Two men critically injured in Los Alamitos collision with FedEx delivery van Home → News → Automotive accidents By City News Service LOS ALAMITOS >> Two men were critically injured today in a crash in Los Alamitos involving a pickup truck and a FedEx delivery van. The collision was reported just...

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 — 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 hij...

LOS ANGELES — A 24-year-old woman charged with murder in the death of her grandmother in Bell remained jailed today in lieu of $2 million bail. Sarah Montoya was arrested Wednesday and appeared in a Downey courtroom Friday in co ection with the death of Paula Montoya, whose body was discovered July ...

A downtown Long Beach restaurant and bar was allowed to reopen Saturday night after health inspectors found about 30 live cockroaches throughout the building last week. Cafe Sevilla at 140 Pine Ave., a Spanish restaurant and tapas bar, was closed Wednesday to Saturday, until staff could sanitize the...

DETROIT — Donald Trump is focusing his economic message on boosting jobs and making America more competitive globally by cutting business taxes, reducing regulations and increasing energy production. With a speech Monday to the Detroit Economic Club, the Republican presidential nominee seeks to rese...

A wildfire that ignited in the San Be ardino Mountains on Sunday continued to bu thousands of acres Monday mo ing. The 4,500-acre Pilot fire ignited just after noon east of Highway 138 and south of Hesperia. • PHOTOS: Fight against Pilot fire continues on Day 2 as acreage grows to 4,500 • PHOTOS: 40...

LOS ANGELES — Delta Airlines lifted a ground stop today that was ordered after a power outage in Atlanta wreaked havoc with the company’s computer systems, the airline a ounced. A statement on the airline’s website, posted at 5:40 a.m., said the ground stop “has been lifted and limited departures ar...

Bapu Madhu used to fly model airplanes. Until it got boring. “It’s very mellow. You don’t take risks,” said Madhu, 36, who lives in Hemet. “I mean, what’s the fun in that?” So when he heard about the exploding sport of FPV or “first-person view” drone racing, he leaped at the opportunity to give it ...

CHINO >> Torbjo Correll stepped into the lobby of Southe Califo ia Edison’s aircraft operations — but he’d rather be in the air. “It’s boring being on the ground,” said the director of the little-known aircraft division for the electric utility company. As SCE’s chief pilot, his earthly home base is...

With the po movie-making industry reportedly shrinking in the Sanu2009Fe ando Valley, another — adult novelty manufacturing and distribution — has mushroomed into an economic powerhouse. “It’s the biggest un-talked-about industry in the Valley,” said William W. Roberts, director of the Sanu2009Fe an...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> The nice thing about world records is that they give Katie Ledecky something to compete against. Then again, given that Ledecky owns the fastest half-dozen women’s 400-meter freestyles in history, she’s only really racing herself. “Untouchable,” said Alia Atkinson, Jamaica’s world ...

Ranking top 10 sports events Aug. 8-14 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD Details/TV: At Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, nightly from 8 p.m. to midnight (delayed), Ch. 4 Just to make sure we’ve got all the pre-Rio storylines covered, here’s what we suspect you’ll be most keen on follo...

Ranking top 10 sports events Aug. 8-14 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD Details/TV: At Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, nightly from 8 p.m. to midnight (delayed), Ch. 4 Just to make sure we’ve got all the pre-Rio storylines covered, here’s what we suspect you’ll be most keen on follo...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Katie Ledecky began her bid to sweep three freestyle titles by capturing the Olympic Games 400-meter gold medal with world record destroying performance at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium Sunday night. Ledecky, the Stanford-bound 19-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland, was clocked in 3 m...

What to watch: After wi ing gold for Team USA on Sunday, Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky retu to the pool for competition. The day will also feature swimmer Missy Franklin in the 200 freestyle event. Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams will continue their pursuit for gold in preliminary-rou...

The men and women who make Los Angeles and Long Beach ports hum are keeping close watch on proposed legislation that would further tighten the state’s already restrictive greenhouse gas-emissions rules. The sweeping legislation, which would set aggressive goals to cut climate-warming pollution by 20...

Gov. Jerry Brown has taken the national stage to tout Califo ia’s fight against global warming, telling cheering throngs at the Democratic National Convention that the state has “the toughest climate laws in the country.” Yet inside the state Capitol, the fate of the policy’s centerpiece — legislati...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> They are here, all 10,000-plus of them, because of their skill, drive and, of course, their performance. None of them, however, would be here without one other distinction, one you’d think would be a given until remembering that these are the Olympics, where you don’t have to be a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Three-time doubles gold medalists Serena and Venus Williams lost an Olympic match as partners for the first time, stu ed in the opening round of the Rio de Janeiro Games by the Czech Republic’s Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova 6-3, 6-4. The Williams sisters entered Sunday’s match...