UCLA on lockdown as authorities investigate possible shooting at engineering building By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES >> Police are responding to a report of a possible shooter at the University of Califo ia, Los Angeles. Campus media relations officer Rebecca Kendall says police are on scene We...

LOS ANGELES — Hot and dry conditions expected to last through Saturday will descend on the Southland starting today, creating an elevated fire danger and a risk of heat-related illness, forecasters said. Weak high pressure aloft over northe Califo ia will slide into the state’s southe half today, th...

Los Angeles County’s long slog back to an economic recovery may finally be over. It took until last year for the region to recover all of the jobs that were lost during the 2007 recession. Now, the economy is now showing signs that the county may be off and ru ing again. L.A. County is expected to a...

OXNARD — The Rams opened the first of their six voluntary organized training activities (OTAs) on Tuesday with one notable, albeit expected, absence. Quarterback Nick Foles, who lost his job last season to Case Keenum and whose job status grew even more tenuous with the addition of Jared Goff, the f...

INDUSTRY — Three burglary suspects who fled from deputies were behind bars today and facing homicide charges after they were involved in a collision that claimed the life of a 66-year-old driver in Industry, authorities said. The crash at the intersection of Gale Avenue and Johnson Drive was reporte...

Los Angeles County is expected to add 346,000 jobs between 2015 and 2020 across a broad range of industries, according to a report released today. The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.’s a ual “People, Industries and Jobs” report shows that 123,000 of those jobs will be in the city of Lo...

Two candidates ru ing to take Don Knabe’s place on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors affirmed their support for county gove ment’s role as a social service provider during a Tuesday night debate in Long Beach. “At the heart of what L.A. County is, we’re a safety net. We are there for folks...

Edmond Haronian always wanted to lea to fly, but he put his dream on hold because his wife, Firoozeh, had an uneasy feeling about him taking to the skies, especially with children at home. So when the Woodland Hills couple separated after more than two decades together last year — their sons now you...

Local air quality regulators have extended to June 10 the deadline for public comment on a report detailing the anticipated environmental and health impacts of Tesoro Corp.’s pla ed integration of its two South Bay plants into the West Coast’s largest oil refinery. The extension came after community...

It’s a big question sitting out there: Who needs to win Califo ia more — Be ie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? For Sanders, the answer is simple. His narrow, longer-than-long odds to seize the Democratic presidential nomination will require a sizable chunk of the state’s 475 delegates to defeat Clinton....

It’s a big question sitting out there: Who needs to win Califo ia more — Be ie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? For Sanders, the answer is simple. His narrow, longer-than-long odds to seize the Democratic presidential nomination will require a sizable chunk of the state’s 475 delegates to defeat Clinton....

The swimmer had bite marks in a half circle, teeth marks from her upper right shoulder in the back, down to her pelvis in front and to the other side of her buttocks. Multiple ribs were fractured. She had open chest wounds, and her lung was punctured. She lost at least a liter of blood. Doctors look...

OAKLAND >> The charcoal ball cap commemorating his team’s Weste Conference championship was flipped backward on his head and he wore a black leather biker jacket. His expression betrayed neither relief nor exhaustion, although either would be understandable or, even, expected. For a guy who just wea...

In the 30 years he’s policed Long Beach, Deputy Chief Richard Rocchi has seen a lot on the streets. Nearing retirement after 30 years, what he remembers isn’t the drama; it’s the simple interactions with people. On one such occasion, he and his partner were sent to the Hellman neighborhood on a call...

Six white abalone stewed in six white buckets, each submerged in a chemical bath that was supposed to prompt them to spawn. Fewer than 1,000 of these slow-moving, cream-colored sea snails still live in the open ocean, according to one estimate, and they’re spaced so far apart from one another that t...

Jan Crouch, co-founder of one of the world’s larger Christian broadcasting networks, died early Tuesday of a massive stroke at 78 — before a truce could be called in her family’s painfully public civil war. Alongside her late husband, Paul, Crouch built Orange County-based Trinity Broadcasting Netwo...

Authorities are investigating a garage fire that broke out Tuesday afte oon in Long Beach’s MacArthur Park neighborhood. Firefighters were dispatched to the fire at 3:34 p.m. in the 1500 block of Gaviota Avenue, said Jake Heflin, a department spokesman. At the scene, they discovered the fire coming ...

In the 30 years he’s policed Long Beach, Deputy Chief Richard Rocchi has seen a lot on the streets. Nearing retirement after 30 years, what he remembers isn’t the drama; it’s the simple interactions with people. On one such occasion, he and his partner were sent to the Hellman neighborhood on a call...

For the second year in a row, North Long Beach residents cast ballots on a number of community improvement projects in a process called participatory budgeting that allows people to choose how to spend city money. Ninth District Councilmember Rex Richardson a ounced, Tuesday, the three wi ing projec...

The swimmer had bite marks in a half circle, teeth marks from her upper right shoulder in the back, down to her pelvis in front and to the other side of her buttocks. Multiple ribs were fractured. She had open chest wounds, and her lung was punctured. She lost at least a liter of blood. Doctors look...