WHITTIER >> Authorities at the U.S. border with Mexico arrested a couple who tried to leave the country with a dead toddler in a duffle bag on Tuesday. San Diego Police Lt. Ray Valentin said detectives believe the crime occurred in Whittier. Joh y Lewis Hartley, 39, and Mercy Mary Becerra, 43, were ...

Thousands of acres are aflame in Sanu2009Be ardino County and more than 5,000u2009people have been asked to leave their homes. More evacuations could be on the way if the 7,000-acre Pilot fire doesn’t slow its expansion. It should be enough to light a fire under other Inland residents to prepare the...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> After wi ing the Olympic Games 200-meter butterfly final Tuesday night, Michael Phelps wasted little time tu ing to the crowd at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium and shaking a fist with only his index finger extended. Phelps was No. 1. Again. • PHOTOS: Team USA on Tuesday, Aug. 8 Phelp...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> In coaching national teams from two countries at a total of 11 Olympic Games, a career that spans nearly a half-century, U.S. national team director Martha Karolyi has cried only twice. The first time was when her first prodigy, Romania’s Nadia Comaneci, registered a perfect 10.0 a...

The downtown Long Beach intersection where an unknown shooter killed a woman and her young daughter Saturday night has been transformed into a place of public mou ing. The intersection, where E. Ninth Street crosses Locust Avenue in a usually quiet neighborhood, was the scene of a Monday night vigil...

Police on Tuesday said they arrested a Long Beach man suspected of stabbing another man to death outside a Santa Ana convenience store. Logan James Cu ingham, 27, was arrested by Long Beach police in the stabbing of 40-year-old Jason Paul Torres of Costa Mesa, said Santa Ana police. Torres was stabb...

A new global logistics program at Los Angeles Harbor College and Cal State Dominguez Hills will give those living in the shadow of the nation’s busiest seaport another pathway to a career in port-related industries and help the growing industry close a skills gap. The new program, one of several edu...

The Midtown Business Improvement District, an organization established about one year ago to improve business conditions in the Cambodia Town area of Long Beach, may have its first executive director on the job next month. Ke eth McDonald, the executive director of Long Beach Transit who also chairs...

The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to transform a portion of a hospital campus in Downey into a community sports complex. Supervisor Don Knabe has pushed for the redevelopment of Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center’s long-abandoned 70-acre South Campus, which is just south of the wo...

Summer attendance at Walt Disney Co.’s domestic theme parks was down but the company’s Parks and Resorts division still ea ed record revenue for the quarter. In Disney’s third fiscal quarter, which ended July 2, revenue for Disney’s Parks and Resorts division increased 6 percent to $4.4 billion and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Green, not gold, was the color of the day at the Olympic diving venue. Sure, China won its third consecutive gold medal on Tuesday, but the buzz was about the color of the water in the diving pool — a murky green. That was in stark contrast to the pool’s light blue color the previou...

Family members and friends of a man mistakenly shot and killed by a deputy last month confronted the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday and demanded they further investigate the actions of the sheriff’s department. Do ell Thompson Jr., 27, was killed in a deputy-involved shooting in Com...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Team USA repeated as Olympic women’s team gymnastics champion with a performance that was beyond fierce. The U.S. presented a convincing case as the greatest team in history at the Rio Olympic Arena Tuesday, rolling up 184.897 total points, more than the U.S. squad, the self-procla...

Los Angeles, San Fe ando Valley and Santa Monica BevMo: Beer and wine tasting, 4-7 p.m. Friday. Cost $5. 7100 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, 310-882-6971; 3212 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, 310-453-5600; 10984 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, 310-473-9600; 330 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, ...

Los Angeles, San Fe ando Valley and Santa Monica area Events Il Fo aio-Woodland Hills: Festa Regionale menu: Sicily, Aug. 7-21. Check website for menu details. Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday. 6320 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills. 818-297-1700. www.ilfo a...

WILMINGTON, N.C. >> Donald Trump said Tuesday that Second Amendment advocates might find a way to stop Hillary Clinton from rolling back gun rights if she’s elected, setting off a political firestorm as Democrats quickly accused him of encouraging violence against his opponent. Speaking at a rally i...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Adam Krikorian leaned over for a moment, trying desperately to keep his emotions in check. U.S. women’s water polo captain Maggie Steffens then walked up, put her hand on his back and offered a consoling smile. Steffens and company were right behind their grieving coach, all day lon...

Abbey Weitzeil of Saugus ea ed her first Olympic medal, helping the U.S. women’s team to a silver in the 4x100 meters relay on Sunday. The U.S. team of Simone Manuel, Weitzeil, Dana Vollmer and Katie Ledecki finished with a time of 3 minutes, 31.89 seconds, behind the Australian team of Emma McKeon,...

The flames chewing at vegetation in the San Be ardino Mountains have grown to cover 6,963 acres as of Tuesday mo ing, and firefighters say they still have the blaze about 6 percent contained. Nobody has been injured, and no structures have been lost in the Pilot fire, said San Be ardino County Fire ...

What to watch The U.S. women’s gymnastics team is a heavy favorite to win the team gold on Tuesday, led by Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas. If the U.S. team performs at a level near its effort in preliminaries, it has a chance to be remembered as one of the best ever. Read more. In swimming, Katie Le...