In record numbers, homeowners throughout the state and region rushed out to buy flood insurance in anticipation of the widely hyped — and feared — monster El Niño. But rainfall has been anything but record-breaking. Instead of performing like a rock star, this El Niño has served up the weather equiv...

LOS ANGELES — Kelly Drysdale remembers seeing her dad’s Cy Young Award in her house growing up. Now she’s heartbroken that Don Drysdale’s widow is selling memorabilia from his years as a star pitcher for the Dodgers. A Meyers Drysdale, the Hall of Fame basketball player who was married to the Hall o...

Los Angeles, San Fe ando Valley and Santa Monica area Events Beverly Hills Culinary Week: April 5-8. Check website for participating restaurants. www.bhculinaryweek.com Ocean Prime: Beverly Hills Culinary Week event: Two-course lunch ($25) and three-course di er ($49), April 5-8. Tax and tip extra. ...

MUNICH — Arturo Vidal’s early header was enough for Baye Munich to beat Benfica 1-0 at home on Tuesday and take a slender advantage from the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal. The Chilean midfielder struck in the second minute, heading home from five meters (yards) after being picked ...

If next Saturday’s 40th a ual Toyota Pro/Celebrity race is indeed the final time the race is to be run in Long Beach, at least the well-loved tradition will be going out with a bang. Nineteen of the 21 drivers are former champions, making it both the largest and the most talented field in the race’s...

City Auditor Laura Doud and her staff won a national award for their audit of police and fire dispatch operators in Long Beach, the city a ounced Tuesday. The local office won the 2015 Distinguished Knighton Award from the Association of Local Gove ment Auditors – Doud’s fourth Knighton Award. Doud’...

FBI agents investigating a potential data leak at Boeing obtained a secret warrant to search the home computers of a company manager in Califo ia for evidence they hoped would co ect him to Chinese economic espionage. Instead, they say, they found something else entirely: graphic child po ography. W...

Long Beach police are searching for a 19-year-old woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder who went missing the mo ing of March 31. Mia Yvette Webber, a recent Poly High graduate and current Long Beach City College student, left sometime between 7-9 a.m. without taking her medication, wal...

COMPTON — The hunt was on today for whoever gu ed down three men, killing two of them, outside a mini-mall in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County bordering Compton, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The shootings occurred about 5:15 p.m. Monday in the 13000 block of South Av...

COMPTON — The hunt was on today for whoever gu ed down three men, killing two of them, outside a mini-mall in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County bordering Compton, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The shootings occurred about 5:15 p.m. Monday in the 13000 block of South Av...

MILWAUKEE — Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Be ie Sanders are angling for victories in Tuesday’s Wisconsin presidential primaries that could give their campaigns a needed boost, but still leave them with mathematically challenging paths to their parties’ nominations. While Sanders remains a force i...

PARLIER, Calif. — It started with a few kittens. But nearly a quarter-century later, a Califo ia woman has transformed her 4,000-square-foot home into what’s believed to be the largest no-cage cat sanctuary and adoption center in the U.S. An estimated 24,000 cats have been saved by the sanctuary, wh...

LOS ANGELES — Califo ia’s decision to push its statewide minimum wage to a nation-leading $15 comes with uncertainties that could see the pay jumps postponed if the economy sours or the state budget slumps, while the overall goal of helping the working poor might be lessened if some employers cut jo...

NEW YORK — Friends who enter into business partnerships sometimes don’t remain so. But Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, who started working together about four years ago, still manage to be BFFs. The secret? Keeping their friendship a priority. Before he started producing hits like “The Haves and Have...

AUGUSTA, Ga. >> Vaughn Taylor was set to play golf this week at Cartagena, Colombia. Jim Herman was set to watch golf this week from his Palm City, Fla., home, in between daddy duties. The Masters Tou ament had other things in mind. Taylor and Herman are both here, inexplicably and delightedly. If t...

ESPN apologized Monday for a misunderstanding about its plans to black out or show alte ative programming instead of airing the Dodgers’ season opener at San Diego. Only those L.A. customers of Time Wa er Cable and Charter Cable with access to SportsNet LA could see the 4 p.m. game Monday with the c...

HOUSTON — Kris Jenkins is one of those players who believes every shot is going in. Sometimes, it feels so right to be right. The Villanova junior answered a double-clutch, game-tying 3-pointer by North Carolina’s Marcus Paige with a buzzer-beating 3 of his own Monday night to lift the Wildcats to a...

A fake Twitter account created by an unknown party pretending to represent Long Beach Councilman Daryl Supe aw has vanished from the social media service. Long Beach Technology & I ovation Department staffers asked Twitter to delete the “@DarylSupe aw4” account after someone used it on Friday evenin...

Despite record-low water savings in February, winter storms in Northe Califo ia filled reservoirs and retu ed the missing snowpack, easing the drought crisis and triggering softer water conservation targets, state water officials said Monday. While many parts of the state may be headed into a fifth ...

Former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka admitted on the witness stand Monday that he has a tattoo associated with a deputy gang known as the Vikings that a federal judge has called a “neo-nazi, white supremacist” group. Under questioning by a prosecutor, Tanaka insisted that the Viking was merely the mascot...