A rock music video from a group of Southe Califo ia women calls attention to their breasts – but not the way you might expect. It’s a parody created by Mothers You’d Like to Friend, a Facebook group that does a web sketch comedy series. Its goal is to spread acceptance of public breastfeeding. Their...

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 Antono...

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 a...

Rio de Janeiro >> Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana smashed a more than two-decade old world record en route to wi ing the Olympic Games 10,000-meter title and track and field’s first gold medal on an overcast Friday mo ing at Olympic Stadium. Ayana’s 29 minute, 17.45 victory was simply one of the greatest per...

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 H...

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...

A 26-year-old Long Beach man was charged Friday with stealing from a Long Beach church on two separate occasions within a week, the Los Angeles County District Atto ey’s Office a ounced. Trevor Fix, 26, has been charged with three felony counts, including two counts of burglary and one of identity t...

CLAREMONT — A small liberal arts college near Los Angeles is denouncing a Facebook post made by a black student who was seeking out a non-white roommate. The Claremont Independent reports Pitzer College student Kare Urena asked in the post that only people of color apply to live in her off-campus re...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Another Simone from suburban Houston made history in the Olympic pool Thursday night. Simone Manuel, pride of Sugar Land, Texas became the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic title in swimming, tying Canadian teenager Pe y Olesiak for the 100-meter freestyle g...

SAN FERNANDO >> A Long Beach man convicted of murdering a Cal State Northridge student from Saudi Arabia who had placed an online advertisement about a car he was trying to sell is scheduled to be sentenced this mo ing. Agustin Rosendo Fe andez, now 30, was convicted June 9 of first-degree murder fo...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Michael Phelps held up four fingers as the wake of his Olympic Games 200-meter individual medley victory washed up against him on a historic night at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. That’s four, as in four gold medals — four and counting — for Phelps at these Games. Four as in four c...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Marcus Fraser shot a 63, Justin Rose had a hole-in-one and Matt Kuchar saw a rat large enough to ride in a derby - soapbox or Kentucky. Golf made its historic retu to the Olympics on Thursday, while the capybara made its celebrated Games debut. Capybaras are rodents that can reach ...

What to watch: After wi ing his 22nd Olympic gold medal, Michael Phelps will look to ea his fourth consecutive gold medal in the 100 meter butterfly finals. He will also compete in the 50 meter freestyle event. Katie Ledecky will defend her title in the 800 meter freestyle event, while Missy Frankli...

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia plans to present awards on Friday to 50 people working in the realms of both small and big business. Calling Friday’s event the inaugural “Mayor’s Long Beach Business Awards,” the ceremony may be considered something of a spinoff of the Go Long Beach Awards, which have...

Using shovels, power tools and a cadaver-sniffing dog, coroner’s investigators dug up the front yard of a Carson rental home Thursday in search of a body reportedly buried there. The search in the 21600 block of South Prospect Avenue tu ed up nothing through midafte oon, and investigators kept mum a...

A fully packed red, white, and blue Team USA bag inside a Signal Hill apartment Thursday mo ing sat ready to be picked up and carried to the airport. It belonged to 11-year-old Gabe Tyler, the younger brother of Long Beach native and Oympian Ariana Washington. Thanks to the generosity of the Long Be...

It’s a once-a-year light show expected to deliver its most spectacular visual explosion in years. This summer’s edition of the Perseid meteor shower is due to peak Thursday evening and last through early Friday mo ing and make a reprise the following night. Experts say 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. is the best v...

A 19-year-old man accused of stabbing a woman and nearly gouging a man’s eye out remains at large today after he fled a Long Beach courthouse. Police are asking for the public’s help in locating Abel Munguia, who police said is to be considered “very dangerous.” Munguia, who had been free on bail, a...

A homicide investigation led detectives today to a Carson home, which was being searched to determine if a body was buried at the location. Homicide detectives went to the 21600 block of Prospect Avenue about 7:45 a.m., according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Coroner’s perso el were assisting...

Four convicted killers drew 16 year-to-life prison terms Wednesday for the 2012 Jurupa Valley-to-Long Beach slaying of a man who was shot in the head, beaten with a sledgehammer and strangled. But the motive for the brutal murder of 24-year-old Orange resident Hector Jauregui Campos remains a myster...