LOS ANGELES — Donald Trump, the outsider, is making his case to Califo ia’s Republican establishment after he kicked off his crucial campaign for the state’s presidential primary with a rally marred by confrontations between protesters and his supporters on the streets. The front-ru er and his two r...

A reader submitted this adorable photo of a seal pup that wandered up Main Street in Seal Beach this week. An officer and lifeguard stood guard until the pup was rescued by the Pacific Marine Mammal Center. We have a call in police to see how the pup is doing, and will update when we know more. Stev...

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea on Friday sentenced a U.S. citizen of Korean heritage to 10 years in prison with hard labor after convicting him of espionage and subversion, the second American it has put behind bars this year. Kim Dong Chul was sentenced after a brief trial in Pyongyang by Nor...

LOS ANGELES — Donald Trump, the outsider, is making his case to Califo ia’s Republican establishment after he kicked off his crucial campaign for the state’s presidential primary with an enormous rally marred by confrontations between protesters and his supporters on the streets. The front-ru er and...

DOMINGUEZ HILLS — A 35-year-old man was fatally struck by a car as he walked along a San Diego (405) Freeway offramp in the Dominguez Hills area, the Califo ia Highway Patrol reported today. The man was hit on the Avalon Boulevard offramp from the northbound 405 Freeway about 11:45 p.m. Thursday, CH...

NEWPORT BEACH - A 51-year-old man who fell from the cliffs at Corona Del Mar State Beach in Newport Beach was identified today by the Orange County coroner’s office. David Kirkendall of Lakewood fell from the cliffs just about 4:25 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the coroner’s office. Kirkendall was t...

The arrests of the San Be ardino terrorist attackers’ relatives Thursday has once again shaken up a Corona neighborhood. Five months after Syed Rizwan Farook and his Pakistani emigrant wife, Tashfeen Malik, launched their Dec. 2 attack, his brother, Navy veteran Syed Raheel Farook, the brother’s wif...

A five-count federal indictment alleges a web of conspiracy and lies to cover up an alleged sham marriage between a Russian woman and a Riverside man who is charged with conspiracy and supplying two assault-type rifles used in the Dec. 2 terrorist massacre in San Be ardino. The charges, filed secret...

Republican presidential front-ru er Donald Trump brought his message of political indignation to a packed house at Costa Mesa’s 8,000-seat Pacific Amphitheatre on Thursday and was welcomed by a cheering crowd for providing an alte ative to the status quo. Within minutes of taking the stage to kick o...

Demonstrators jumped on a Costa Mesa police car, breaking out the windows and attempting to tu it over, as tensions escalated after a Donald Trump rally on Thursday night. Orange County sheriff’s deputies were threatening to arrest hundreds of people who filled an intersection chanting, “Whose stree...

As the seconds before the NFL draft’s top pick ticked off in Microsoft Square, a sea of yellow and blue buzzing with two decades’ worth of anticipation for pro football settled into a quiet hum. Nearly 4,000 had come to wait for these final moments, for the promise of new quarterback for their new R...

While Enrique Marquez Jr.’s Russian wife appeared before a judge Thursday, April 28, he remained in a federal detention center waiting for his next day in court. Mariya Che ykh, a 26-year-old Ontario resident, made her first appearance in the same federal court where her husband has appeared. She wa...

Police in riot gear worked to separate a growing crowd of Donald Trump protesters from supporters still trying to get into the packed Pacific Amphitheatre minutes before the Republican presidential candidate was scheduled to make his first primary campaign speech in Califo ia. About three dozen anti...

The family ties of one of the slain shooters in the San Be ardino terrorist massacre sent the dead man’s brother, the brother’s Russian wife and her sister to federal court Thursday as they faced charges of setting up a sham marriage aimed at keeping the sister in the United States. Syed Raheel Faro...

Seal Beach police are looking for a man they say tried to lure a girl into his truck. The victim’s age was not disclosed by police to protect her privacy. The incident happened around 2:45 p.m. April 15 when the man approached the girl as she walked to her residence on the 200 block of 16th Street. ...

Southe Califo ia may be synonymous with traffic, but Long Beach is gaining clout for its burgeoning walking culture. The city was named the 10th most walkable city in the United States by a residential real estate company and is the only Southe Califo ia city to make the Top 10 this year. “Recognizi...

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will likely be able to continue growing despite the soon-to-be-completed Panama Canal expansion and last year’s labor strife that diverted cargo away from West Coast, according to real estate firm CBRE. But the East and Gulf coasts are gaining clout. Whereas W...

A Gardena pimp could face the rest of his life in prison for trafficking seven girls who worked as prostitutes, forcing some of them through beatings and whippings, prosecutors said Thursday. Laron Darrell Carter, also known as “Birdd,” “Pimpin’ Bird” and “Pi Birdd,” was found guilty in U.S. Distric...

NOVATO -- Someone ought to wa Jared Goff’s future neighbors in Los Angeles about his celebrations. After some Cal road victories, the quarterback would get home at 3 a.m., crank up the music and order his slumbering roommates to come join the fun. After home games, it was a live show: Goff was known...

RIVERSIDE >> Three suspects arrested Thursday in a federal sham-marriage case related to the San Be ardino terror attack pleaded not guilty in federal court in Riverside. The brother and sister-in-law of the San Be ardino terror shooter, Syed Rizwan Farook, and the wife of Farook’s friend, Enrique M...