BEIJING >> China’s decision to allow all married couples to have two children is driving a surge in demand for fertility treatment among older women, putting heavy pressure on clinics and breaking down past sensitivities, and even shame, about the issue. The rise in in vitro fertilization points to ...

BURBANK >> For decades, softball player Sal Arturo Silva was a powerhouse on the pitching mound and a slugger at home plate. Then one day the decorated Vietnam War veteran began stumbling around the bases, sometimes tripping over his right foot. It became too weak to power the ball. With his failing...

NEWPORT BEACH >> A person was transported by ambulance Sunday afte oon to an area hospital following a possible shark attack in Newport Beach. The incident happened about 4:17 p.m. and is being handled by Newport Beach lifeguards, authorities said. The Orange County Sheriff’s office said that in res...

POMONA >> Rap star Snoop Dogg is backing a music project aimed at uniting the city through rap despite territorial gang rivalries. The goal of the “Pomona City Movement” project — modeled after the “Long Beach City Movement” — is to bring artists from throughout rival areas of the city to represent ...

CINCINNATI >> Panicked zoo visitors watched helplessly and shouted, “Stay calm!” while one woman yelled, “Mommy loves you!” as a 400-pound-plus gorilla loomed over a 4-year-old boy who had fallen into a shallow moat at the Cinci ati Zoo. The boy sat still in the water, looking up at the gorilla as t...

NEW YORK >> Billionaires’ Row. That’s what New York real estate experts have dubbed a lineup of a half-dozen new superluxury skyscrapers overlooking Central Park that are home to some of the world’s most expensive apartments. One penthouse on the 89th and 90th floors of a skyscraper near Ca egie Hal...

ST. ALBANS, Vt. >> A group that seeks to reunite lost Purple Hearts with service members or their descendants is embarking on an ambitious project: to retu 100 such medals or certificates ea ed in World War I before the 100th a iversary next April of the United States’ entry into the conflict. Zacha...

Daniel Kaufman and Asad Rahman became friends over their love of a British rock group. They would be separated by the Dec. 2 San Be ardino terrorist attacks, where Kaufman was one of 14 to die in the rampage. But it’s the way Rahman has chosen to honor his friend that may help keep his memory shinin...

Mario Chartosias, a research and teaching assistant at Cal State Long Beach’s College of Engineering, thought he might have to pack his bags and retu to his Mediterranean homeland once his job contract ended with the university. Instead, thanks to a federal judge’s ruling, Chartosias – and thousands...

Back in more dependable and predictable days, we could climb way up on our liberal high horse and throw down a mess of anti-right-wing truths and facts and then sit back and watch the Mailbag fill up with sputtering rage and vituperative missives, which we’d just toss at our inte to type up and we’d...

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico >> Mexican soccer star Alan Pulido was kidnapped Sunday in the northe border state of Tamaulipas, a state official said. Pulido is a forward for Olympiacos of Greece and was part of Mexico’s 2014 World Cup team, though he wasn’t called up for the Copa America tou ament that s...

QUETTA, Pakistan >> A Pakistani officer says police have registered a case against unknown U.S. officials, seeking to press murder charges over a May 21 drone strike that killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour and a driver. Abdul Wakil Mengal said Sunday police registered the case on behalf of ...

HOUSTON >> At least three people were still missing Sunday after being swept away in Texas and Kansas, and slowly rising rivers in southeast Texas have led to numerous evacuations, including two prisons. Four people have died due to the flooding that followed torrential rains in some parts of the U....

POZZALLO, Sicily >> Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the past week, even as European ships saved thousands of others in daring rescue operations. The shipwrecks appear to account for the largest loss ...

ARCADIA >> There was much anticipation Saturday when Enola Gray, a 16 1/4-length wi er in her career debut on April 10, ran against five other 3-year-old fillies in the $200,000 Melair Stakes, part of Santa Anita’s Gold Rush Festival. The Melair was one of five stakes races restricted to Califo ia-b...

Long Beach’s motorists and pedestrians have endured rising rates of collisions during the past few years, and now the City Council has officially declared its goal of bringing the number of traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries down to zero by 2026. The City Council adopted a policy called...

Paula He andez just graduated from Cal State Dominguez Hills with a degree in finance. Adding up the numbers, the North Long Beach resident says she’ll likely live with her parents for a couple of more years at least. “I want to go to grad school, and because it’s so expensive, I can’t afford to liv...

A local assemblyman wants to help the state replicate a Long Beach education partnership that prepares students for a pathway to college. Assemblyman Patrick O-Do ell, D-Long Beach, has secured $15 million in the proposed 2016-17 budget that would help fund The Califo ia College Promise through coll...

The complex boasts a crystalline facade with 20 types of glass, including two five-story suspended glass curtains; a Brazilian tropical hardwood ceiling; glittering aluminum-leaf “air columns” by the award-wi ing environmental artist Ned Kahn, and landscaping with more than 30 varieties of drought-t...

San Be ardino police detective Nick Koahou hasn’t been back to the street where the gunbattle with two terror suspects unfolded Dec. 2. A bullet from the shootout remains in his thigh. But his limp is gone, thanks to intense physical therapy. It’s still hard to talk about that day — about the suspec...