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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...

The mother of Syed Rizwan Farook has denied in a court document that she had any knowledge and did not participate in the San Beardino Dec. 2 terrorist attack by Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik that killed 14 people and wounded 22. Neither Rafia Farook nor her daughter Saira Khan took took part “in any way with the tragic attack,” the court document said. The statement was included in a claim of interest filed Wednesday in federal court for the $280,756.17 in life insurance benefits left behind by Syed Farook, who died with Malik in a shootout with law enforcement a few hours after the deadly, Islamic State-inspired attack. The disputed money has not been paid out. It is in the custody of th...

ONTARIO >> The once-vacant and quiet Meredith property between Vineyard and Archibald avenues began bustling with commercial activity Monday as officials dedicated QVC’s first West Coast distribution center with an opening ceremony. The 1-million-square-foot QVC warehouse was filled with a sea of empty shelving racks Monday, but trucks bringing inventory had arrived and officials expected to begin shipping product out from Ontario this week. They expect to ramp up the operation by the holiday shopping season. The new facility should shrink delivery times up to four days, Jim Reid, vice president of customer logistics, said. “We want to speed that process up for our West Coast customer...

A Labor Day tradition, this year’s Conquer the Bridge Race over the Vincent Thomas Bridge will get a cadenced sound track this year as hundreds of sailors in town for LA Fleet Week join the challenge. “They’ll run as part of teams and formations, they’re supposed to be in cadence,” said Michael-Patrick Hogue, producer of the aual Labor Day race now in its eighth year. Also participating Monday along with the Navy will be members of the Coast Guard and Marine Corps. Online registration ($50 entry fee) remains open until Thursday night at www.active.com and, after that, will be available through Road Ruer Sports, 25359 Crenshaw Blvd. (across from Mimi’s Cafe) Torrance, (310-326-8530, Ext. 2) a...

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...

In Long Beach, school isn’t cool. That’s generally speaking. It’s cool at about 40 percent of the 87 school buildings in the Long Beach Unified School District that are lucky, or mode, enough to have air-conditioned classrooms. It’s no sweat for students at, say, Chavez Elementary School, built in 2002, or Powell K-8 School, built in 2000, or Signal Hill’s Nelson Middle School built four years ago, or McBride High School, built in 2013. But when students retu to class Wednesday at schools built during the two biggest boom eras in Long Beach history — 27 schools were constructed in the two years following the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake, and 25 opened between 1950 and 1959 to serve the then-ne...

For many people heading to the 13th aual FYF Fest at Exposition Park, the train was the way to go. The Metro Expo trains coming from Santa Monica were ruing about five minutes apart as they headed to the concert today. And that was a nice surprise for Westside residents like Emily Diaz and Tony Lopez, who were coming from Palms. • Related: This is the best way to get to FYF Fest They missed one train as they bought their one way tickets but were surprised by how quickly another arrived shortly “That’s pretty awesome that they’re coming this fast, that’s probably why they’re not packed,” she said as she boarded the train shortly after an aouncement from Metro over the speakers at the station...

Califoia legalizing recreational marijuana could grow the industry there to $6.5u2009billion in 2020 — and also serve as a “watershed moment” for the industry in and outside the United States, according to a report released Tuesday. Market research firms ArcView and Newu2009Frontier delved into Califoia’s massive and uniquely complicated caabis industry to project its direction and what may be in store if voters pass Propositionu200964 in November. If the Adult Use of Marijuanau2009Act succeeds and is implemented by 2018, Califoia’s legal marijuana sales likely will climb by $1.6u2009billion within the first year, according to the ArcView and Newu2009Frontier market report. That would put t...

Los Angeles, San Feando Valley and Santa Monica BevMo: Beer and wine tasting, 4-7 p.m. Friday. Cost $5. 7100 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood,310-882-6971; 3212 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica,310-453-5600; 10984 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles,310-473-9600; 330 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles,310-855-0169; 2533 PCH, Suite A, Torrance, 310-257-0034; 1775 N. Victory Place, Burbank, 818-847-2175. www.bevmo.com Colorado Wine Co.: Wine tasting, 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Four wines. Cost $12. 2305 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles.323-478-1985. www.cowineco.com Rosso Wine Shop: Wine tasting, 5-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Three wines. Cost $10. 3459 1⁄2 N. Verdugo Road, Glendale. 818-330-9130.www.rossowineshop....

Uber to use self-driving cars to haul people in next few weeks Uber and Volvo aounced a $300 million deal for Volvo to provide SUVs to Uber for autonomous vehicle research. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) By Associated Press DETROIT — Ride-hailing service Uber says it will start hauling passengers with self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh in next several weeks. The company says the autonomous Ford Fusions will have human backup drivers but will transport passengers just like normal Uber vehicles. Uber has a self-driving research lab in Pittsburgh and is working on autonomous technology. Also Thursday, Uber and Volvo aounced a $300 million deal for Volvo to provide S...

Kanye West to open 21 ‘Pablo’ pop-up stores worldwide, and LA is getting one Kanye West aounced on Twitter that he will open 21 temporary “Pablo” stores worldwide on the weekend of Aug. 20 in cities that include Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West fans can buy a taste of “The Life of Pablo” this weekend following the rapper-tued-fashion mogul’s aouncement of 21 pop-up stores worldwide that will be open just this weekend. West tweeted a map with red dots indicating the stores’ locations Wednesday night. Fourteen of the stores will be in major cities in the U.S. The pop-up store locations include Los Angeles and San Francisco, accord...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> A Japanese joualist asked American hurdlers Briaa Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin how they were going to celebrate their historic sweep of the Olympic Games 100-meter hurdles medals, the one and only 1-2-3 of the Rio Games so far. Was there going to be a girls’ night out? the reporter asked the trio as a late Wednesday night became an early Thursday moing in Rio. “Well every night we’re together is girls’ night out,” Castlin said. Such was the case at the Olympic Stadium Wednesday, the U.S. hurdlers putting on yet another exhibition of a dominance unmatched in any single event by another nation in women’s track and field. Rollins, the 2013 world champion, was in c...

Firefighters battling the fast-growing fire in the Cajon Pass faced a powder keg created by mountainous terrain, excessive dry vegetation and extreme weather conditions, experts said Wednesday. In just over a day, the Blue Cut fire charred dozens of buildings, mostly single-story family houses, and forced the evacuation of 82,000 residents from 34,500 homes. From the time the fire was reported at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday until 10 that night, the wildfire had grown to 18,000 acres. That day, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency, in part citing the blaze’s rapid expansion. By 7 p.m. Wednesday, the fire had consumed 25,626 acres, with 4 percent containment, said a representative for the Sa...

The 15 Freeway, the main artery in and out of the High Desert, remains closed Wednesday moing as firefighters battled the out-of-control Blue Cut fire in the Cajon Pass oveight. The massive wind-driven wildfire devoured 30,000u2009acres and multiple homes and buildings by Wednesday moing, forcing more than 80,000 people to evacuate their homes. No portion of the perimeter has containment lines. • Photos: The Blue Cut fire bus 30,000 acres and is still out of control The mandatory evacuation area includes Phelan/Piñon Hills south of Phelan Road from Sheep Creek Road to Green Road, including the Desert Front Road area, the San Beardino Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday moing. • Live updates...

Authorities arrested six men, seized 1,000 ecstasy pills and confiscated a gun and ammunition during a probation sweep targeted at local gang members and other violent convicts in Long Beach, police said. According to a post on the Long Beach Police Department’s Facebook page, the operation consisted of a team from the LBPD, the L.A. County Probation Department and Homeland Security Investigations contacting probationers in the city to make sure they were abiding by the terms of their release. The team contacted 18 people on Aug. 11 and arrested six of them on suspicion of violating their parole, according to Long Beach police. Some of the alleged probation violations included being a felon...

LOS ANGELES >> A multi-agency operation against human trafficking in Los Angeles County resulted in 286 arrests, including 153 for prostitution, and the rescues of eight minors and two adults, the Los Angeles Police Department reported today. Operation Summer Rescue focused on the rescue and recovery of commercially sexually exploited children. It involved the LAPD’s Inteet Crimes Against Children and geographic vice units, the Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force, FBI Iocence Lost Task Force, Los Angeles County District Attoey’s Office and Los Angeles County Probation Department. The recovered minors were placed in protective custody and have received assistance from the...

KNBC/4 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Track and field (Men’s 3,000 steeplechase; decathlon); Equestrian (team jumping - gold medal) 1-3 p.m. Men’s volleyball: U.S. vs. Poland (quarterfinal) 3-5 p.m. Canoe/kayak (sprint qualifying); Women’s water polo (semifinal); Gymastics (exhibition gala) 8 p.m.-midnight Track and field (Women’s long jump; women’s 200; women’s 100 hurdles; men’s 200 semis; decathlon); Women’s diving (platform qualifying); Women’s beach volleyball (gold medal) 12:35-1:35 a.m. Women’s beach volleyball (medal round) 1:35-4:30 a.m. Primetime encore NBCSN 5-9 a.m. Canoe/kayak (sprint qualifying); Track and field (men’s 3,000 steeplechase; decathlon) 9-11 a.m. Men’s soccer: Brazil vs. Honduras...

Ellyn Mogford found the bus. It was a 1980s school bus repurposed into a rolling, blue-and-gold declaration of devotion to the St. Louis Rams, complete with hand-painted logos, 10 years worth of season parking permits tacked above the steering wheel and more than a dozen season schedules plastered above the ier windshield. • VIDEO: Grant Mogford takes the Rams fan bus for a spin After the family bought season tickets for the Rams’ retu to Los Angeles, Ellyn was looking for tailgating gear to give to her husband, Grant, shortly before Father’s Day. When she found the ad from a “disgruntled” St. Louis fan who wanted to unload the bus, she showed it to Grant as a passing oddity. “Of course, I ...

BRASILIA, Brazil >> The three-time defending champion U.S. women’s national team will miss the Olympic final for the first time after being ousted by Sweden on penalties following a 1-1 draw in the quarterfinals on Friday. Tied after three rounds in the shootout, Sweden captain Caroline Seger beat Hope Solo and Christen Press’ attempt against Hedvig Lindhal went over the net. With the next kick, Lisa Dahlkvist beat an outstretched Solo for the win. As Sweden celebrated, U.S. captain Carli Lloyd crouched on the field at Mane Garrincha Stadium. It was the first time that an Olympic women’s match had gone to penalties. It was the earliest the United States had ever been eliminated from t...