SAN DIEGO (AP) — Terry Petrovich asked her oncologist point blank: “Am I going to count on you to help me achieve a good death?” To her relief, he told her he would have no problem prescribing a lethal dose of drugs under Califo ia’s new law allowing such prescriptions for the terminally ill. But ma...

WASHINGTON >> U.S. employers drastically slowed their hiring in May, adding just 38,000, the fewest in more than 5 years and a sign of conce after the economy barely grew in the first three months of the year. At the same time, the unemployment rate tumbled to 4.7 percent from 5 percent, the Labor D...

LOS ANGELES - The summer season’s first heat wave went into its third day today, with temperatures slated to reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit in inland Orange County and L.A. County’s San Fe ando and Santa Clarita valleys, but a cooling trend is expected starting Sunday. “The combination of hot temperat...

SANTA ANITA LEADERS Through Thursday JOCKEYS / WINS Rafael Bejarano / 19 Flavien Prat / 18 Tyler Baze / 17 Edwin Maldonado / 15 Santiago Gonzalez / 11 Joe Talamo / 11 TRAINERS / WINS Philip D’Amato / 14 Jerry Hollendorfer / 8 Mike Puype / 6 John Sadler / 6 Three tied / 5 STAKES SCHEDULE SANTA ANITA ...

You have to wonder if trainer John Sadler grabbed a chair, sat down in Stellar Wind’s stall and had a little chat with his star 4-year-old filly about the plans they had for the 2015 Eclipse Award wi er. Not only is she scheduled to make her 2016 debut in a Grade I race, the $400,000 Vanity Mile at ...

Tiffany Nguyen’s nursing class at UCLA on Thursday mo ing spent part of the session talking about the murder-suicide that left a professor and a former graduate student dead the day before. After class, Nguyen realized the classroom where that discussion took place likely could be locked only with a...

The man who gu ed down his wife, then UCLA Professor William Klug before taking his own life, pla ed a chilling killing spree that began thousands of miles away from the Westwood campus where he once studied. Little is known of Mainak Sarkar, a 38-year-old man who had immigrated from India, studied ...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge’s decision to dismiss charges against a Long Beach man, arrested during a sting that was found to discriminate against gay men, will stand unchallenged after an a ouncement this week that City Prosecutor Doug Haubert would not appeal the ruling. But court ac...

Mainak Sarkar, who graduated from UCLA in 2013, had created a “kill list,” packed his car with weapons and headed out to Califo ia from Mi esota, to kill William S. Klug, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck said during a Thursday mo ing news confer...

Laurie Gray developed her love of baking as a small child; she still owns a Little Chef toy oven she received as a gift when she was about 4 years old. In fact, the artifact from her childhood sits atop the customer counter at The Pie Bar, which is Gray’s current business venture following a career ...

A brand of penicillin used to treat pregnant women infected with or exposed to syphilis is in short supply across Los Angeles County and nationwide, and physicians were urged Thursday to maintain reserves. Called Bicillin L-A, the drug is made by Pfizer, which has reported a manufacturing delay of t...

The newspaper chain that publishes the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune a ounced Thursday that it is renaming itself tronc Inc., effective June 20. Meanwhile, a San Diego-based investor, Capital Structures Realty Advisors, has filed a lawsuit against Tribune for continuing to reject pro...

WEST COVINA >> Coroner’s officials have identified a Lakewood man who died in a fiery multi-car freeway wreck in West Covina last week along with a South Pasadena man described as one of Taiwan’s most wanted fugitives, authorities said. Gregory Donald Smith, 69, died at the scene of the crash, which...

A prestigious inte ational equestrian event will make Long Beach its American home this fall. The Longines Masters of Los Angeles, part of the three-stop Grand Slam of Indoor Show Jumping, is moving 20 miles south to the Long Beach Arena and convention center, organizers a ounced this week. More tha...

Firefighters extinguished a moving truck that caught on fire near parking lots to the rear of the Long Beach Convention Center Thursday mo ing. Fire Engine 2 was dispatched to the scene at 11:52 a.m. at South Linden Avenue and East Seaside Way, arriving at 11:57 a.m., said Jake Heflin, a department ...

Laurie Gray developed her love of baking as a small child; she still owns a Little Chef toy oven she received as a gift when she was about 4 years old. In fact, the artifact from her childhood sits atop the customer counter at The Pie Bar, which is Gray’s current business venture following a career ...

Improving water conditions in the northe part of the state due to this year’s El Niño rains will mean loosening water restrictions in Long Beach. The Water Department Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to move Long Beach to a Stage 1 water shortage — downgraded from the Stage 2 water shortage tha...

We’ve got a busy weekend pla ed with activities that will prevent us from accidentally going to Saturday’s ShipKicker Country Music Festival at the Queen Mary Events Park. We’ve got a high tolerance for country music, but it’s not extraordinarily high, and it slams into a wall when it comes to sweet...

AVALON – A search was underway for a 22-year-old man who went missing after a rogue wave swept him off a 15-foot skiff off Catalina Island this mo ing. Two boaters, neither wearing a life jacket, were knocked off the watercraft near China Point. One of them managed to get back onto the skiff and con...

When: 1-11 p.m. June 4. Where: Queen Mary Waterfront Events Park, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach. Tickets: $45-$55. Information: 800-437-2943, www.queenmary.com. The Queen is going country again this weekend with the ShipKicker Country Music Festival. The second a ual event retu s to the Queen Mary...