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NORFOLK, Va. >> Hermine continued Monday to twist hundreds of miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean and was expected to keep swimmers and surfers out of beach waters because of its dangerous waves and rip currents on the last day of the long holiday weekend. “We’re not looking at a landfall,” said Deis Feltgen of the National Hurricane Center on Sunday, adding Hermine is just sitting and pushing the water up along the coast making storm surge a great conce. It was expected to stall over the water before weakening again. Goveors all along the Easte Seaboard aounced emergency preparations. A tropical storm waing was in effect from New York’s Long Island to Massachusetts. Tropical storm-...

LOS ANGELES >> The music manager who helped introduce N.W.A to the masses has died. Jerry Heller was 75 years old. Heller’s cousin, Gary Ballen, says Heller died Friday night at a hospital in Thousand Oaks after suffering a heart attack while driving earlier in the day. Heller co-founded Ruthless Records with Eazy-E, which released N.W.A’s seminal album “Straight Outta Compton” in 1988, launching the West Coast gangsta rap movement. Ruthless was also behind such artists as J.J. Fad, Michel’le and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Actor Paul Giamatti played the veteran music manager in last year’s hit film “Straight Outta Compton.” Heller sued the film’s producers for defamation after its release,...

DEKLE BEACH, Fla. >> Tropical Storm Hermine was intensifying Saturday as it moved slowly up the Atlantic Coast with heavy rains, wind and storm surges making a mess of the holiday. Hermine (her-MEEN) already caused 2 deaths, damaged homes and businesses and left hundreds of thousands without electricity from Florida to Virginia. “This is not a beach weekend for anyone in the Mid-Atlantic to the northeast,” said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Hermine was centered 90 miles east of Duck, North Carolina, with top sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph), moving east at 10 mph (17 kph). Tropical Storm Waings were in effect as fa...

FlyAway airport shuttle service between LAX and Santa Monica will be discontinued immediately after Labor Day weekend. The Santa Monica service will stop ruing at midnight on Tuesday. Airport commissioners voted earlier this summer to end service for the Santa Monica route due to low ridership, according to Los Angeles World Airports spokesman Charles Paunzio. FlyAway service will still operate out of Westwood, Long Beach, Hollywood, Union Station, Van Nuys and the Orange Line’s Woodley Station. FlyAway shuttle schedules are available at http://www.lawa.org/FlyAway/. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

EXPOSITION PARK >> The 13th aual FYF Fest got started this year under cool temperatures as thousands of music fans came to Exposition Park to see more than 30 bands perform on several stages during day one of the festival. Saturday’s headliner was Long Beach native Kendrick Lamar who was joined on the eclectic bill by fellow hip hop artist Vince Staples and the psychedelic Australian band Tame Impala. • Photos: Inside day one of FYF Fest 2016 The festival, which started in 2004 as a cluster of punk-rock-oriented shows at various venues in Echo Park, has grown into one of the most popular area music events and the Saturday crowd seemed to be into the mix of well-known acts and up-and-co...

Kathy Creighton was 16 when she landed what was her first summer job: squeezing oranges and working the cash register at the Orange Julius in San Pedro’s bustling Ports O’ Call Village. “We had these very ugly brown and yellow, itchy polyester uniforms we had to wear,” Creighton said. “We went home sticky and stinky.” But there were perks. The popular juice-and-burger spot was situated in a building constructed over the water, with wall-size windows on three sides. And the tourist helicopter pad was right next door. “We used to trade hamburgers for (free) helicopter rides,” she said. And, no, the boss never knew. The year was 1980. And Creighton, who moved out of state when her husband got ...

A 21-year-old Reno woman spending her first day in Los Angeles plunged to her death Friday from a cliff at Point Fermin in San Pedro, police said. The accident occurred about 2:15 p.m. in the 500 block of West Paseo del Mar. The woman, who had just moved to Califoia from Nevada, asked her new roommate to take her to the beach. At Point Fermin, she climbed a 4-foot wall at the park’s edge to get a better view of the ocean, Los Angeles police Sgt. Bradley Hea said. Somehow, she slipped and fell to her death about 2:15 p.m. She landed on rocks below. “It was completely accidental,” Hea said. Coroner’s investigators and Los Angeles police responded. The woman’s name was not immediately released...

Staff reports A 19-year-old San Pedro man charged with stabbing a woman and nearly gouging a man’s eye out remained missing Friday, two days after he escaped from the Long Beach courthouse. Abel Munguia was out on bail when he appeared Wednesday in the Goveor George Deukmejian Courthouse on Magnolia Avenue. He was scheduled for arraignment on two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem. Munguia, who was out on bail, stepped out to use the bathroom and never retued. He cut off his electronic monitoring ankle device, which last registered at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson. Munguia was arrested Dec. 8 after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the back. He was arrested again o...

Police on Tuesday said they arrested a Long Beach man suspected of stabbing another man to death outside a Santa Ana convenience store. Logan James Cuingham, 27, was arrested by Long Beach police in the stabbing of 40-year-old Jason Paul Torres of Costa Mesa, said Santa Ana police. Torres was stabbed about 9:10 p.m. Sunday near a Circle K at 710 E Dyer Rd. in Santa Ana and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. During the course of their investigation Santa Ana police determined Cuingham was suspected of killing Torres, police said. Police have not disclosed a possible motive, but said the victim and suspect were acquainted. On Monday, Long Beach police responded to a domestic disturbance...

WILMINGTON, N.C. >> Donald Trump said Tuesday that Second Amendment advocates might find a way to stop Hillary Clinton from rolling back gun rights if she’s elected, setting off a political firestorm as Democrats quickly accused him of encouraging violence against his opponent. Speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, the Republican nominee said incorrectly his general election opponent wants to “abolish, essentially, the Second Amendment.” He continued: “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” Trump did not elaborate on his meaning. But within minutes, Clinton’s campaign and ...

A man and woman found dead at the bottom of a San Pedro cliff were identified Monday as residents of Wilmington. Los Angeles County coroner’s officials identified the pair as Jacqueline Beatriz Murcia, 23, and Silvestre Garcia, 24. They were found dead Sunday moing on the rocky beach near South Parker Street and West Paseo del Mar in the White Point area. The Los Angeles Police Department said the deaths are believed to be accidental but the circumstances remain unclear and an investigation is ongoing. Coroner’s officials have not determined the cause or time of death. “Right now, we don’t have much more as it only happened (Sunday),” said LAPD Sgt. Bradley Hea, ...

SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS >> Some 4,700 people have been told to evacuate as the Pilot fire flared Monday afteoon in the San Beardino Mountains. The fire, which started Sunday between Silverwood Lake and Lake Arrowhead, is buing in two directions, said Capt. Liz Brown, a Cal Fire spokeswoman: north toward Hesperia, and northeast toward a mountain area known as the Piacles. • Live Coverage: What we know about the Pilot fire so far It had bued 4,500 acres by Monday moing and was 5 percent contained; no new numbers have been released since then, but the fire has cle...

A man and woman found dead at the bottom of a San Pedro cliff were identified Monday as residents of Wilmington. Los Angeles County coroner’s officials identified the pair as Jacqueline Beatriz Murcia, 23, and Silvestre Garcia, 24. They were found dead Sunday moing off South Parker Street and West Paseo del Mar in the White Point area. The Los Angeles Police Department said the deaths are believed to be accidental but the circumstances remain unclear and an investigation is ongoing. Coronor’s officials have not determined the cause or time of death. “Right now, we don’t have much more as it only happened yesterday,” said LAPD Sgt. Bradley Hea, watch commander at the Harbor Division station....

A wildfire that ignited in the San Beardino Mountains on Sunday continued to bu thousands of acres Monday moing. The 4,500-acre Pilot fire ignited just after noon east of Highway 138 and south of Hesperia. • PHOTOS: Fight against Pilot fire continues on Day 2 as acreage grows to 4,500 • PHOTOS: 400 firefighters battle Pilot fire on Day 1 in San Beardino Mountains • VIDEO: Pilot fire smolders in a bu area in Summit Valley right off Highway 173 • VIDEO: A bulldozer moves after cutting fire breaks all night in Pilot fire fight • VIDEO: Hand crews hit Pilot fire hotspots Firefighters estimated the fire covered about 1,500 acres Sunday evening. The dramatic jump, they say, could be due to inaccu...

SAN PEDRO >> The bodies of a woman and a man were found Sunday at the base of a cliff in San Pedro. Police were dispatched to the scene at 10:16 a.m. on a report of a citizen discovering two bodies near the area of South Parker Street and West Paseo Del Mar, according to a police office at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Harbor Station. Homicide detectives were called to the scene, she said. Firefighters and paramedics were dispatched at 10:15 a.m. to 907 W. Paseo Del Mar, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

The recent deaths of three people at the HARD Summer Music Festival in Fontana reignited a push by San Beardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford to ban raves at the San Manual Amphitheater in Devore. Officials at Auto Club Speedway, in unincorporated Fontana, and Live Nation have remained silent since the deaths of u2009Derek Lee, 22, of San Francisco, Alyssa Dominguez, 21, of San Diego and Roxae Ngo, 22, of Chino Hills, following last weekend’s event. Their causes of death remain under investigation and appear unrelated, authorities said. In a statement released Friday, Rutherford said that while the causes of death have yet to be determined, it is common knowledge that many young peopl...

Both good news and bad news could await if San Pedro’s historic Waer Grand Theatre goes big time with a professional operator now being sought by the city of Los Angeles, which owns the venue. City Councilman Joe Buscaino’s motion to hand the operation over to someone who could attract “A-list talent” and produce sold-out shows moved forward Friday, setting the stage for what could be big changes for the 1930s movie palace at 478 W. Sixth St. Uncertainty remains over how an outside operator might impact the theater’s future, especially in how it serves the immediate community. The good The theater is in serious need of improvements that the city says will cost $3.5 million, though some beli...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police say they have jailed a Moroccan Olympic boxer on allegations he sexually assaulted two Brazilian women. In a statement, police say they arrested boxer Hassan Saada on Friday for possible assaults on two Brazilian women who worked as waitresses in the Olympic Village. According to the statement, the attacks happened on Wednesday. No other details were given. Police say Saada will be jailed for a period of 15 days while they conduct a rape investigation. Under Brazilian law, suspects can be held for a long period of time while a case is examined. He was due to compete Saturday. A light heavyweight boxer, he was set to fight Mehmet Nadir of Turkey in the preli...

BONITA, Calif. — Jonathan De Guzman, a San Diego police officer who survived a stabbing 13 years ago and shot at a gun-wielding man three years ago, will be buried Friday after being fatally shot in the driver’s seat of his patrol car after his partner approached a man on the street. The burial will follow the second memorial service in two days for the decorated officer, a 16-year veteran of the force who worked on an anti-gang unit. Gov. Jerry Brown plaed to attend the memorial at Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, which will follow a procession of law enforcement vehicles miles away at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium and include aircraft, bagpipes and a 21-gun salute. A smaller c...

PHOENIX — Storms hit areas of the Southwest again on Wednesday, but with less intensity than a day earlier when monsoon rains swamped the desert region, stranding drivers, flooding streets and prompting water rescues. Forecasters waed of the potential of more flooding in six states — Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Califoia, particularly in washes and streams. Rain fell in the Four Coers region but there were no reports of flooding or mudslides. More intense monsoon rain was expected in that area through Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Flood watches in effect covered large swaths of desert and forests and cities such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, Tucson and Albuq...