Three candidates vying for the seat of outgoing Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe are championing crime fighting and transportation among their top priorities ahead of the June 7 primary election. Rep. Janice Hahn, D-San Pedro, Steve Napolitano, senior deputy to Knabe, and Ralph Pacheco, a min...

Maybe Huntington’s Dog Beach should be re-named Crab Beach? Little red crab critters washed up along the water line – some dead, some still squirming around and pinching their claws – Wednesday afte oon near Goldenwest Street, up the coast to the Bolsa Chica Wetlands inlet in Huntington Beach. Lifeg...

A retired Seal Beach police sergeant died Sunday from complications after suffering a stroke. Sgt. Michael Vasquez, 68, worked a number of assignments, including patrol officer, traffic investigator, detective and patrol sergeant, for the Seal Beach Police Department from February 1969 until his ret...

Three candidates vying for the seat of outgoing Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe are championing crime fighting and transportation among their top priorities ahead of the June 7 primary election. Rep. Janice Hahn, D-San Pedro, Steve Napolitano, senior deputy to Knabe, and Ralph Pacheco, a min...

Palos Verdes Estates officials lashed out at the media this week, accusing them of insinuating the city ignores criminal activity in Lunada Bay attributed to a territorial group of surfers known as the Bay Boys. News outlets around the world have written stories about the surfers in Lunada Bay, but ...

Authorities investigating the death of a man in Lakewood early Wednesday now believe 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 an...

Metrolink is offering anyone with a bike a free ride during Bike to Work Week, May 16 - May 20. Train riders must board with a bicycle and accompany their bike during the entire trip. The promotion includes Bike to Work Day, Thursday, May 18. May is National Bike Month, established in 1956 by the Le...

WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday launched a fact-finding mission into the loosely regulated, multibillion-dollar world of fantasy sports games — a multibillion-dollar business that seemingly advertised everywhere during the pro football season. Lawmakers at a House hearing were generally supportiv...

MINNEAPOLIS — The date has been set for the 2018 NFL Super Bowl to be played in Mi eapolis. The Mi esota Super Bowl Host Committee says the NFL has scheduled the 2018 game for Feb. 4 at the U.S. Bank Stadium, which is currently under construction. The stadium is due to be completed in time for the u...

LAKEWOOD — A man was found dead today in Lakewood, authorities said. Homicide detectives were sent to the 6200 block of Carpintero Avenue at 3:34 a.m. to investigate the circumstances of the death, said Deputy Mike Barraza of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Information was not immediately availabl...

CHANHASSEN, MINN. >> A Mi esota doctor saw Prince twice in the month before his death — including the day before he died — and prescribed him medication, according to contents of a search warrant that were revealed as authorities retu ed to the musician’s suburban Mi eapolis estate as part of their ...

PASADENA >> Child abuse prevention and foster care took center stage Tuesday at a forum for candidates vying for outgoing Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich’s seat ahead of the June 7 presidential primary election. Five of eight candidates ru ing for the seat were asked a series of ...

Los Angeles’ transportation problems are not only major a oyances, they may also be detrimental to regional job growth, according to a Los Angeles County Business Federation survey released Tuesday. Local employers who responded to the survey named transportation as one of their top business conce s...

Frontier Communications will provide credits to customers who experienced service disruptions following the firm’s acquisition of cable television and telephone assets from Verizon, an executive said during Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Melinda White, the company’s regional president in charge of ...

The largest union representing Long Beach city gove ment employees is seeking an injunction that would at least temporarily prevent three breakaway factions from leaving the association. The union, the Inte ational Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, has filed several allegations agains...

Long Beach police are asking for the public’s help in finding the driver they believe was involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash two weeks ago. Police on Tuesday released a photo of the vehicle allegedly involved in the crash — a 2005-2009, white Dodge Charger. The victim, 27-year-old Buena Park resi...

Ralphs Grocery Company will be hiring about 400 people throughout Southe Califo ia, and is holding hiring events at all of its stores Saturday. “We have a wide variety of part-time positions that we need to fill in every Ralphs store in Southe Califo ia,” Kendra Doyel, vice president of corporate af...

In that happy era between vice presidents Aaron Burr and Dick Cheney shooting people for no good reason, was a time when politicians settled scores in a civilized ma er: with mallets, like bigod men. Legislated segregation, rampant sexism, the Korean and Cold wars, the continuing though dwindling th...

ExxonMobil successfully restarted its Torrance refinery and went without pollution-control devices for fewer than three hours before its electrostatic precipitator resumed operation, the region’s air pollution watchdog has confirmed. “The ESP is now full functioning,” Sam Atwood, a spokesman with th...

A lawsuit filed by the twin brother of a man fatally shot by Long Beach police responding to a takeover-style robbery in 2012 was dismissed Tuesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael P. Vicencia dismissed the suit filed by Donte House, finding that police use of deadly force was reasonable. H...