The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach gets officially underway Friday, but the unofficial start happens the days before with Roar in the Shore, the Miss Toyota Grand Prix pageant and Thunder Thursday. ROAR IN THE SHORE Residents will definitely hear some noise coming from Belmont Shore from 5 to 8 p.m...

Do the math, even though math is hard. You get about 180,000 people going to the Grand Prix each year. Figure, generously, and to make the math easier, that 100,000 are from Long Beach. Last time we counted, there were 470,000 people living in Long Beach. That means 370,000 Long Beachers aren’t atte...

I stood in the sporting goods store staring at rows and rows of baseball gloves giving anything not to be there because it would mean my friend wasn’t dead. John Le was my buddy from Blessed Sacrament School. Between fifth grade and eighth grade, we bonded over sports. It was always about sports wit...

A producer of the “Gilmore Girls” is suing over plans to revive the series for a short run on the streaming service Netflix. Producer Gavin Polone filed a lawsuit against Wa er Bros. Television Production Inc. on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging he is owed nearly $200,000 for the upcomi...

Jury selection began Monday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom in the trial of a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of beating three inmates multiple times and falsifying reports. Jermaine W. Jackson, who was a deputy at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, faces nine c...

In 2014, for the first time since lead testing began in the 1990s, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Plant No. 1 violated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s action-level for lead in drinking water with a reading of 16 parts per billion (ppb). A small team of LADWP employees live on s...

INDIO >> The Indio City Council has approved gradually increasing the capacity of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Stagecoach Country Music Festival. Goldenvoice will be able to add 26,000 people to the capacity of each Coachella weekend, bringing the total to 125,000, and 10,000 to ...

When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 16, with Finley’s talk at 11 a.m. Where: Crescent Farm at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia Admission: $4-$9. Free to members and children younger than 5. Information: 626-821-3222. www.arboretum.org. It’s a warm and su y ...

It’s April in Long Beach, which means the city’s biggest event has arrived. The 42nd a ual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach runs Friday to Sunday, featuring the third round of the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series. The featured race is Sunday afte oon’s Verizon IndyCar Series event, which includes an inte ...

The way to get to the Dodgers has always been through Vin Scully. The City of Los Angeles literally made that so Monday. Elysian Park Avenue street signs came down and city workers replaced them in the mo ing with blue Vin Scully Avenue signs at the intersections of Sunset Boulevard and, further up ...

Long Beach City Clerk Maria de la Luz Garcia has spent the last several weeks involved in efforts to get Long Beachers to participate in what will be her first election with the city. “We want to make sure the voters in Long Beach are vocal and they are voting in the local election,” she said. There...

SACRAMENTO — Califo ia’s Democratic gove or is increasing the amount of pay employers must give workers who take time off to care for their family. Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB908 Monday to update the state’s paid family leave law, saying he wants to create a “more decent and empathetic kind of commun...

It’s April in Long Beach, which means the city’s biggest event has arrived. The 42nd a ual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach runs Friday to Sunday, featuring the third round of the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series. The featured race is Sunday afte oon’s Verizon IndyCar Series event, which includes an inte ...

A Los Angeles man is facing a felony robbery charge stemming from an incident in early March in downtown Long Beach. Urbin Lee Miller, 41, was charged Thursday for the crime on March 2 in the area of Pine Avenue and Third Street, police said in a statement Monday. Miller is accused of accosting a bu...

To get a sense of just how small krill are, know this: Each blue whale needs to eat 40 million krill every single day to survive. Antarctic krill, tiny shrimplike crustaceans, are a key part of the ocean’s food chain for whales, penguins and seals. Increasingly, krill have also become part of the hu...

L.A. Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully was honored today with a street named after him. Elysian Park Avenue is now Vin Scully Avenue, leading to Dodgers Stadium, which hosts the team’s home opener on Tuesday. • Photos: Vin Scully Avenue is dedicated in front of Dodger Stadium And Scully, whose 67 seaso...

What’s been touted as the kickoff party for the 42nd a ual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach — one of them, anyway — happens Wednesday. The Miss Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Finals is at 7 p.m. on April 13 at Hotel Maya-Vista Del Mar. In years past, the pageant was part of Thunder Thursday in downt...

PARIS >> The number of people linked to the Islamic State network that attacked Paris and Brussels reaches easily into the dozens, with a series of new arrests over the weekend that confirmed the cell’s toxic reach and ability to move around u oticed in Europe’s criminal underworld. From Belgium’s M...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. >> To astronomers’ relief, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has won another reprieve. The spacecraft — responsible for detecting thousands of planets beyond our solar system — slipped into emergency mode last week nearly 75 million miles from Earth. Ground controllers man...

Long Beach met its state-mandated goal to reduce water by at least 15 percent since last June, officials a ounced this month. The city’s latest numbers for March water use show that customers of the Long Beach Water Department used 3,986 acre-feet of water last month, close to 16 percent less than t...