles medals, the one and only 1-2-3 of the Rio Games so far. Was there going to be a girls’ night out? the reporter asked the trio as a late Wednesday night became an early Thursday moing in Rio. “Well every night we’re together is girls’ night out,” Castlin said. Such was the case at the Olympic Stadium Wednesday, the U.S. hurdlers putting on yet another exhibition of a dominance unmatched in any single event by another nation in women’s track and field. Rollins, the 2013 world champion, was in c...

PARAMOUNT >>The Paramount Unified School District will ask voters in November to approve a $106 million bond measure to help fund upgrades and repairs across its 19-campus system, officials said Wednesday. Superintendent Ruth Perez said many of the 15,500 students enrolled in the district attend campuses equipped with aging facilities, some built over 50 years ago. While many campuses are in need of repairs and upgrades, she said, top priorities include replacing outdated portable buildings at Paramount High School and other large campuses, upgrading school security systems and facilitating access for disabled students and faculty. “Our local schools need basic safety improvements,” P...

LOWER LAKE, Calif. — A wind-whipped wildfire roared through a Northe Califoia town threatened by a devastating blaze a year ago, wiping out more than 100 homes and businesses and forcing thousands of people to flee, authorities said Monday. The fire seemed calm Sunday before gusts kicked up the flames that tore through neighborhoods in Lower Lake, a rural town about 90 miles north of San Francisco, officials said. No one was injured, but it reached Main Street and bued the post office, a winery, an antiques store, a historic firehouse and the Habitat for Humanity office. “This fire roared through the city like a wave of water — it was a wave of fire that came through here,” said Lt. Doug Pi...

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 >> Michael Phelps closed out the Rio Olympics in the only way imaginable. Golden. Phelps put the United States ahead to stay on the butterfly leg of the 4x100-meter medley relay and Nathan Adrian finished it off, giving the most decorated athlete in Olympic history his 23rd career gold medal Saturday night. If that was the end, and Phelps insists it is, what a way to go out. He has 28 medals overall, having won five golds and a silver at these games. As Adrian touched the wall to finish off the victory, Phelps gathered the other relay swimmers, Ryan Murphy and Cody Miller, in his arms. One night after his only setback in Rio, an upset loss to Joseph Schooling in the 100 ...

Ellyn Mogford found the bus. It was a 1980s school bus repurposed into a rolling, blue-and-gold declaration of devotion to the St. Louis Rams, complete with hand-painted logos, 10 years worth of season parking permits tacked above the steering wheel and more than a dozen season schedules plastered above the ier windshield. • VIDEO: Grant Mogford takes the Rams fan bus for a spin After the family bought season tickets for the Rams’ retu to Los Angeles, Ellyn was looking for tailgating gear to give to her husband, Grant, shortly before Father’s Day. When she found the ad from a “disgruntled” St. Louis fan who wanted to unload the bus, she showed it to Grant as a passing oddity. “Of course, I ...

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...

BRASILIA, Brazil >> The three-time defending champion U.S. women’s national team will miss the Olympic final for the first time after being ousted by Sweden on penalties following a 1-1 draw in the quarterfinals on Friday. Tied after three rounds in the shootout, Sweden captain Caroline Seger beat Hope Solo and Christen Press’ attempt against Hedvig Lindhal went over the net. With the next kick, Lisa Dahlkvist beat an outstretched Solo for the win. As Sweden celebrated, U.S. captain Carli Lloyd crouched on the field at Mane Garrincha Stadium. It was the first time that an Olympic women’s match had gone to penalties. It was the earliest the United States had ever been eliminated from t...

Abbey Weitzeil of Saugus eaed her first Olympic medal, helping the U.S. women’s team to a silver in the 4x100 meters relay on Sunday. The U.S. team of Simone Manuel, Weitzeil, Dana Vollmer and Katie Ledecki finished with a time of 3 minutes, 31.89 seconds, behind the Australian team of Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie, Bronte Campbell and Cate Campbell, which set a world record at 3:30.65. Weitzeil swam the fastest leg for the American team in 52.56 and the U.S. team had a lead after her leg. Weitzeil, a 19-year-old from Canyons Aquatic Club in Santa Clarita, qualified for the Rio Games with a U.S. Open record 53.28 seconds in the 100 free. She will have more chances, swimming Wednesday in tha...

While the U.S. men’s 4x100 relay team made headlines Sunday with its gold medal performance, Valencia’s Anthony Ervin was also key part of the story and one of the Rio Olympics’ unlikeliest gold medal wiers. Ervin helped the men’s team advance from the prelims Saturday, but didn’t swim the finals and wasn’t on the podium Sunday. Nonetheless, he received a gold, along with finals swimmers Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, Ryan Held and Nathan Adrian. It was Phelps’ 19th gold medal and 23rd altogether, but Ervin’s story is as extraordinary. This spring, Ervin answered questions from Southe Califoia News Group columnist Tom Hoffarth about his...

Although Long Beach pension payments are not among the costliest in the state, some 400 retirees who worked for the city, the twin ports and Cal State Long Beach still collected six-figure salaries last year, according to data recently released by Transparent Califoia. The watchdog group on Monday published over 625,000 records detailing pension payout data for former public employees across the Golden State, including about 1,000 individuals from Long Beach collecting payments through the Califoia Public Employees’ Retirement System. The data lists pension information, including health care and other benefits. Here ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> They are here, all 10,000-plus of them, because of their skill, drive and, of course, their performance. None of them, however, would be here without one other distinction, one you’d think would be a given until remembering that these are the Olympics, where you don’t have to be a weightlifter to feel encumbered by a significant burden. So it was shortly after arriving in Brazil that American water polo player Josh Samuels, a rookie at the Games, met a veteran cyclist who offered some interesting advice, one athlete to another. “She told me, ‘Don’t forget to compete,’” the former Villa Park High and UCLA standout said. “I heard those words and thought, ‘Wow, that rin...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Saturday that the results of November’s U.S. presidential election could weigh heavily on his city’s chances of hosting the 2024 Olympics, saying that a victory by Donald Trump could tu off IOC voters. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Garcetti also said Los Angeles could offer “the last best hope” for the United States to host the Summer Olympics again before the American people begin “tuning out” from the games. Garcetti, a 45-year-old Democrat and supporter of Hillary Clinton, is in Brazil to observe the Rio de Janeiro Games and pitch his city’s bid to members of the Inteational Olympic Committee. One of the main topics of conversati...