RIO DE JANEIRO — Diana Taurasi and the U.S. women’s basketball team opened their Olympics with a record rout. The Americans were not expected to be challenged on Sunday by Senegal, and the only real suspense was how many records they would set. When it ended, they had set three Olympic marks: Points...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Team USA posted the highest Olympic Games qualifying round score by nearly 10 points as Simone Biles also kept her bid to become the first woman gymnast to win five gold medals in a single Olympics. A U.S. athlete posted the highest score on all four events to post a total score of...

How you can help the family of Carina Mancera, 26, and Je abel Anaya, 4, who were shot to death in front of their downtown Long Beach home Saturday night. Donate Friends and family set up a Go Fund Me page to help pay funeral costs. As of Sunday afte oon, donors had already contributed close to $3,0...

A woman and her 4-year-old daughter were shot to death in downtown Long Beach late Saturday night as they retu ed home from grocery shopping. Police said Sunday that officers responded to the area of Locust Avenue and E. 9th Street at about 10:20 p.m., and found the woman and girl had been shot by a...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky devoured the Olympic Games 400-meter freestyle record for lunch Sunday afte oon. The question now is what will she do for a late-night snack? Ledecky swam 3 minutes, 58.71 seconds in wi ing her qualifying heat at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium Sunday despit...

NORWALK >> A Norwalk man shot and wounded a knife-wielding intruder who broke into his home while his family was inside early Sunday, officials said. The break-in and shooting took place about 2:30 a.m. at a house in the 14400 block of Graystone Avenue, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Rene Garcia ...

A man was stabbed to death and another man was injured in a gang-related fight in the Cambodia Town area of Long Beach Saturday night, police said Sunday. Officers were called to the area of Anaheim Street and Molino Avenue at about 6:20 p.m. and discovered two men who had been stabbed, according to...

A 26-year-old woman and her 4-year-old daughter were killed in a shooting in the downtown area of Long Beach late Saturday night, authorities said today. Police said Sunday that officers responded to the area of Locust Avenue and E. 9th Street at about 10:20 p.m., and found the woman and girl had be...

SAN PEDRO >> The bodies of a woman and a man were found Sunday at the base of a cliff in San Pedro. Police were dispatched to the scene at 10:16 a.m. on a report of a citizen discovering two bodies near the area of South Parker Street and West Paseo Del Mar, according to a police office at the Los A...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Diana Taurasi got the U.S. women’s basketball team off and ru ing and their Olympic newcomers carried them the rest of the way to an easy rout in record fashion. Taurasi hit three 3-pointers in the first few minutes and the Americans beat Senegal 121-56 on Sunday in their Olympic o...

LONG BEACH >> A 26-year-old woman and her young daughter were killed in a shooting in the downtown area of Long Beach late Saturday night, authorities said today. A coroner’s representative was sent sometime after 2 a.m. Sunday to East Ninth Street and Locust Avenue, where the woman was pronounced d...

OTISFIELD, Maine >> The nation’s divide has become bad enough that a camp created to help Arab and Israeli teens find common ground is putting an emphasis on hatred and violence in the U.S. Officials at Seeds of Peace, a lakeside camp in the woods of Maine, thought things were bad when they made the...

LONG BEACH >> A 26-year-old woman was shot dead and a 3-year-old girl was fatally wounded in a shooting in Long Beach, the Coroner’s Office said Sunday. A coroner’s representative was sent sometime after 2 a.m. to East Ninth Street and Locust Avenue, where the woman was pronounced dead at the scene,...

NBC 10 a.m. – Noon Women’s Beach Volleyball – Fendrick/Sweat (U.S.) vs. Kolosinska/Brzostek (Poland) (LIVE) Rowing – Qualifying Heats (LIVE) Women’s Cycling – Road Race (LIVE) Noon – 3 p.m. Women’s Cycling – Road Race (LIVE) Swimming – Qualifying Heats (LIVE) 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Canoe/Kayak – Whitewa...

Nearly two decades ago, the operator of a garbage dump near the village of Val Verde promised the landfill would close by 2019, or when the trash pile hit a certain limit. Now environmental groups and residents say the Chiquita Canyon Landfill, located less than a mile south of the unincorporated to...

The Long Beach community has lost an iconic aquatics figure with the death of legendary water polo coach Monte Nitzkowski at the age of 86. The Huntington Beach native, who died July 28, spent most of his life in Long Beach, coaching and mentoring dozens of water polo Olympians from the city. He coa...

What to watch: The United States women’s gymnastics team begin 2016 Olympics competition that will feature Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles and Aly Raisman. The U.S. women’s basketball team led by Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird, will play Senegal in a Group B preliminary round game. The team will look to hav...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Sam Mikulak isn’t a scoreboard watcher. Yet if the U.S. gymnast had allowed himself a glimpse of the giant video screens high above Rio Olympic Arena after the first four of six rotations in the second sub-division of the Olympic Games men’s team qualifying round Saturday, he would...

When Venus Williams pushed one last forehand long to lose in the first round for the first time in her record five Olympic singles tou aments, her opponent, Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium dropped down on the green hard court to plant a kiss on the Olympic logo. Just two points away from wi ing on four ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Brazil was letting him hear it now, the boos descending from above as surely as the gaze does from that nearby statue Christ the Redeemer. Of course, this was beach volleyball, which is something of a religion around here, too. So, for his Games debut Saturday, Casey Patterson expe...