INDIO >> Windy weather that kicked up lots of dust at Coachella Friday started to dissipate Saturday, and experts say it will be even less windy on Sunday. National Weather Service meteorologist Brandt Maxwell said that festival guests will see winds of about 15 mph and gusts of up to 25 mph for the...

LONG BEACH >> After 40 years of thrilling race fans, the final Toyota Pro/Celebrity race in Long Beach went out with one final blockbuster show. There were crashes, a hit tow-truck worker, and doughnuts on Shoreline Drive in the middle of the race, as well as one final checkered flag for accomplishe...

QUITO, Ecuador >> A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador’s central coast on Saturday, cracking buildings and rattling homes as far away as the capital of Quito. The U.S. Geological Survey said the shallow quake was centered 27 kilometers (16 miles) south-southeast of Muisne, Ecuador, in ...

INDIO >> Run the Jewels’ performance had just about everything a Coachella festival-goer could want. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Be ie Sanders introduced the hip-hop group in a prerecorded video and Nas, DJ Shadow, Gangsta Boo and Gary Clark Jr. all made guest appearances during the Satur...

LONG BEACH >> Team Penske is one-up on Chip Ganassi Racing. For now. Helio Castroneves won his second consecutive IndyCar pole at the 42nd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in front of a large crowd on a warm, su y Saturday afte oon. Scott Dixon, who races for Ganassi, will be beside him when the gree...

INDIO >> Ice Cube would be important musically even without being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of legendary gangsta rap group N.W.A. His first five solo albums from 1990-1998 sold more than one million copies each with his 1992 effort “The Predator” (featuring the single ...

LONG BEACH >> After 40 years of thrilling race fans, the final Toyota Pro/Celebrity race in Long Beach went out with one final blockbuster show. There were crashes, a hit tow-truck worker, and doughnuts on Shoreline Drive in the middle of the race, as well as one final checkered flag for accomplishe...

Coachella campers, please stop trying to send in your tax retu s through the Coachella campground’s post office. At least 10 people tried in the first day of the a ual music festival, according to Megan Hampton, the tiny post office’s quasi-post master. “No, I can’t ‘just take it’,” Hampton said. “H...

LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy played an engaging set of songs that he admitted were the result of him shutting up and playing the hits. “We made a deal I wouldn’t talk as much so we could play more songs,” Murphy said to the main Coachella stage audience during the latter half of the set. “S...

As if Axl Rose’s broken foot wasn’t enough of a pain. According to TMZ, the Guns N’ Roses tour bus broke down Friday in Fontana. • Related: 3 questions Guns N’ Roses will answer at the festival There apparently weren’t any band members on the bus at the time but the delay probably wasn’t the best st...

Sport Chalet a ounced on Saturday that it is closing all of its stores and has stopped selling goods online. • PHOTOS: Sport Chalet going out of business “While our online store is no longer available, all Sport Chalet stores will remain open for several weeks, offering customers the opportunity to ...

Sports Chalet a ounced on Saturday that it is closing all of its stores and has stopped selling goods online. • PHOTOS: Sports Chalet going out of business “While our online store is no longer available, all Sport Chalet stores will remain open for several weeks, offering customers the opportunity t...

LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy played an engaging set of songs that he admitted were the result of him shutting up and playing the hits. “We made a deal I wouldn’t talk as much so we could play more songs,” Murphy said to the main Coachella stage audience during the latter half of the set. “S...

For some people, the second day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has the potential to be the best day as the reunion of legendary hard rock group Guns N’ Roses tops the bill. The Los Angeles rockers, set to feature the reunion of singer Axl Rose, guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKag...

For some people, the second day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has the potential to be the best day as the reunion of legendary hard rock group Guns N’ Roses tops the bill. The Los Angeles rockers, set to feature the reunion of singer Axl Rose, guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKag...

LOS ANGELES — Hillary Clinton fired up supporters today at Los Angeles Southwest College, part of a daylong swing through Los Angeles that will also see her raise funds for her presidential campaign, including a $33,400 per person event at the home of George Clooney. The former secretary of state hi...

NORWALK >> Deputies are seeking a woman who shot and wounded a man along Pioneer Boulevard in Norwalk early Saturday, officials said. Deputies were called at 12:42 a.m. to a shooting in the 14000 block of Pioneer Boulevard, just north of Rosemead Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Anthony Fe andez sa...

Guns N’ Roses, one of the most epic rock bands of the 20th century, has reunited and will play to an audience of up to 99,000 people at the sold-out Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Saturday, April 16. And while the band has played a couple of shows alread...

A Long Beach City Council candidate ru ing in the 6th District said he believes the incumbent councilman’s supporters improperly flooded the area with Election Day advertising by posting campaign signs on public property. “It was just blatant and egregious. I made multiple calls to the City Clerk’s ...

Staff and news services The Association of Zoos and Aquariums has granted accreditation to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro. “Only zoos and aquariums that meet the highest standards are accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums,” said AZA interim President and CEO Kris Vehrs. To e...