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...

After several years laying the groundwork, San Pedro’s long-anticipated AltaSea marine research center is about to move into the spotlight. Architectural designs for the campus were unveiled at a reception dubbed “Transformation” last week in downtown Los Angeles by Gensler, a global architecture, d...

When Frontier Communications was preparing to take over Verizon’s landline-related operations in Califo ia, Texas and Florida, the company stressed that it would make the transition as smooth as possible. But as scores of newly minted Frontier customers know, that transition has been anything but sm...

Three baby boys who are too tiny to crawl might end up teaching us that legal bureaucracy, mode medicine and motherhood can be a dangerous and, maybe, incompatible mix. Melissa Cook struggles to describe what it’s like to know that the triplets she gave birth to — “my babies,” she calls them — are i...

LOS ANGELES >> A Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area of Los Angeles has been extensively defaced by graffiti. The vandalism occurred sometime during the past week, KCAL/KCBS-TV reported. The homespun memorial painted on a block-long wall on Pacific Avenue lists the names of American service memb...

WASHINGTON >> American ships and fighter jets maneuvering across the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan represent the “new normal” in U.S.-Pacific relations despite rising tensions with China and Moscow. U.S. moves in recent months have led to angry protests from China and Russia, which contend th...

HELENA, Mont. >> As the National Park Service kicks off a cente ial summer expected to draw record crowds, the agency is seriously considering caps on how many people pass through some of the country’s most iconic landscapes and historical sites each day. Park managers have begun looking at whether,...

CARMEL, Ind. >> “Lockdown, lockdown, lockdown. This is a drill.” With those seven words, calmly a ounced over the intercom system, an eerie silence overtook a bustling elementary school of 650 students in suburban Indianapolis. Lights were tu ed off and blinds shut. In some classrooms, doors were ba...

COMPTON >> Two men were shot, one of them fatally, in Compton and detectives were searching for the shooter Saturday mo ing, according to the sheriff’s department. The attack took place at 10:50 p.m. Friday, in the 300 block of West Raymond Street, according to Deputy Mike Barraza. One of the men wa...

Los Angeles Count gas prices rise slightly AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File By City News Service LOS ANGELES >> The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose four-tenths of a cent Saturday to $2.836, one day after dropping one-tenth of a cent. The average price i...

WEST COVINA >> In a strange, seemingly illogical series chain of events, a man and woman called police on themselves to falsely report a carjacking Friday before leading West Covina police on a chase that ended with a crash in Bassett that injured two bystanders, including a little girl, authorities...

BEAUMONT >> Beaumont has a few things in common with San Be ardino and Stockton, which filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Insolvency, years of deficit spending and borrowing from restricted accounts to shore up the city’s general fund are among the issues that state auditors and local officials have iden...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Hawtho e-based SpaceX has pulled off another rocket landing, the third in just under two months. The first stage of the unma ed Falcon 9 rocket settled onto a barge 400 miles off the Florida coast, eight minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Cameras on t...

At a time when Palos Verdes Estates faced more pressure than ever to respond to allegations of surfing localism at Lunada Bay, its Police Department quietly arrested a surfer accused in a federal lawsuit of battering and sexually harassing a nonlocal — but he will not be charged. Police arrested 36-...

State health officials urged the public on Friday to take precautions against mosquito bites this holiday weekend and beyond, especially since the threat of the Zika virus spreading into the United States has grown. The Califo ia Department of Public Health issued an alert to those leaving the state...

Long Beach leaders and a housing developer will jointly apply for $17.7 million in state funding in hopes of financing a housing complex for low-income residents and veterans. Century Housing Corporation and the city will work to assemble funding to build The Beacon Apartments at 1201-1235 Long Beac...

Submitted for your consideration: Star Wars is the only thing preventing an actual civil war. To be fair, that proposition may be the product of heightened anxiety brought about by an irregular sleep schedule, too many close calls with Long Beach’s friendly neighborhood jaywalkers or prolonged expos...

Summer could see a new eruption of coyote wars as Los Angeles, a city that hasn’t trapped or euthanized the wild animals since 1994, prepares to tackle an issue that can be counted on to inspire passionate debate. In light of increased sightings in his harbor district, Los Angeles City Councilman Jo...

SAN GABRIEL >> Two brothers from Long Beach were behind bars Friday after San Gabriel police found them driving through town with a kilogram of cocaine stowed in a shoe box, officials said. Manuel Eugenio Salazar, 23, and brother Jorge Eugenio Salazar, 22, were both booked on suspicion of transporta...

SACRAMENTO >> A portion of the 10 Freeway will soon bear the name of Pomona police Officer Shaun Diamond who was killed in the line of duty, officials said. The State Assembly gave final approval to Resolution 104, which will declare the 10 Freeway from the 57 Freeway to the North Towne Avenue exit ...