Long Beach City Hall will be closed on Monday, in recognition of Memorial Day. Street sweeping and enforcement of violations will not take place Monday, but will resume on May 31. City officials urge residents to read parking meters. New smart parking meters in Long Beach display days and hours of o...

LONG BEACH — The Califo ia State University Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote today on a proposed labor contract that would provide pay raises for thousands of faculty members. The Collective Bargaining committee’s vote Tuesday in favor of the contract likely ensures it will be approved by the ...

BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. — Je ifer Dumas sits on a sofa, her smiling 6-month-old girl on her lap. The room is full of bright toys and children’s books. A rainbow-colored activity mat is on the floor, and Wi ie the Pooh is painted on the walls. It looks like any other nursery, except that there are bars o...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton disregarded various State Department guidelines for avoiding cybersecurity risks, an inte al audit found Wednesday, faulting her and past secretaries of state for weak information management. The inspector general’s 78-page analysis, a copy of which was obtained by The A...

NEW YORK — CEOs at the biggest companies got a 4.5 percent pay raise last year. That’s almost double the typical American worker’s, and a lot more than investors ea ed from owning their stocks — a big fat zero. The typical chief executive in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index made $10.8 million, includ...

COMPTON — A man was fatally shot on a street in Compton and sheriff’s detectives were searching for his killer, authorities said today. The shooting took place about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday in the 4600 block of East Rosecrans Avenue, said sheriff’s homicide Lt. John Corina. The victim was taken to a local...

“We’ve got to protect the American people. We’re not all that far from San Be ardino, are we?” – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton referring to the Dec. 2 terrorist attacks during her UC Riverside speech “I’m not voting for Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman and I didn’t vote for ...

“I come from a working class family and I will always stand with the working class people of this country.” — Democratic presidential candidate Be ie Sanders, at a rally Tuesday in San Be ardino Loves “everything about Be ie.” — Ashley Mendez, a UCR student from Chino “In America, people should have...

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Be ie Sanders and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are campaigning throughout Southe Califo ia ahead of the state’s June 7 primary. If you missed them in the Inland Empire on Tuesday, here’s where to see them Wednesday: •...

Democrat Hillary Clinton ripped the Republicans’ economic policies and GOP front-ru er Donald Trump’s candidacy during her speech at UC Riverside on Tuesday evening. “Trump may have started out as entertainment, but now it’s really conce ing,” she said. She vowed to stand up to Trump, saying just be...

SAN BERNARDINO >> Democratic presidential candidate Be ie Sanders brought his campaign of unity and diversity to a crowd of more than 5,200 supporters Tuesday at the National Orange Show Events Center. Sanders took on Wall Street and corporations like Walmart, saying the middle class should not have...

Spirited supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Be ie Sanders rose to their feet and roared Tuesday, May 24, as he began a speech that vowed change and a better America for all. Change never comes from the top, Sanders said, standing before a massive ba er that stated: “A Future to Believe ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. >> Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico tu ed violent Tuesday night as demonstrators threw bu ing T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at officers, overtu ed trash cans and knocked down barricades. Police responded by firing pepper spray and smoke grenades into ...

Uber is looking for a few good men and women — about 12,000, to be exact. On Tuesday the ride-sharing service unveiled a Work on Demand in ESPANOL program. It’s part of an initiative to recruit 12,000 drivers in i er city neighborhoods throughout Southe Califo ia to serve the region’s Latino communi...

Ahead of Donald Trump’s campaign trip to Southe Califo ia today, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti slammed the presumed Republican nominee on Tuesday, calling Trump the “ultimate caricature” of a politician who will say anything to get elected. “What we can’t do with Donald Trump is normalize him as a...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. >> In distance, the space separating Casey Wasserman from the hotel ballroom he was leaving to the one is was headed was no more a 15 or 20-yard slant patte . In time, well, he might as well have been stuck in a parking lot on the 405 Freeway. Based on the satisfied smile Wasserman f...

A new labor agreement will give union members living in Los Angeles and Orange counties a significant advantage when it comes to being hired to work on Port of Long Beach contracts. Long Beach’s Board of Harbor Commissioners, which sets policy for the Long Beach port, voted Monday night to approve a...

Members of the CSU faculty union will receive a more than 10 percent salary increase covering three years after a CSU committee approved the contract Tuesday. The Collective Bargaining Committee unanimously ratified the agreement in a 5 to 0 vote during the Board of Trustees’ May meeting at the CSU ...

The two candidates seeking to represent Long Beach’s 2nd City Council District both called for what could essentially be described as a “parking czar” at their most recent debate. Business owner Eric Gray and labor advocate Jea ine Pearce are ru ing to represent an area of coastal Long Beach where p...

It was moments before his third rally in 24 hours and Be ie Sanders entered the Anaheim Convention Center room Tuesday mo ing. It was empty -- save for an American flag and a Califo ia flag as the backdrop for the quick interview. A Secret Service agent standing by the door moved slightly. Sanders’ ...