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

With all eyes of the horse racing world squarely on Louisville and Saturday’s 142nd Kentucky Derby, Santa Anita Park kicks off its 40-day spring meet Thursday with an eight-race program that features the $200,000 Grade II Royal Heroine Stakes for older fillies and mares on the turf. First post will ...

Welcome to battleground state status, Califo ia Democrats. If, at least, for a little while. On the mo ing after Indiana sent Sen. Ted Cruz packing and essentially made Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee for president, the Democrats find they have a frontru er who is being chased by a c...

INDIANAPOLIS — Ohio Gov. John Kasich is leaving the Republican presidential contest, giving Donald Trump a clear path to his party’s nomination. Kasich will a ounce the end of his underdog White House bid on Wednesday, according to three campaign officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity bec...

MINNEAPOLIS — Prince’s representatives arranged for the musician to meet a Califo ia doctor to help him kick an addiction to painkillers shortly before his death, according to a newspaper report published Wednesday. Prince’s representatives called Dr. Howard Ko feld on April 20, the day before the m...

LOS ANGELES — Eddie Murphy is now a father of nine. Murphy’s publicist says the 55-year-old actor and his 36-year-old girlfriend Paige Butcher have welcomed their first child together, Izzy Oona Murphy. The baby girl was bo Tuesday mo ing. Publicist A old Robinson says both mother and daughter are d...

LOS ANGELES — Sempra Energy said today its latest estimate of the costs incurred by its SoCalGas subsidiary as a result of the Aliso Canyon gas leak is $665 million dollars. “Concurrently, the company has recorded an insurance receivable of $660 million,” the company said in a statement reporting it...

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...

MINNEAPOLIS — Prince’s representatives arranged for the musician to meet a Califo ia doctor to help him kick an addiction to painkillers shortly before his death, according to a newspaper report published Wednesday. Prince’s representatives called Dr. Howard Ko feld on April 20, the day before the m...

INDIANAPOLIS — Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nomination virtually in hand, is signaling a new phase of his outsider campaign, searching for a ru ing mate who could help him gove and reaching out to one-time competitors in an effort to heal the fractured Republican Party. On that, though, there ...

SAN FRANCISCO >> Backers of a marijuana legalization initiative say they have collected enough signatures for the measure to qualify for the Califo ia ballot this November. A coalition that includes former Facebook President Sean Parker and backed by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the nation’s leading ma...

INDIANAPOLIS >> In a stu ing triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race and cleared Trump’s path to a likely November face-off with Democratic front-ru...

Long Beach police are investigating a non-fatal shooting in the MacArthur Park neighborhood that left one man injured shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday. Officers were dispatched at 1:59 a.m. to a shooting call in the 1500 block of Walnut Avenue, said Sgt. Bradley Johnson, a police spokesman, in an email...

Police are investigating a fatal shooting Tuesday night near Ramona Park in North Long Beach. Officers responded to a shooting call around 6:50 p.m. in the 3300 block of E. 65th Street, said Lt. Kerry Giesige, a watch commander with the Long Beach Police Department. At the scene, police found a 16-y...

Fallen first responders remembered at Long Beach ceremony Police officers perform a ceremonial flag folding during a memorial tribute in Long Beach, CA, on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. (Photo by Scott Varley, Southe Califo ia News Group) By Long Beach Press-Telegram Police and fire departments held Tuesday...

Donald Trump’s entrance to the Califo ia Republican Party convention wasn’t the most awkward moment at the afte oon event. “We went under a fence and through a fence and, oh boy, it felt like I was crossing the border, actually,” he told the sold-out luncheon audience of 600. “But I got here.” Outsi...

We’ve been told to “get ready to rock.” That makes it sound so easy. Used to be we got ready to rock by slipping into a pair of jeans and a T-shirt and dipping into a $10 bag of ditchweed. But now, we decades-long fans of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Neil Young, Roger Waters and Bob ...

INDIANAPOLIS >> In a stu ing triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race and cleared Trump’s path to a likely November face-off with Democratic front-ru...

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia unveiled plans Tuesday for how City Hall may spend $150 million or so on street repairs and other infrastructure projects if voters agree to pass a sales tax increase in June. In terms of infrastructure, “this is the most investment that would happen in the city in a g...

A Long Beach man received what City Prosecutor Doug Haubert on Tuesday said was likely the longest misdemeanor domestic violence sentence in city history. Gary Steven McJimsey, 36, was sentenced to eight years in county jail after a jury convicted him of battering two women, threatening them multipl...