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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...

Small quake hits Califoia’s Central Coast By City News Service PASADENA — A small, exceedingly shallow earthquake rattled part of Califoia’s Central Coast today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The magnitude-3 quake struck at 8:45 a.m. at a depth of zero miles, its epicenter 10 miles northwest of Goleta and 8 miles southeast of Santa Ynez, according to a computer-generated report from the USGS. Advertisement Digital & Driveway Delivery - 50% Off Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

MUNICH — Munich police waed people to stay inside and avoid public places Friday as they hunted for the shooter or shooters who opened fire at a shopping mall, killing six people and wounding others in a rampage they described as suspected terrorism. “At the moment no culprit has been arrested,” police in the Bavarian capital said on social media. “The search is taking place at high speed.” • PHOTOS: 6 killed in Munich mall shooting, manhunt underway Germany’s elite GSG9 anti-terror police, as well as federal police, were called in to help. Witnesses reported seeing three men with firearms near the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall. Munich police spokesman Marcus Martins told The Associated Pres...

MUNICH — Munich police waed people to avoid public places Friday as they hunted for the shooter or shooters who opened fire at a shopping mall, killing six people and wounding others in a rampage described as “suspected terrorism,” police and media reports said. “At the moment no culprit has been arrested,” police in the Bavarian capital said on social media. “The search is taking place at high speed.” The city of Munich sent a smartphone alert telling people to stay indoors and German rail company Deutsche Bahn stopped train traffic to Munich’s main station. Police said witnesses reported seeing three people with firearms near the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall. Munich police spokeswoman Cla...

Considering Saul “Canelo” Alvarez took so much heat for defending his middleweight title against a welterweight - Amir Khan - in May, it was surprising to hear Friday moing that middleweight champion Geady Golovkin will now do the same. Golovkin will defend his three belts against Kell Brook, who holds one of the welterweight titles, on Sept. 10 at O2 Arena in Brook’s native England (on HBO). Golvokin is trained by West Covina native Abel Sanchez. He was asked via telephone why Golovkin will be fighting a welterweight. “Well, if you recall, the first welterweight in our time that did that was Ray Leonard and he beat the middleweight (Marvin Hagler), so he (Brook) is willing to do what other...

Nearly six months after the NFL bypassed Carson’s bid for a stadium, city officials are moving forward with plans for an outlet shopping center on the former landfill site once touted as the future home of the Raiders and Chargers. The City Council voted 5-0 Tuesday night to begin exclusive negotiations with Macerich Real Estate Co. to develop a portion of the 157-acre site alongside the 405 Freeway. This is the second time in four years the city has entered into an agreement for a freeway-facing outlet mall on the property that stretches from Del Amo to Avalon boulevards. The Santa Monica company wants to erect a 500,000-square-foot outlet center with 150 high-end stores that would take up...

You can’t walk far into Carson’s SouthBay Pavilion without seeing the signs of change. Construction workers behind temporary facades are readying revamped Vitamin World, Wingstop and Mrs. Fields stores while shoppers peruse newly opened tenants with nationwide popularity: Sephora cosmetics, Payless Super Store, Chuck E. Cheese’s, Kay Jewelers and others. It’s part of a $28 million renovation at the 1970s-era, 73-acre complex best known to greater Los Angeles as home to a regional Ikea off the 405 Freeway on Avalon Boulevard. Other anchor tenants include Sears, JCPeey, Target and a 13-screen Cinemark movie theater that opened last year. The theater increased foot traffic into the mall by 25 p...

Small drones cleared for commercial use under new FAA rules A hexacopter drone is flown during a drone demonstration at a farm and winery on potential use for board members of the National Co Growers, Thursday, June 11, 2015 in Cordova, Md. Routine commercial use of small drones got a green light from the Obama administration June 21, 2016, after years of struggling to write regulations that would both protect public safety and unleash the economic potential and societal benefits of the new technology. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) By JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has cleared the way for routine commercial use of small drones. The decision...

ATHENS — A woman killed herself and a small child in an SUV fire, authorities said today. The incident occurred Thursday about 9:45 p.m. in the 300 block of West 124th Street, just east of the Harbor (110) Freeway, Deputy Mike Barraza of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told City News Service. The initial reports came in as a car fire at Athens Park, with Los Angeles County firefighters dousing the blaze and discovering the two victims, according to the LASD. Witnesses told investigators that an adult woman and a child between 3 and 4 were standing near the SUV as it bued, and the woman kept getting in and out of the flaming vehicle, the LASD said. The woman then placed the child...