Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was indicted Friday on federal charges alleging that he conspired to obstruct justice and lied to the federal gove ment in co ection with inmate civil rights abuses and corruption inside the county’s jails. Baca, 74, was indicted by a grand jury on three ch...

It was Thursday, and Oscar De La Hoya was on the phone. The Hall of Fame boxer from East Los Angeles won a gold medal in the 1992 Barcelona Games, so with two days before boxing was to begin at the Rio Games, one would think De La Hoya would be eyeing that with great anticipation. He’s not. Even tho...

The Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony will air at 7:30 p.m. on NBC TV on Friday. The event begins at 4 p.m. Pacific Time, but is delayed for prime time across the country. Streaming options include the NBC Sports app or go to NBColympics.com - both will require a login with cable subscription after 30 m...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump faced an all-too-clear sign of GOP divisions Friday in two Midweste battlegrounds, embraced by party leaders in one state but ignored in another as he strained to overcome deepening conce s about his presidential candidacy. Some of Iowa’s Republican elite will appear ...

Long Beach Airport offered the most affordable flights in the nation this year, according to a recent report that compared pricing and travel trends in airports across the U.S. This marks the third time in four years that Long Beach Airport has ea ed the No. 1 spot in the a ual Airport Affordability...

The Califo ia Legislature passed legislation this week to rename the Alamitos Bay Bridge after Joan Van Blom, who was the first woman to win an Olympic Medal for the United States in rowing. Van Blom died close to a year ago from an aggressive form of brain cancer at 62. “From the Olympic stage to t...

Small quake hits Califo ia’s Central Coast By City News Service PASADENA — A small, exceedingly shallow earthquake rattled part of Califo ia’s Central Coast today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The magnitude-3 quake struck at 8:45 a.m. at a depth of zero miles, its epicenter 10 miles northwes...

The city on Thursday will unveil new protected bike lanes in North Long Beach along Artesia Boulevard from Orange to Atlantic avenues. The lanes are the first to be constructed in the Artesia Bike Lane Project, and will eventually extend east on Artesia to the city’s border at Downey Avenue. “These ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police say they have jailed a Moroccan Olympic boxer on allegations he sexually assaulted two Brazilian women. In a statement, police say they arrested boxer Hassan Saada on Friday for possible assaults on two Brazilian women who worked as waitresses in the Olympic Village...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama vigorously denies that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was ransom to secure the release of four Americans jailed in Tehran. He defended the transaction as evidence that the nuclear accord with Iran has allowed for progress on other matters. “This wasn’t some n...

SAN JOSE — Adele may be one of pop music’s biggest stars, but she says her fame and fortune didn’t prevent her credit card from being declined at an H&M store. London’s Daily Mirror reports that Adele told concertgoers at a show in San Jose on Sunday that her card was declined at the fashion retaile...

BONITA, Calif. — Jonathan De Guzman, a San Diego police officer who survived a stabbing 13 years ago and shot at a gun-wielding man three years ago, will be buried Friday after being fatally shot in the driver’s seat of his patrol car after his partner approached a man on the street. The burial will...

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA >> Malaysia acknowledged for the first time that one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had plotted a course on his home flight simulator to the southe Indian Ocean, where the missing jet is believed to have crashed. Australian officials overseeing the search for th...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> He was more than 6,000 miles from home now, in a place where they speak Portuguese, when a reporter from the Netherlands approached and asked DeAndre Jordan a question in English. A question about…Jordan’s inability to shoot free throws? Come on, man. Perhaps there’s another contin...

DEL MAR LEADERS Through Thursday JOCKEYS / WINS Flavien Prat / 16 Santiago Gonzalez / 13 Tyler Baze / 9 Rafael Bejarano / 9 Kent Desormeaux / 8 Victor Espinoza / 8 TRAINERS / WINS Bob Baffert / 7 Philip D’Amato / 7 Mark Glatt / 6 Peter Miller / 6 John Sadler / 6 WEEKEND STAKES SCHEDULE DEL MAR Satur...

While Long Beach may not be duplicating the 32-member delegation that represented the city during the London Olympics in 2012, the city will still have a large group of athletes and coaches with co ections to Long Beach in Rio. Here’s a look at who’s competing in 2016’s #TeamLB. Regular updates on a...

Some 50,000 Southe Califo ia grocery workers will walk into union offices on Monday to cast their vote on a tentative agreement that, if approved, would avoid another devastating strike. After intense round-the-clock negotiations this week, union workers and the three major supermarket chains – Ralp...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> There he sat Wednesday, at his first Olympics, on a stage that included the entire U.S. te is contingent. About the only two players being asked anything, however, were Serena and Venus Williams. Finally, the news conference tu ed to Steve Johnson. “I’m just excited,” he said, “tha...

If the smog seems terrible this summer, well, it is. In June, Southe Califo ia’s ocean-to-mountains air basin had just four days of healthy air. Things got worse in July when ozone levels exceeded the federal health standard every day except July 31. And as August begins, there’s no relief in sight....

DEL MAR LEADERS Through Thursday JOCKEYS / WINS Flavien Prat / 16 Santiago Gonzalez / 13 Tyler Baze / 9 Rafael Bejarano / 9 Kent Desormeaux / 8 Victor Espinoza / 8 TRAINERS / WINS Bob Baffert / 7 Philip D’Amato / 7 Mark Glatt / 6 Peter Miller / 6 John Sadler / 6 WEEKEND STAKES SCHEDULE DEL MAR Satur...