Cal State Long Beach will confer more 10,000 degrees to students next week. The schedule of graduations: May 17 9 a.m., College of Engineering 1 p.m., College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics 5 p.m., College of Education May 18 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., College of Liberal Arts May 19 9 a.m., Col...

DEVORE >> To celebrate the 20th a iversary of the traveling metal and heavy rock circus known as Ozzfest, curated by Ozzy and Sharon Osbou e, it was a ounced Thursday that it would join forces with the newer, Slipknot-curated event, Knotfest, at San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore on Sept. 24-25. The ...

“She’s a housekeeper with the heart of a nurse.” — ER nurse Cara Armstrong. The sun is just rising over her Reseda apartment Wednesday mo ing as Lily Guevara begins her 30-minute walk to the emergency room at Providence Tarzana Medical Center. As she does every day when she gets to work, the houseke...

Authorities Thursday circulated a photo of a man believed to be co ected to the suspicious death of a man who may have been strangled in Lakewood early Wednesday. Erick David Maturano-Borja, 24, of Hawaiian Gardens was found dead at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Ed Winter, assistant chief at the L...

Craft brewers Ballast Point a ounced plans to host a job fair for its new brewpub in Alamitos Bay, near Boathouse on the Bay, in Long Beach. The job fair is scheduled to take place from noon to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, according to a post on the San Diego company’s Facebook page. The new brewpub w...

Seal Beach police have interviewed a person of interest in an ongoing investigation of a fatal two-alarm blaze in Seal Beach that killed a man and dog in late April. Detectives found Eric Jesus Andrade, a homeless man, in Long Beach, said Sgt. Michael Henderson, a Seal Beach police spokesman, in an ...

CANNES, France — Woody Allen says he doesn’t read anything written about him, even if it’s by his own son. • PHOTOS: Stars descending on Ca es film festival include George and Amal Clooney, Julia Roberts, Naomi Watts, Blake Lively Allen said Thursday that he will not read his son Ronan Farrow’s essa...

Long Beach was named the 10th best bike city in the United States, according to an analysis by real estate company Zillow. Zillow based the rankings on the percent of commuters that bike to work (eight of every 1,000 in Long Beach), how long it takes to get to work on a bike (22 minutes in Long Beac...

The thing about Meatless Monday, which as you know is the law in Long Beach, is the implication that you have to eat meat the rest of the week. It’s the textbook example of the exception proving the rule. There are bound to be days when you accidentally go meatless on a non-Monday. You get a rare ch...

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The parents of two boys who drowned when the family’s car plunged off a pier into the waters of the Port of Los Angeles last year filed a lawsuit today against the city of Los Angeles and several other gove ment entities. Ali Elmezayen and Rabab Diab filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, ...

As a horse racing fan for more than 40 years, I feel like a little kid who just woke up on Christmas mo ing to the sight of a countless number of presents under the tree with my name on ’em. It’s unbelievable, the number of top-notch, Eclipse Award-wi ing thoroughbreds that Southe Califo ia racing f...

LONDON >> The World Health Organization is wa ing pregnant women not to travel to areas with Zika, and advising other travelers to take precautions against the mosquitoes that spread the virus ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. In a statement issued on Thursday, the U.N. health agency also said t...

VATICAN CITY >> Pope Francis said Thursday he is willing to create a commission to study whether women can be deacons in the Catholic Church, signaling ope ess to letting women serve in ordained ministry currently reserved to men. Francis agreed to a proposal to create an official study commission d...

MOUNTAIN VIEW >> Google wants professional women to be better represented in emoji form. In a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, which controls specifications for emojis, Google says it wants to create a new set “with a goal of highlighting the diversity of women’s careers and empowering girls ever...

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco-based social media network created to co ect neighbors in online communities said it is making changes on how members can report suspicious activity, after a group complained it was being used for racial profiling. The change comes after some residents in racially div...

DALLAS >> One question has lingered in the Central Texas farming town of West since a fertilizer plant caught fire in 2013 and exploded, killing 15 people and damaging at least $100 million in property: What caused the blaze? On Wednesday, federal officials came to West with an answer — and in the p...

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA >> Malaysia’s gove ment said Thursday that two more pieces of debris, discovered in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, were “almost certainly” from Flight 370, bringing the total number of pieces believed to have come from the missing Malaysian jet to five. The a...

LOS ANGELES >> If the “Grim Sleeper” took a break from murdering women in Los Angeles, it was shorter than originally believed, according to prosecutors seeking the death penalty against the serial killer. Deputy District Atto ey Beth Silverman plans to begin outlining evidence Thursday of five addi...

Authorities investigating the death of a man in Lakewood early Wednesday say the victim may have been strangled. A man present at the residence in the 6200 block of Carpintero Avenue told Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Detectives he saw a third person — described only as a white ma...