RIO DE JANEIRO >> American Ibtihaj Muhammad looked like all the other fencers when she stepped on the piste, save for the non-descript black scarf covering her head. With that small gesture, Muhammad made history. Muhammad became the first American athlete Monday to compete in the Olympics with a hi...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> It was the smallest of gestures on the largest of stages, a tiny rubber bracelet meaning more than the five giant rings that tower over these Olympics. McQuin Baron didn’t play Monday in the U.S. men’s water polo game against Spain. That, however, didn’t stop the backup goalkeeper ...

While the U.S. men’s 4x100 relay team made headlines Sunday with its gold medal performance, Valencia’s Anthony Ervin was also key part of the story and one of the Rio Olympics’ unlikeliest gold medal wi ers. Ervin helped the men’s team advance from the prelims Saturday, but didn’t swim the finals a...

Few things are as a oying to us Southe Califo ians as the constant traffic gridlock we often face on freeways and surface streets. And it impacts business — big time. On any given day, scores of Southland employees arrive late for work because they’re grappling with a traffic backup or a road constr...

Rio de Janeiro >> The slimmest of medal chances rested in the hands of Danell Leyva, Team USA’s last man on the last rotation, the absolute last hope in the Olympic Games men’s gymnastics team all-around final Sunday. So Leyva chased the medal around and around the high bar, growing faster, more con...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> It was the smallest of gestures on the largest of stages, a tiny rubber bracelet meaning more than the five giant rings that tower over these Olympics. McQuin Baron didn’t play Monday in the U.S. men’s water polo game against Spain. That, however, didn’t stop the backup goalkeeper ...

Peter Navarro, a professor of economics and public policy at UCu2009Irvine’s business school, is emerging as one of the most visible advocates of Donald Trump’s economic platform. “My role is to make sure the analysis is rock solid, the facts are rock solid,” said Navarro, 67, who is the only econom...

DETROIT >> Trying to tu the page after a tumultuous campaign stretch, Donald Trump promised he would provide deep tax cuts and jolt middle-class workers back to prosperity. Trump’s speech Monday to the Detroit Economic Club reflected the Republican presidential nominee’s attempt to reboot and redire...

A pregnant woman has mo ing sickness so severe she can’t keep food down, so she stirs some ca abis-infused oil into her mo ing tea to regain her appetite. An elderly man has chronic pain that keeps him up at night, so he smokes marijuana most nights before he and his wife go to bed. There’s a growin...

Results for the two-day vote should be finalized late Tuesday. Union workers interviewed Monday appeared pleased with the contract, especially the preservation of pension and health care benefits. “I’m satisfied. All we ask is that we be treated fairly,” said Celia Thompson, a 25-year floral supervi...

Although Long Beach pension payments are not among the costliest in the state, some 400 retirees who worked for the city, the twin ports and Cal State Long Beach still collected six-figure salaries last year, according to data recently released by Transparent Califo ia. The watchdog group on Monday ...

A man and woman found dead at the bottom of a San Pedro cliff were identified Monday as residents of Wilmington. Los Angeles County coroner’s officials identified the pair as Jacqueline Beatriz Murcia, 23, and Silvestre Garcia, 24. They were found dead Sunday mo ing on the rocky beach near South Par...

West Nile virus is continuing to spread across the Southland, with vector-control officials a ouncing Monday that the virus was detected for the first time this year in six areas. According to the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District, West Nile virus activity was recently detected in C...

SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS >> Some 4,700 people have been told to evacuate as the Pilot fire flared Monday afte oon in the San Be ardino Mountains. The fire, which started Sunday between Silverwood Lake and Lake Arrowhead, is bu ing in two directions, said Capt. Liz Brown, a Cal Fire spokeswoman: nort...

After a lengthy, successful career as a professional swimmer, Long Beach native and Wilson High School alum Jessica Hardy confirmed recently that she will retire from competition. “I would’ve loved to have ended my career in Rio, but I had 11 years of my dreams coming true,” she said. “I’m leaving t...

RIO DE JANEIRO — For Team USA, the Olympic Games men’s team gymnastics final had a familiar ending. And begi ing. The U.S., unable to overcome a series of early mistakes, finished fifth with a total score of 268.560 at the Rio Olympic Arena on Monday. Japan captured the gold medal. Monday was striki...

A man and woman found dead at the bottom of a San Pedro cliff were identified Monday as residents of Wilmington. Los Angeles County coroner’s officials identified the pair as Jacqueline Beatriz Murcia, 23, and Silvestre Garcia, 24. They were found dead Sunday mo ing off South Parker Street and West ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Another game, another rout for the U.S. women’s basketball team. This time though, it wasn’t record setting. Diana Taurasi scored 13 points and Elena Delle Do e added 12 to help the Americans beat Spain 103-63 on Monday in women’s group play. The victory was the 43rd consecutive for...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Lilly King has her sights set on wi ing Olympic gold and she’s not about to let anyone get in her way, especially not world champion breaststroker Yulia Efimova of Russia. King made that clear in a finger-wagging display after her 100-meter breaststroke win over the Russian, who has...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> If U.S. gymnast Aly Raisman has trouble sleeping Monday night it wasn’t because she was conce ed about the competition at the Olympic Games team final at the Rio Olympic Arena Tuesday afte oon. “Simone and Lauri will come in my room at 9:30 and I literally have to get them out at 9...