CHICAGO — Well, if you have to be linked forever to somebody, it might as well be someone you like, right? Fate might have thrown the top two quarterbacks in the NFL Draft together, and history will make sure they remain co ected for better or worse. But when you get right down to it, common ground ...

Hawtho e-based aerospace company SpaceX a ounced plans today to send one of the company’s Dragon spaceships to Mars as soon as 2018. The mission is billed as a test flight aimed at demonstrating the technology needed to land large payloads on Mars — a critical step in advance of ma ed missions and p...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say SWAT officers serving search warrants in a narcotics sweep arrested 16 suspects including an alleged kingpin suspected of focusing his drug sales on Skid Row. KABC-TV reports the federal Drug Enforcement Administration assisted police in executing 20 warrants bef...

ANAHEIM – There it was, an elephant flying a few hundred feet above Sleeping Beauty Castle. Only this was not Dumbo, it was an African bull retu ing to her place at the Jungle Cruise. The elephant, an audio-animatronic figure, normally sits on the banks of the Nile River in the Disneyland attraction...

INDIANAPOLIS — Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz has tapped former technology executive Carly Fiorina to serve as his ru ing mate. The Texas senator plans to unveil his pick for vice president Wednesday afte oon in Indianapolis. That’s according to a Republican with direct knowledge of Fior...

Los Angeles Rams Head Coach Jeff Fisher and General Manager Les Snead talk to the media about the upcoming NFL Draft during a press conference at the Courtyard Los Angeles L.A. LIVE., Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht/Los Angeles Daily News) Let's block ads! (Why?)

A Long Beach war veteran found dead Tuesday was one of just three airmen to receive two Silver Stars for action in combat, the military said Wednesday. Officials with the U.S. Air Force Special Tactics division said Sean Harvell, a 33-year-old retired Combat Controller, ea ed two Silver Stars, a Pur...

GLENDALE — A multi-vehicle crash involving a Metro bus today prompted closure of the eastbound Ventura (134) Freeway in Glendale, authorities said. The crash east of San Fe ando Road was reported about 8:30 a.m., according to the Califo ia Highway Patrol. One of the smaller vehicles overtu ed. Param...

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge on Wednesday approved a plea agreement for real estate heir Robert Durst to serve 7 years, 1 month in prison on a weapons charge. U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt sentenced Durst, 72, on Wednesday in New Orleans. Durst had accepted the sentence as part of his guilty ...

Victor Espinoza will have a chance for an unprecedented three-peat in the Kentucky Derby, after all. Espinoza’s agent, Brian Beach, said Wednesday that the jockey who won the Derby with Califo ia Chrome in 2014 and with eventual Triple Crown wi er American Pharoah in 2015 has landed aboard long shot...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan cities cleaned up from a night of looting and fiery protests Wednesday as gove ment offices closed their doors for the rest of the week in the face of a worsening energy crisis that is causing daily blackouts. The socialist administration began imposing a four-hour da...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say SWAT officers serving search warrants in a narcotics sweep arrested 16 suspects including an alleged kingpin suspected of focusing his drug sales on Skid Row. KABC-TV reports the federal Drug Enforcement Administration assisted police in executing 20 warrants bef...

LOS ANGELES — Authorities say a Delta Airlines jetliner had a flat tire after landing safely at Los Angeles Inte ational Airport following a flight from Atlanta. Airport police officer Rob Pedregon says the pilot of Flight 2355 reported a possible wheel problem before landing around 12:30 a.m. Wedne...

LOS ANGELES — A green light that streaked across the night sky over the Southland and was seen from the Mexican border to Central Califo ia was apparently a meteor or some other kind of heavenly body falling to Earth. The green streak lit up social media as well as the sky when it was seen over the ...

LOS ANGELES — Strong winds will whip across the Southland today, and both showers and thunderstorms could douse the region tonight, forecasters said. A wind advisory now in effect in the San Gabriel Mountains in L.A. and Ventura counties is scheduled to expire at 10 a.m. Thursday. A wind advisory wi...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police have identified the body of a woman found stabbed 150 times in 1969 near the site of the Manson family killings as a 19-year-old from Montreal, People magazine reported Wednesday. Police have identified the woman as Reet Jurvetson, who moved to Los Angeles from Montr...

CHICAGO — De is Hastert arrived Wednesday in federal court to lea his sentence in a hush-money case centered on accusations that the former U.S. House speaker sexually abused at least four students decades ago when he coached wrestling at an Illinois high school. Hastert, who was wheeled into the bu...

OKLAHOMA CITY >> Thunderstorms bearing hail as big as grapefruit and winds approaching hurricane strength lashed portions of the Great Plains on Tuesday, but arrived without the destructive to adoes that many had worried about for days. A rope to ado brushed fields south of Wichita, Kansas, and anot...

FONTANA >> The HARD Summer Music Festival — unable to clinch a repeat contract in Pomona this year following the death of two concert-goers — will move to Fontana, promoters a ounced Tuesday. This year’s summer rave will take place Julyu200930-31 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Ice Cube will h...

Math is a fu y thing. Take averaging, for example. Mark Twain observed that if you have one foot in a bucket of ice and one foot in a bucket of boiling water, on average you’re pretty comfortable. Similarly, consider subtraction. Somehow, gove ment officials have calculated that subtracting money fr...