FIRESTONE PARK — A man was shot and killed today in unincorporated Firestone Park, north of Watts, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported. Responding to a call about a gunshot victim in the 1900 block of Firestone Boulevard about 1:40 a.m., officers found a man on the ground suffering ...

LOS ANGELES — Students tussled with adult demonstrators outside a Los Angeles high school that recently opened a gender-neutral bathroom. KABC-TV reports that a small crowd gathered Tuesday across from Santee Education Complex hoisting signs and chanting slogans protesting the new bathroom. Los Ange...

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST >> From its large nest atop an aged tree on the weste edge of San Gabriel Reservoir, the juvenile bald eagle squirmed, letting out a wa ing cry. The message scared away the menacing turkey vulture. But instead of a fight call, perhaps it was a lament intended for absent paren...

Bad drivers ea ed more citations this year than last, and Long Beach police made two felony arrests over the 42nd a ual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend. During race weekend, which drew an estimated 182,000 attendees, police issued nine traffic citations, compared to none in 2015, and the fou...

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST >> From its large nest atop an aged tree on the weste edge of San Gabriel Reservoir, the juvenile bald eagle squirmed, letting out a wa ing cry. The message scared away the menacing turkey vulture. But instead of a fight call, perhaps it was a lament intended for absent paren...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Dwayne “Pearl” Washington, who went from New York City playground wonder to Big East star for Jim Boeheim at Syracuse, has died. He was 52. Washington died Wednesday of cancer, the university said. He had been coping with medical problems since a brain tumor was first diagnosed in 1...

Donald Trump did not have a high opinion of the 2012 Republican convention in Tampa. “The single most boring convention I’ve ever seen,” he told the Washington Post. “It’s very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep,” the GOP frontru er explained. ...

The times are rapidly changing — for the better, at least — in terms of ozone pollution for the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. But despite improvements, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside region is the top ozone polluted area in the country, according to the American Lung Association’s Sta...

Donald Trump did not have a high opinion of the 2012 Republican convention in Tampa. “The single most boring convention I’ve ever seen,” he told the Washington Post. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has his own problems. He’s pla ing for a convention that may not nominate Trump....

NEW YORK >> Front-ru ers Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton swept to resounding victories in Tuesday’s New York primary, with Trump bouncing back from a difficult stretch in his Republican campaign and Clinton pushing tantalizingly close to locking up the Democratic nomination. “The race for the nomin...

NASHVILLE >> No griping or whining at the officials. No retaliatory or antagonistic pokes or chops at their combatants. No baffling breakdowns in their own zone. It was just about playing hockey for the Ducks and they tu ed in a masterful Game 3 on Tuesday night, fulfilling their intent to make it a...

The Port of Long Beach has started to study the feasibility of shipping more of its incoming cargo to the Inland Empire by short-haul rail. A train double-stacked with shipping containers could take about 750 truck trips off the highway, said Michael Christensen, the port’s senior executive lead for...

NEW YORK >> Front-ru ers Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton swept to resounding victories in Tuesday’s New York primary, with Trump bouncing back from a difficult stretch in his Republican campaign and Clinton pushing tantalizingly close to locking up the Democratic nomination. “The race for the nomin...

By Larry Altman larry.altman@langnews.com @larryaltman on Twitter Rescuers searched into the night Tuesday for a 25-year-old swimmer reported missing off the coast of Manhattan Beach, authorities said. The unidentified man was went missing about 5:10 p.m. near the 18th Street lifeguard tower, firefi...

NEW YORK >> Front-ru ers Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton swept to resounding victories in Tuesday’s New York primary, with Trump bouncing back from a difficult stretch in his Republican campaign and Clinton pushing tantalizingly close to locking up the Democratic nomination. “The race for the nomin...

COMMERCE >> The board of the Central Basin Municipal Water District, the water agency that serves millions of people in a region stretching southeast in Los Angeles County from Ve on to La Mirada, lost its insurance after years of chaotic management and is now trying to get that coverage back. A sta...

After more than four decades, San Pedro’s 3.5-acre science center is looking for a new identity. A science and technology magnet? Or how about a hub for the popular Wildlife Lea ing Center that visits hundreds of thousands of students each year with their exotic animals? Recommendations could be nar...

NEW YORK >> The Latest on campaign 2016 as voters in New York cast their ballots in the state’s primary (all times Easte Daylight Time): 9:47 p.m. Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic presidential primary in New York, which she represented in the U.S. Senate for eight years. Clinton beat out rival...

NEW YORK >> The Latest on campaign 2016 as voters in New York cast their ballots in the state’s primary (all times Easte Daylight Time): 9:47 p.m. Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic presidential primary in New York, which she represented in the U.S. Senate for eight years. Clinton beat out rival...

The Port of Long Beach has started to study the feasibility of shipping more of its incoming cargo to the Inland Empire by short-haul rail. A train double-stacked with shipping containers could take about 750 truck trips off the highway, said Michael Christensen, the port’s senior executive lead for...