SEAL BEACH >> Black smoke filled the sky and flames bu ed bright orange Friday mo ing as a fire inside the closed Ruby’s Diner at the end of the Seal Beach Pier bu ed for more than an hour. • PHOTOS: Blaze erupts at abandoned Ruby’s Diner on Seal Beach Pier A fire started around 7:35 a.m. inside the...

For decades, Ronald “Kartoon” Antwine witnessed gang fights and even shootings at a vacant, trash-strewn parcel in his South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. That all changed, he said, when a park opened there in January of last year following a fight spearheaded by Antwine against a developer who...

For decades, Ronald “Kartoon” Antwine witnessed gang fights and even shootings at a vacant, trash-strewn parcel in his South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. That all changed, he said, when a park opened there in January of last year following a fight spearheaded by Antwine against a developer who...

Gay pride flag raised at Long Beach City Hall in preparation for Pride Festival The gay pride flag flies in the courtyard in front of City Hall in Long Beach on Friday, May 20, 2016. The 33rd Pride Festival occurs this weekend. (Scott Varley / Staff Photographer) By Long Beach Press-Telegram Mayor R...

Salty, ocean air mixed with the smell of new rail cars Friday as hundreds of passengers boarded the first train to co ect Santa Monica with downtown Los Angeles in more than six decades. At seven new stations, folks stood in lines to participate in the historic opening of the 6.6-mile Expo Line exte...

Califo ia employers accelerated their hiring in April with 59,600 new jobs, and the state’s unemployment rate dipped to 5.3 percent, its lowest level since June 2007, according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department. Califo ia leads nation in job growth Year over y...

A neighborhood group that has adopted Bixby Park is lobbying hard to add a private security patrol there to stem the tide of drug use and other illegal activity, but is gaining little traction with city officials. Claudia Schou, a founding board member of Friends of Bixby Park, has promoted the idea...

After nearly a decade of relative stability, the Cal State Long Beach athletic department is headed for some major changes this summer, as athletic director Vic Cegles will be leaving the school, it was a ounced Friday. Cegles is headed to the University of Co ecticut, where he’s accepting a positio...

Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom “Mister Ed,” has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home said Friday. He was 96. The English-bo , Canadian-educated Young died Thursday, according to Jaime Larkin, spokeswoman...

Hill Classical Middle School, which will close after this school year to make way for the Sato Academy of Mathematics and Science, hosted a final reunion on Friday for all former students, parents, staff and families, who were invited to bring photos and share memories. The phase-out of Hill Classic...

A group of ducklings without a mother were rescued near a North Long Beach storm water pump station and are now being cared for by Long Beach Animal Care Services. Jim Agnello, a Long Beach Public Works employee found the group of five ducklings while inspecting the pump station near Artesia Bouleva...

If you went to Coachella this year, you probably lost something. I, for instance, lost an iPhone charger, some hearing ability and my lunch once, thanks to a nearby port-a-potty and a gust of wind. But if you’re more normal and lost a pair of sunglasses or your drivers licence, you may be in luck. S...

“It’s the simple joys,” said Candace Payne as she wiped away her tears. Payne posted a Facebook Live video Thursday afte oon of herself trying out a talking Chewbacca mask and has become an ove ight celebrity. Sound crazy? You must not have seen the video yet. Payne, a mother of two, bought herself ...

After nearly a decade of relative stability, the Long Beach State athletic department is headed for some major changes this summer, as athletic director Vic Cegles will be leaving the school. Cegles is headed to UCo , where he’s accepting a position working for his protégé, Dave Benedict, who was a ...

Califo ia employers accelerated their hiring in April with 59,600 new jobs and the state’s unemployment rate dipped to 5.3 percent, its lowest level since June 2007, according to figures released Friday from the state Employment Development Department. Califo ia leads nation in job growth Year over ...

WASHINGTON — A uniformed Secret Service officer shot a person who drew a weapon just outside the White House Friday afte oon, a U.S. law enforcement official said Friday. The shooting happened within view of sightseers outside the front of the building, near sidewalks crowded with families, school g...

ET is home! Well...almost. ET-94, the giant orange exte al fuel tank made to propel space shuttles out of the atmosphere, is actually sitting in Marina del Rey waiting until Saturday to begin a 12-mile drive to the Califo ia Science Center. Public works officials are pulling out all the stops for ET...

SEAL BEACH — Black smoke filled the sky and flames bu ed bright orange Friday mo ing as a fire inside the closed Ruby’s Diner at the end of the Seal Beach Pier bu ed for more than an hour, and was initially extinguished, although flames flared up again inside the building around 10:45 a.m. • PHOTOS:...

ET is home! Well...almost. ET-94, the giant orange exte al fuel tank made to propel space shuttles out of the atmosphere, is actually sitting in Marina del Rey as crew wait until Saturday to begin a 12-mile drive to the Califo ia Science Center. Public works officials are pulling out all the stops f...

A neighborhood group that has adopted Bixby Park is lobbying hard to add a private security patrol there to stem the tide of drug use and other illegal activity, but is gaining little traction with city officials. Claudia Schou, a founding board member of Friends of Bixby Park, has promoted the idea...