WASHINGTON — With the Obama administration counting down its final year, many Democrats are finding less to like about the president’s health care law, unsure about its place among their party’s achievements. Sen. Be ie Sanders’ call for “Medicare for all” seems to have rekindled aspirations for big...

WHITTIER — A car crashed into a home in an unincorporated area near Whittier this mo ing, injuring a young boy and a teenager, and Califo ia Highway Patrol officers were searching for the hit-and-run driver. The car crashed into a house at the intersection of Imperial Highway and Marquardt Avenue ab...

RALEIGH, N.C. >> A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights laws and can’t be enforced, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday, putting the state on notice that it is in danger of being sued and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding...

LOS ANGELES >> A Downey man who falsely certified that beef being sold by his employer was free of E. coli — which later proved to be false — faces a federal prison term when he is sentenced today. Jim Johnson, 68, who worked as a consultant to the now-defunct Huntington Meat Packing Co., pleaded gu...

What some are calling “the Big Bu ” — the long-anticipated restart of the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance — will begin sometime after 7 p.m. Saturday and before 7 a.m. Sunday, city officials a ounced Wednesday evening. Refinery contractors on Wednesday began to notify residents and businesses within...

What: A package of three legislative bills dealing with licensing and regulating commercial medical marijuana cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, sales and testing • AB 243: Requires departments of food and agriculture; pesticide regulation; public health; fish and wildlife; an...

Former President Bill Clinton made the case for sending his wife to the Oval Office during a speech in Los Angeles on Wednesday that referred to the San Be ardino terrorist attack and avoided direct attacks against Republican Donald Trump. Clinton spoke to a crowd of cheering supporters at the Garde...

So much for the pivotal Califo ia primary. With John Kasich and Ted Cruz withdrawing from the Republican presidential race, it all but guarantees that Donald Trump, who cruised to victory in Indiana on Tuesday, will be the GOP’s White House nominee. In Califo ia, it dashes the hopes of political jun...

What some are calling “the Big Bu ” — the long-anticipated restart of the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance — will begin sometime after 7 p.m. Saturday and before 7 a.m. Sunday, city officials a ounced Thursday evening. Refinery contractors Thursday began to notify residents and businesses within one ...

A group of Cambodian-Americans dedicated to remembering the victims of the Killing Fields now has a green light to transform a vacant Long Beach lot into a memorial garden honoring the millions who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. “We’re never going to forget the victims. Our brothers, our sist...

SEAL BEACH >> The mystery of John Do elly’s death is growing. This week friends of the Seal Beach local who died in a fire early Saturday mo ing — a former special-education teacher they described as dedicated to helping veterans and animals — said they can’t think of anyone who would want to kill h...

As much as we try to dodge the issue of full disclosure in all of our endeavors, we don’t think we can get away with writing in favor of a temporary increase in the sales tax in Long Beach without noting that our wife is an employee of the city and therefore we are steadfastly in favor of bloated ci...

A video from a late-night TV show featuring six Southe Califo ia climate scientists speaking in plain language about the reality of climate change — some using bleeped out profanity to underscore their message — has gone viral. The video that aired during Monday night’s episode of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimme...

Despite some successes, homelessness continued to increase across Los Angeles County this year, with more people sleeping on sidewalks, in washes, tents or their cars, according to a report released Wednesday. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority estimates that the county has 46,874 homeless ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nyquist has been made the early 3-1 favorite for the 142nd Kentucky Derby, with Exaggerator the second choice in the full field of 20 horses. Trained by Doug O’Neill, Nyquist is undefeated in seven career races. The colt drew the No. 13 post on Wednesday. Four horses have won from ...

The 25-year-old mother of two young sons, including a toddler who was allegedly murdered by her live-in boyfriend in Signal Hill, pleaded no contest today to a pair of felony child abuse counts. Jessica Cereceres was immediately sentenced to five years and four months in state prison and ordered to ...

Welcome to battleground state status, Califo ia Democrats. If, at least, for a little while. Just hours after Indiana sent Sen. Ted Cruz packing and Gov. John Kasich called it quits, essentially making Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee for president, the Democrats find they have a fron...

Despite some successes, homelessness continued to increase across Los Angeles County this year, with more people sleeping on sidewalks, in washes, tents or their cars, according to a report released Wednesday. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority estimates that the county has 46,874 homeless ...

LOS ANGELES — Cooler temperatures, cloudy skies and even a misty drizzle greeted Southland residents today, and more of the same is expected into tomorrow, when a low-pressure system moves in and brings a chance of rain into the weekend. An onshore flow brought cloudy skies into the area ove ight, a...

This Sunday marked five years since a team of US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden during a CIA-led raid on the al-Qaeda leader’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The agency celebrated by tweeting details about the raid as though it were happening live. One person whose name didn’t make it into the...