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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...

If you’re a “Game of Thrones” fan, you’ve noticed that everyone who’s anyone is talking about some secret surprise “Game of Thrones” thing happening in LA on Monday. So, what is it? Well, we’re not totally sure yet, but we’ll be there to find out. For now, we know a few details, thanks to a press release sent by the event organizers. Here’s what we can tell you: Music is coming That’s what the 12-second trailer posted to YouTube by the show says, anyway. The composer of that epic GoT music Ramin Djawadi will be at the Hollywood Palladium along with a full orchestra to play the show’s rousing music. Bran is coming too Bran Stark, errr Isaac Hempstead Wright, will be there, probably on stage ...

The number of teenagers finding summer jobs surged in June to a three-year high, according to a new report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Employment among teens ages 16 to 19 increased by 691,000, the report said. That was up 13 percent from the 609,000 teen jobs that were added in June of 2015, and it was the biggest boost for that month since 779,000 teens secured summer work in June 2013. Teen hiring for May and June — the first two months of the three-month summer hiring period — outpaced hiring for the same period last year. A total of 847,000 teens were hired in May and June of this year, a 7.1 percent increase over the 791,000 who were hired during the same t...

Califoia employers added 40,300 jobs in June and the Golden State led the nation in year-over-year growth with 461,100 jobs added, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. Last month’s increase was more than double the amount of jobs added the previous month and Califoia’s aual employment gain outpaced Florida, which ranked second with 244,500 jobs added, and Texas, which added 171,100. Califoia’s unemployment rate ticked up to 5.4 percent in June from 5.2 percent in May but it still landed well below the year-ago rate of 6.2 percent. Kimberly Ritter-Martinez, an economist with the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., said the numbers are a testament to the sta...

The Tony Hawk Foundation considers Long Beach the skateboard capital of the country. And finally, the city has its own world-renowned event, the Dew Tour happening this weekend. So says the head of a local organization benefitting from the weekend event that will draw skateboard pros from around the nation, and who has championed the benefits of skateboarding for years. Action Sports Kids Foundation founder/director Mike Donelon said he’s wanted an event such as this weekend’s Dew Tour to come to the city since founding ASK two decades ago. His nonprofit is dedicated to providing an alteative to the streets with sports and other activities. “It’s been the same group with the same mission fo...

NEW YORK >> Roger Ailes is out as chief executive at Fox News Chael, his career at the network he built from scratch and ran with an iron hand for nearly 20 years over with stuing swiftness following allegations that he forced out a former anchor after she spued his sexual advances. • PHOTOS: Roger Ailes is out at Fox News Network parent 21st Century Fox said that Rupert Murdoch, the company’s executive chairman, would run Fox News and its sister Fox Business Network, which Ailes had also led, until a successor could be found. Murdoch and 21st Century Fox and Murdoch did not address the widening scandal in the statement on the resignation but lauded Ailes for his contributions. Ailes ...

CLEVELAND >> Undercutting calls for Republican unity, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz stubboly refused to endorse Donald Trump on Wednesday night as he addressed the GOP convention, igniting thunderous boos from furious delegates as he encouraged Americans to simply “vote your conscience” in November. Later, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence accepted the party’s nomination for vice president. A favorite of evangelicals, Pence swiftly displayed the conservative credentials that secured his place on the ticket. He framed the November presidential race as crucial to defining the makeup of the Supreme Court for the next 40u2009years, promised to defend the Second Amendment and “the sanctity of life” and declare...

NEW YORK >> His ruing mate largely unknown to the public, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is introducing Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a steady conservative with goveing experience inside and outside of Washington. Trump and Pence will appear together Saturday moing at a midtown Manhattan hotel, an unofficial kickoff event to the Republican National Convention two days before it opens in Cleveland. While Trump showcases his choice, Democrat Hillary Clinton’s team is already painting Pence’s conservative social viewpoints as out of step with the mainstream. Trump chose Pence in part to ease some Republicans’ conces about Trump’s temperament and lack of political experience. T...

SAN DIEGO >> Comic-Con Inteational is about to unleash a smorgasbord of entertainment news on the world. The four-day pop-culture phenomenon will draw hundreds of thousands to the San Diego Convention Center and the Gaslamp Quarter Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24. There are hundreds of panels that Comic-Con badge holders can attend — with some waiting in line for up to 24 hours to get into the bigger panels in the massive Hall H. Hall H is the maker of nerdy dreams for a lucky 6,500 people. For those able to get into the convention center’s largest room, there will be stars aplenty, exclusive footage shown and maybe a chance to hang out with the cast of “Star Wars” at a surpr...

DENVER — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has picked his ruing mate — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. A former congressman, Pence is in many ways what Trump is not: a strong social conservative with deep ties to the party’s establishment. As such, there is a record of deep disagreements between the two names on the top of the GOP ticket this year. TRADE Pence has been a longtime, aggressive advocate of trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Trans Pacific Partnership. Trump wants to revoke NAFTA — signed by Bill Clinton in 1993 — and do away with the Obama administration-negotiated TPP. Trump has made his opposition to trade agreements the centerpiec...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his ruing mate, adding political experience and conservative bona fides to his Republican presidential ticket. Trump aounced his decision on Twitter Friday moing, capping a frenzied 24 hours of speculation about his choice. • PHOTOS: Donald Trump taps Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as ruing mate A news conference was set for Saturday for the two men who will take on Hillary Clinton and her Democratic ruing mate in November. Trump offered the vice presidential spot to Pence Thursday, and the goveor boarded a plane for New York in anticipation of a Friday aouncement, according to a Republican with knowledge of the process. But shortly af...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has offered Mike Pence the job of vice president, and Trump aides have told the Indiana goveor the formal aouncement could be made on Saturday. That’s according to a Republican with direct knowledge of the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the details of Trump’s search for a ruing mate. Trump made the offer Thursday afteoon, before Pence traveled late in the day to New York, the Republican said. The aouncement originally had been plaed for Friday moing in midtown Manhattan, but Trump delayed his plans after the truck attack in Nice, France, that left more than 80 people dead. The billionaire said ...

How do you actually take care of yourself in traumatic situations? And how do you take care of yourself when you are being bombarded with gruesome images? There's a program at Drexel University in Philadelphia that answers those questions daily. It's called Healing Hurt People. It's an organization that works to undue the impacts of violence on young people. It helps victims of gunshot, stab, or assault wounds receive counseling for emotional and social stress related to violence and PTSD. Healing Hurt People was the subject of aThis American Life feature back in 2013. We reached out to Dr. John Rich, a co-director of the program, for advice. He gave us five suggestions. 1. Understand that y...

DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of police officers in Dallas (all times local): 10:10 a.m. A Texas law enforcement official has told The Associated Press that a slain suspect in the attack on Dallas police was 25-year-old Micah Johnson. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he said he was not authorized to release the information. There were no immediate details on the suspect’s middle name or hometown. • PHOTOS: Police say snipers shot 12 police officers in Dallas, 5 dead The attack began Thursday night during a protest about the recent killings by police of black men in Louisiana and Miesota. Five officers were killed and seven others were wounded. Two civilian...

Mike Trout said he is not participating in the Home Run Derby during the All-Star Game events next week. “Eventually I’m going to do it, just not this year,” Trout said Tuesday afteoon. Trout is expected to be named a starting outfielder for the American League team when the rosters are unveiled on ESPN at 4 p.m. Tuesday. It will be Trout’s fifth All-Star Game. He is familiar enough with the schedule that he apparently feels adding in the Derby would be too much. “It’s a long two days,” Trout said. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Joe Jares, a former Los Angeles Daily News sports editor and columnist in the 1980s and ’90s who spent more than 15 years at Sports Illustrated, died Saturday night in Los Angeles. He was 78. A general-assignment reporter at the Los Angeles Times as well as a writer for United Press Inteational and the Los Angeles Herald-Express before joining SI, Jares covered more than 20 sports, specializing in teis and college basketball. He authored nine sports-related books during his career, topped off by the 1974 “Whatever Happened to Gorgeous George,” an affectionate history of pro wrestling from the 1940s to the ’60s. Sports Illustrated ranked it at No. 76 on its list of the “Top 100 Sports Books o...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the shooting at an Orlando nightclub (all times local): — 4:20 p.m. The father of the gunman in the Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub is Seddique Mateen, a native of Afghanistan who appears on a television program on broadcast on a Califoia chael. The show is known for “its anti-US tirades” and “pro-Taliban” remarks that are broadcast in the Dari language, according to a former Afghan official. The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he did not want to be linked to coverage of the shooting. Mateen is the father of Omar Mateen, who authorities say killed 50 people at the nightclub. The official said Seddique Mateen’s “Durand Jirga Show,”...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the shooting at an Orlando nightclub (all times local): — 3 p.m. Multiple news outlets are reporting that the man who killed 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando called 911 shortly before the attack and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. The media outlets cited uamed law enforcement officials in their reports. Day Banks is an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He says authorities are investigating whether the deadliest mass shooting in mode American history was an act of domestic or inteational terrorism, and if the shooter acted alone. The suspect in the Orlando attack was identified as Omar Mateen of Port St. Lucie, Florida. T...

A young man who was killed in a North Long Beach drive-by shooting early Thursday was a childhood friend of Geron Lacy, a 16-year-old who was shot to death less than a mile away at Ramona Park in early May. Wylee Pritchett, 20, of Lakewood, was visiting with friends near 64th Street and Coronado Avenue around 4 a.m. Thursday when a vehicle approached and shots rang out, said Dell Malone, the grandfather of another man who was shot but survived. Pritchett was standing in front of Malone’s home with the other victim when the shooting occurred. Malone said he had gone out to take his dog for a walk, then noticed a car approaching with its lights off. “I thought it was strange,” he said. Malone...

The Latest on the death of Muhammad Ali (all times EDT): 3:45 p.m. Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says one of the many ways that he’ll fondly remember Muhammad Ali is for how he liked to torment his opponents before fights. “He would go to the training camp of his opponents and talk to them and torture them,” Abdul-Jabbar told The Associated Press on Saturday. “I thought that was hilarious. Soy Liston, he could have fried an egg on his head when he did stuff like that. I totally enjoyed that. He was kind of like acting up for all the rest of us ... kind of like our folk hero.” Abdul-Jabbar says he and Ali spoke many times about their shared Islamic faith, and how difficult it w...