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BIG BEAR LAKE >> A magnitude-3.4 earthquake was reported Tuesday moing in the Big Bear area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The shaker was reported at 7:25 a.m., almost 20 miles north northeast of the mountain community. There were no reports of damage as of 7:30 a.m. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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...

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...

AMATRICE, Italy — A strong earthquake in central Italy reduced three towns to rubble as people slept early Wednesday, killing at least 73 people and injuring hundreds more as rescue crews raced to dig out survivors with bulldozers and their bare hands. • PHOTOS: Devastation after earthquake strikes Italy The toll was likely to rise as crews reached homes in more remote hamlets where the scenes were apocalyptic “like Dante’s Infeo,” according to one witness. Complicating matters was that the area is a popular vacation spot in summer, with populations swelling, making the number of people in the area at the time difficult to estimate. “The town isn’t here anymore,” said Sergio Pirozzi, the ma...

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 ...

AMATRICE, ITALY >> A strong earthquake rocked central Italy early Wednesday, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. At least 11 people were reported dead in two hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig out survivors from the rubble, but the toll was expected to rise as crews reached homes in harder-to-reach hamlets. “The town isn’t here anymore,” Amatrice mayor Sergio Pirozzi said. The magnitude 6 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including the capital Rome where residents felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. The temblor was felt from the Lazio region into Umbria and Le Marche on the Adriatic coast. The hardest-hit...

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...

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...

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...

Kristin Armstrong had just put together another golden effort in an Olympic time trial, this time slicing through driving wind and rain, when her 5-year-old son approached her at the finish. “Mama,” Lucas asked, “why are you crying? You won!” Once again. The American cyclist made it three consecutive gold medals on Wednesday, the ageless wonder conquering a brutal course at the Rio Games. Her time of 44 minutes, 26.42 seconds topped reigning bronze medalist Olga Zabelinskaya of Russia by the slimmest of margins: 5.55 seconds. As for the tears, well, “that’s a great question from a 5-year-old,” Armstrong said with her now-familiar grin. “That’s what we do, we cry when we’re happy. “I’m going...

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...

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...