There’s not a week that goes by without E esto Nuno hearing about a motorcyle accident. Bent forks. Broken radiators. The technician at Long Beach Motorcycle Repair near 4th Street and Alamitos Avenue has repaired all ma er of busted up bikes. “I’ve just been lucky so far,” Nuno said of not getting ...

Michael Hegarty rang a bell on his bicycle as he rode across East Broadway at Atlantic Avenue one afte oon in late April. He has cycled around Long Beach since the 1970s, and said with the streets now much more congested, those on bikes need to be extra cautious when criss-crossing the city. Hegarty...

Parked along Pine Avenue on a recent mo ing, Ray Quihuiz took a break from his chauffeur job, waiting for his clients to retu as pedestrians ambled through nearby crosswalks. Asked about walkers and what some of their bad habits are, Quihuiz didn’t hesitate. “The main thing is, they’re crossing when...

ARCADIA >> Beholder, a three-time Eclipse Awards wi er, was supposed to be long gone by now. She was scheduled to run in the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Distaff as a 4-year-old and then ride off into the sunset to have baby Beholders. Then the merry-go-round began. Beholder missed the Breeders’ Cup when she ...

For many Inland voters, the reward for doing one’s civic duty is best delivered adhesively. Oval and emblazoned with the American flag, “I Voted” stickers have evolved from a simple thank you to an Election Day status symbol capable of boosting egos and cajoling others into casting a ballot. “I beli...

Riverside resident Pat Oren regularly checks her property and dumps any standing water she finds, even in flower pots. While she was growing up on a ranch in Fresno County, the mosquitoes that bred in irrigation ditches and river bottoms covered her with bites and made her a self-described “mosquito...

Officers shot and killed a man in Long Beach after someone reported he was holding a sub-machine gun, which tu ed out to be an Airsoft rifle missing any markings, police said Sunday. Lionel Gibson, 21, of Long Beach was shot by police just before 5 p.m. Saturday in the area of 21st Street and Locust...

Eager voters get their first crack at casting ballots today — as early as 7:30 a.m. in some Southe Califo ia counties — though enthusiasm among Republicans may be diminished now that Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee and faces no competition. Los Angeles County Republican Party Chairman Mark V...

Today’s Mailbag, after we dumped all the belated notes that are still trickling in from Texas apologists, is entirely full of responses from our increasingly large and loyal Floridian readership. Our recent column about Gov. Rick Scott’s trade mission to Califo ia, in which the horrible little man t...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The northe Mexico prison where authorities suddenly transferred convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is rated as the worst in the federal penitentiary system for inmate conditions and other factors, according to the gove ment's own reporting. The Cefereso No. 9 facility o...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What superhero fatigue? Disney and Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War," the 13th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has strong-armed its way to becoming the fifth-highest domestic opening ever according to comScore estimates Sunday. The film grossed a massive $181.8 million ...

NEW YORK >> Nursing homes are increasingly evicting their most challenging residents, testing protections for some of society’s most vulnerable, advocates for the aged and disabled say. Those targeted for eviction are frequently poor and suffering from dementia, with families unsure of what to do, a...

LOS ANGELES >> The Be ie Sanders campaign is stepping up its efforts to win over Latino voters in Los Angeles as the Califo ia primary nears. On Saturday night, actors Rosario Dawson and Luis Guzmán hosted a pro-Sanders panel discussion called “The New American Majority: A Conversation on Latinos, S...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for an investigation into an incident in which the wrong name was printed beneath a yearbook photo of a Muslim student at Los Osos High School. Bayan Zehlif, a Muslim student who wears a hijab, found her photo in the school yea...

NEW YORK >> Nursing homes are increasingly evicting their most challenging residents, testing protections for some of society’s most vulnerable, advocates for the aged and disabled say. Those targeted for eviction are frequently poor and suffering from dementia, with families unsure of what to do, a...

WANDERING RIVER, Alberta (AP) — The images are ones of devastation — scorched homes, virtually whole neighborhoods bu ed to the ground. It began to rain a little Sunday mo ing just south of Fort McMurray, but Canadian officials say they expect to fight the massive wildfire that has destroyed large p...

TRENTON, N.J. >> Someone is holding onto the sole wi ing Powerball ticket that was sold in New Jersey and is worth $429.6 million, lottery officials said Sunday. Only one ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing, said Powerball spokeswoman Kelly Cripe. The wi ing Powerball numbers ...

BEIJING >> Rescuers on Sunday searched for 33 construction workers missing in a landslide at the site of a hydropower project following days of heavy rain in southe China. Eight other workers were pulled out alive, officials and state-run media reported. Rocks and mud with a volume of 100,000 cubic ...

BAGHDAD >> For nearly two years, U.S. airstrikes, military advisers and weapons shipments have helped Iraqi forces roll back the Islamic State group. The U.S.-led coalition has carried out more than 5,000 airstrikes against IS targets in Iraq at a total cost of $7 billion since August 2014, includin...

LAC LA BICHE, Alberta — The images are ones of devastation — scorched homes, virtually whole neighborhoods bu ed to the ground. And Canadian officials say they expect to fight the massive wildfire that has destroyed large parts of Alberta’s oil sands town for months. There’s fear the growing wildfir...