Eight current and former black employees at Boeing in El Segundo filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the aerospace firm, alleging they were hired into lesser positions, passed over for promotions and kept from attending satellite launches by an “old boys network” that favored whites. Three of the employ...

A 70-year-old man was found guilty Tuesday in Torrance Superior Court of beating up a young mother who blocked his path into a Gardena parking space as she placed her 6-month-old son in his car seat. Jurors deliberated about five hours before finding Roy Foster Otis guilty of assault with a deadly w...

A 70-year-old man was found guilty Tuesday in Torrance Superior Court of beating up a young mother who blocked his path into a Gardena parking space as she placed her 6-month-old son in his car seat. Jurors deliberated about five hours before finding Roy Foster Otis guilty of assault with a deadly w...

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

It’s official, the best large brewpub in the world is right here in Long Beach. Beachwood BBQ & Brewing has been awarded World Beer Cup Champion Large Brewpub at the World Beer Cup Awards held in Philadelphia this weekend. The awards, held every two years, hand out Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in ...

A Long Beach teen boy and two girls are facing six felony counts after they allegedly attacked a pregnant woman, the boy’s girlfriend, in a plot to cause her to miscarry. Angel Contreras, 17, Claudia Rodriguez, 16, and Candy Patricio, 17, each face two counts of attempted murder, two counts of consp...

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...

The Board of Supervisors Tuesday renewed $10,000 rewards for information leading to arrests and convictions in two unrelated fatal shootings in Willowbrook and Long Beach. Supervisor Don Knabe recommended extending the reward in the Long Beach shooting, which had been set to expire Tuesday. Shortly ...

A man convicted of helping dump the body of a pregnant woman into the waters off Long Beach was released on bail this week after 18 years in prison, another felony case upended because of questions related to the Orange County District Atto ey’s Office’s use of jailhouse informants. Henry Rodriguez,...

ExxonMobil has completed the initial six hours of restarting its Torrance refinery without pollution-control devices and has resumed operation of its electrostatic precipitator, the region’s air pollution watchdog confirmed today. “The ESP is now full functioning,” Sam Atwood, a spokesman with the S...

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 mo ing released a photo of the vehicle allegedly involved in the crash — a 2005-2009, white Dodge Charger. The victim, 27-year-old Buena Pa...

LOMITA — A woman was found dead today at the scene of a fire in an apartment building in Lomita, authorities said. Firefighters sent to the 26000 block of Narbo e Avenue at 5:47 a.m. extinguished the flames in about 20 minutes, according to the county fire department. The woman, who was in her 40s, ...

Marie Callender’s Crave and Save menu offers 16 meals priced from $6 to $9, including Gourmet Grilled Cheese with Bacon, Veggie Tacos and BLTA (bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado). In addition, there are half-price appetizers such as Cheesy Artichoke Dip, Crispy Chicken Tenders and Fresh Avocado and...

Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepbu were among the notables who once slept aboard the Queen Mary, and now you can too — and at a discount. The iconic ocean liner is offering half-off deluxe, family or suite staterooms when booked by 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, using the promo code SAVE50. Re...

The Getty Center will exhibit three of Rembrandt’s earliest known paintings, including the recently discovered “The Unconscious Patient (An Allegory of the Sense of Smell)” in a special exhibition that opens Wednesday, May 11, and runs through Aug. 28. Exhibited alongside the work that surfaced at a...

Nestlé Waters North America has alleged the U.S. Forest Service’s proposed action for renewing the company’s permit to pipe water out of a remote canyon in the San Be ardino Mountains treads on the firm’s long-established water rights and violates state procedures. The firm’s disapproval of the proc...

Saying the drought is far from over, Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Monday that permanently bans water-wasting practices such as hosing off sidewalks and sprinkler runoff, setting in motion a five-year plan that assesses state water supplies in an effort to prepare for continuous water s...

From Earth, the planet Mercury seemingly trudged along Monday as it passed between us and the sun. But the solar system’s small, i ermost planet actually was zooming past at 106,000 mph in a rare event. • Photos: Transit of Mercury at the Griffith Observatory And it did not go u oticed, as crowds fl...

Thousands of Dell laptop computers worth as much as $4 million were stolen in an armed robbery at a warehouse in the Harbor Gateway area, police said Monday. The thefts occurred about 11:30 a.m. Friday at a warehouse in the 19200 block of South Weste Avenue, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Mik...

Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were sentenced Monday to more than a year in federal prison for falsifying reports involving a 2009 beating of a handcuffed inmate. U.S. District Court Judge Beverly Reid O’Co ell sentenced Joey Aguiar to 18 months in prison and Mariano Ramirez to 13 months ...