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NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after the former congressman was accused in yet another sexting scandal. • PHOTOS: Huma Abedin leaving Anthony Weiner following latest sexting revelations “After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,” she said in a statement issued by Clinton’s presidential campaign. “Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy.” The New York Post published photos late Sunday that it said Weiner had sent last year t...

WASHINGTON >> With the hourglass ruing out for his administration, President Barack Obama’s health care law is struggling in many parts of the country. Double-digit premium increases and exits by big-name insurers have caused some to wonder whether “Obamacare” will go down as a failed experiment. If Democrat Hillary Clinton wins the White House, expect her to mount a rescue effort. But how much Clinton could do depends on finding willing partners in Congress and among Republican goveors, a real political challenge. “There are turbulent waters,” said Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s first secretary of Health and Human Services. “But do I see this as a death knell? No.” Next year’s health ins...

Hamstrung by strict limits on political contributions, Califoia lawmakers have found a way to continue to extract large sums from some of Sacramento’s most powerful special interests. Increasingly, they’re using “ballot measure committees,” little-known and barely regulated accounts that are supposed to promote or oppose state and local initiatives but in practice are paying for consultants and polling firms, new suits and trips to Mexico. And the money for the politicians’ perks comes in the form of five-figure donations from the same special interests that state rules were intended to curtail. An analysis by Digital First Media, which includes this news organization, shows that the number...

The “Great Food Truck Race” on Food Network has always been smitten with Southe Califoia competitors. This season is no different. The show, which debuts Sunday night, features the owners of Bigmista’s Barbecue & Sammich Shop and Bigmista’s Moing Wood, both in Long Beach. The barbecue restaurants are run by husband-and-wife team Neil and Phyllis Strawder, best known for their signature wood-smoked brisket. In the opening episode, the contestants are involved in a fuel-cake eating contest at a Los Angeles theme park. “I leaed a really big lesson, and that was – I never want a food truck. It is really hard work,” Neil Strawder said during a phone interview Tuesday. Strawder, a familiar fa...

Julie Jeffs had taken a 6 a.m. flight from Michigan last week and arrived late in the moing to LAX, where she expected to spend a long day hunkering down at the Tom Bradley Inteational Terminal before hopping on an 11:30 p.m. red eye to Fiji. But the airline ticket counter wouldn’t be open until 7 p.m., so Jeffs was unable to get a boarding pass and clear security, denying her access to the extensive variety of gourmet restaurants near the gates at the newly revamped terminal at Los Angeles Inteational Airport. So she began looking for a sit-down restaurant, lugging around a 50-pound suitcase so she could have a decent meal and a cold glass of beer. It was a long search. There are just two ...

Plaing beach days may be a little easier thanks to a new water quality prediction tool that forecasts bacteria levels at a handful of Califoia beaches — and Long Beach is one of them. Heal the Bay, known for its aual Beach Report Card, offers daily “nowcasts” based on various environmental conditions, such as rainfall, waves, tides and past bacteria concentrations. The information is available via a free mobile app or through Heal the Bay’s website. Created in collaboration with Stanford University, UCLA and Heal the Bay, spokesman Matthew King said the “nowcast” system makes predictions during the summer months (April 1 to Oct. 31) at five beaches: Belmont Pier in Long Beach; Doheny State B...

WASHINGTON — The State Department said Monday it is reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI’s now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Hillary Clinton’s private home server. Lawyers for the department told U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg on Monday that they anticipate processing and releasing the first batch of these new emails in mid-October, raising the prospect new messages sent or received by Democratic nominee could become public just before November’s presidential election. The judge is overseeing production of the emails as part of a federal public-records lawsuit filed by the conserv...

Near the coer of Linden Avenue and East Sixth Street in Long Beach, a decades-old apartment building, with a skirt of dead grass out front and a back laundry room with piles of dead flies, slouches in the shadow of a building with new lofts offering wood-style plank floors and pendant lights. A one-room apartment in the 1963-built Linden building goes for $795 a month. A studio in the other building, a mere few steps down the alley past an overflowing dumpster, fetches $1,650 a month. As the landscape of the neighborhood changes, residents in the Linden building such as Paula Lopez, who sells handmade tamales and lives with another adult and three kids, fear new property ownership will trans...

Michael Cacciotti walked the dimensions of the concrete Wilson Reservoir in the blazing sun, pleased to find almost no shade and triple digit temperatures. For about $375,000, the city is considering affixing rows of photovoltaic panels on top of the 20-foot deep reservoir and using the sun’s power to defray the cost of pumping water three miles uphill from the site in San Gabriel to residents in South Pasadena. When combined with carports catching rays from solar panels in two city-owned parking lots — sending clean power to light City Hall, the fire and police departments — the city can shave about $70,000 off its $1 million electric bill paid yearly to Southe Califoia Edison. The change w...

Long Beach Symphony officials aounced this moing that after a two-year search a new conductor and musical director has been selected. Maestro Eckart Preu, who closed the season in June with a night of music from the Romantic period as a guest conductor, will take the helm of the orchestra begiing in the 2017-18 season. “This is a wonderful moment, a very happy moment for me,” said the German-bo conductor during an aouncement luncheon today at the Boathouse on the Bay, which was attended by invited guests that included Symphony board members, musicians and politicians such as Mayor Robert Garcia. “I’m super excited, or as super excited as a German can get,” Preu joked as the audience of less...

A pair of plump penguin chicks, their black-and-white plumage not quite matching the tuxedo look of their adult counterparts, made their public debut Thursday at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. The birds — both males who have yet to be named — hatched in May. One chick is the offspring of birds known at the aquarium as Kate and Avery, both of whom arrived in Long Beach after they were rescued from the Brazilian coast in 2011. The other chick is the offspring of penguins known as Patsy and Robbie, with the latter also saved from the Brazilian shoreline. The 20 penguins living at the aquarium’s June Keyes Penguin Habitat are Magellanic penguins, which rarely venture as far north as...

Quality affordable healthcare and holding elected officials accountable for their decisions are among the highest priorities for Hispanics in the U.S., according to a new Harris Poll survey. Seventy-seven percent of Hispanics surveyed rated quality affordable healthcare as “absolutely essential/extremely important” to improving opportunity in their community while 76 percent rated holding elected officials accountable as “absolutely essential/extremely important,” said Abigail Golden-Vazquez, executive director of The Aspen Institute’s Latinos and Society Program, at the institute’s second aual America’s Future Summit on Tuesday at the Califoia Endowment in downtown Los Angeles. The Washing...

The SuperScoopers have landed! Just in time for sizzling temperatures this weekend, the county officially unveiled a huge part of its aerial firefighting fleet Friday. •RELATED STORY: SuperScoopers arrive 3 weeks early to help combat LA County brush fires Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich and Fire Chief Daryl L. Osby showcased the recent arrival of two Canadian SuperScoopers and an Erickson Air-Crane. •RELATED STORY: Massive Sand fire nearly contained after more than a week The water bombers landed at Van Nuys Airport Aug. 6 after their flight from their home base in Quebec, Canada. They are usually leased during the fall for work on L.A. County’s fires, but this year they ha...

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...

Before Steve Jobs invented the PC, computers were room-sized, difficult to operate and expensive. Now they fit in the palm of your hand and perform complex functions at the sound of your voice. Likewise, air pollution sensors are going mainstream, changing from complex devices operated by scientists in white lab coats to hand-held detectors sold on Amazon.com or e-bay for a few hundred bucks to citizen scientists sitting in their backyards. There are so many devices sold online that measure particulate matter (PM) near your home during a wildfire or ground-level ozone on a hot-and-smoggy day that the folks at the South Coast Air Quality Management District began studying which ones work the ...

A new health center offering free and low-cost services to LGBTQ residents in Long Beach and the surrounding area marked its official grand opening Wednesday inside the St. Mary Medical Center campus. Funded in part by a $650,000 grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration, the 7,000-square-foot Long Beach Health Center, which will serve more than 5,000 people each year, is one of the newest neighborhood centers opened by the nonprofit AIDS Project Los Angeles, and APLA Health. The center offers medical, dental and behavioral health care services to the LGBTQ community, including disease prevention counseling, HIV testing, scre...

The Midtown Business Improvement District, an organization established about one year ago to improve business conditions in the Cambodia Town area of Long Beach, may have its first executive director on the job next month. Keeth McDonald, the executive director of Long Beach Transit who also chairs the business group’s board of directors, said a top officer may begin work as early as Sept. 8. Board members are collecting applications for prospective leaders through Sunday. The Long Beach City Council authorized the Midtown Business Improvement District in August 2015 and its territory en...

Results for the two-day vote should be finalized late Tuesday. Union workers interviewed Monday appeared pleased with the contract, especially the preservation of pension and health care benefits. “I’m satisfied. All we ask is that we be treated fairly,” said Celia Thompson, a 25-year floral supervisor at an Albertsons in Fullerton. Union leaders said ratification seemed imminent. “From what the reps were telling me, it looks like it will easily be accepted,” said Greg Conger, president of Local 324 in Buena Park. Negotiations with Vons, Albertsons and Ralphs have been ongoing since the union contract expired in March for 50,000 Southe Califoia grocery workers. The main sticking points have...

A downtown Long Beach restaurant and bar was allowed to reopen Saturday night after health inspectors found about 30 live cockroaches throughout the building last week. Cafe Sevilla at 140 Pine Ave., a Spanish restaurant and tapas bar, was closed Wednesday to Saturday, until staff could sanitize the facility. About 30 live cockroaches were discovered near the soda syrup rack, along the base covering the chefs line, the prep table, the floor area near the employee breakroom, the back storeroom and undeeath a freezer. Inspectors also observed about 10 fruit flies at the downstairs bar area. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Someone punched her grandmother in the face, broke her ribs and ruptured her spleen. Someone strangled her grandmother with such force that they crushed her larynx. Someone shot her grandmother in the back of the head. Then, in the opinion of Janelle Frese of La Palma, someone slipped out of her grandmother’s house into the sunset, leaving her grandfather to explain -- for the rest of his life -- that he indeed loved his wife and was not her killer. Frese can’t imagine a life without her grandmother’s unsolved murder -- which happened 45 years ago today -- hanging over everything she does. Theone Davis, who was 64, 5-foot-3, 132 pounds, died about two hours before she and her husband, Ted, w...