A 63-year-old man who went missing for nearly two weeks as he was being transported from a Westwood hospital to a care facility in Long Beach was reunited with his family Tuesday mo ing. Deloris Farmer said she got a call from a bank teller in Inglewood saying that her brother, Andrew La Mont Farmer...

When: Various dates (the fair runs Sept. 2-25 but is closed Mondays and Tuesdays). Where: Fairplex, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona. Cost: $34.50-$145 and includes fair admission. There are limited amounts of free assigned seats handed out at 2 p.m. concert days at the ticket booth on Rose Lane — firs...

For more than two decades, Margaret Cho has kept audiences laughing with her candid stand-up routines about politics, race and gay rights. Now the comedian is hoping to raise awareness about sexual abuse and cement her status as a singer-songwriter with her new album, “American Myth.” “It’s comedy, ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Televangelist Jan Crouch, who co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network with her husband more than four decades ago, died Tuesday just days after she suffered a stroke, her family said on the network’s website Crouch, instantly recognizable for her mountain of blonde hair, warm smi...

In Indonesia, mass indignation followed the horrific gang rape, in April, of a 14-year-old girl walking home from school. And so did a bold proposal: Why not implant microchips inside all convicted child rapists? That way, police would forever know their whereabouts — even after the offender was rel...

Bars and hip restaurants are all well and good, but downtown Long Beach families with small children can have something of their own to look forward to since construction of a new playground is scheduled to begin soon. A groundbreaking event for what Long Beach officials call the Promenade Square Pa...

Nature sure is majestic and, in some cases, adorable. This video, shot by Robert Martinez who goes by Parliament of Owls on YouTube showcases both sides of nature. Martinez’s footage, taken somewhere in the San Gabriel Mountains and posted to the web Monday night, shows a mother mountain lion and he...

Looking for a job? Come to the Holiday I Long Beach Airport from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday for a job fair. Companies will be hiring for a number of positions, including sales representatives, account executives, insurance sales, customer service, merchandisers, retail sales and many more. Profes...

LOS ANGELES >> Joh y Depp’s estranged wife has given Los Angeles police a statement to support her account of an alleged domestic violence incident involving the actor, her lawyers said Tuesday. Atto eys Samantha Spector and Joseph P. Koenig wrote in a statement that model-actress Amber Heard had sp...

“Seating themselves on the green sward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, nature’s special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoor...

Hey, remember MySpace? Yeah, it got hacked. Yes, your old Myspace account likely got hacked. You should probably go change your password or something. It’s scary, kind of, but mostly fu y. At least that’s what people on mode -day Twitter said. In all seriousness, if you never shut down your account,...

LOS ANGELES — Mandy Pifer drove to the Los Angeles Police Department last week and prepared to face a fresh wave of grief. Pifer, a crisis counselor, has spent the last six years comforting people in the aftermath of death. The woman whose sister killed herself with an electric chainsaw. The 8-year-...

PARIS — Yes, they actually managed to complete a match on this wettest of weeks at the French Open. Two, even. And both involved surprises: Two of the top half-dozen seeded women lost within minutes of each other, No. 2 Agnieszka Radwanska and No. 6 Simona Halep. Radwanska, the 2012 Wimbledon ru er-...

Megan Ba es Daily Breeze About 18,000 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers in San Pedro were briefly without power this mo ing, but the cause of the outage has not yet been determined, officials said. The outage at about 7:40 a.m. spa ed much of the port community, said DWP spokeswoma...

LOS ANGELES — Jurors being asked to recommend whether the man convicted of the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings should be sentenced to death or life in prison will begin hearing the defense’s side of the case today. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kathleen Ke edy told jurors on Thursday last week tha...

LOS ANGELES — Califo ia Gov. Jerry Brown is endorsing Hillary Clinton just a week before the state’s June 7 primary. In an open letter tweeted Tuesday, Brown writes that Clinton has the best shot at stopping Republican Donald Trump, whose candidacy he calls “dangerous.” The gove or says that while h...

WASHINGTON — Peter Costanzo is the man who helped tu Donald Trump into @RealDonaldTrump. That, of course, is Trump’s Twitter account — a high-octane portal for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to pump out insults, political attacks and self-promotion to more than 8 million followers. ...

A man came into a Houston auto detail shop and began shooting, killing a man known to be a customer and putting a neighborhood on lockdown Sunday before being killed by a SWAT officer, police said. The shooter was identified by Los Angeles broadcast media as Dionisio Garza III, a 2009 Rancho Cucamon...

LONG BEACH >> Hundreds gathered Monday at Rosie the Riveter Park to watch the unveiling of a memorial wall dedicated to more than 6,800 troops who have fallen since the 9/11 attacks. The names engraved upon the wall are of any serviceman or woman who died while on active duty. Laura Herzog, founder ...

Don’t swim alone. Stay clear of areas heavily populated with sea lions. Just like hikers need to be conscious of mountain lions in remote hills, ocean users need to be on alert for predators that lurk beneath the water’s surface, especially as great white shark sightings the few past years have spik...