The parent company of Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles has filed for bankruptcy protection in the face of a nearly $3.2u2009million settlement it owes to a former employee who claimed discrimination. The Chapteru200911 filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Friday came after a judge ordered East Co...

CNN is broadcasting the latest town hall meeting featuring the Republican presidential candidates at 5 tonight (PST), March 29. The town hall in Milwaukee features Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich. In addition to the CNN cable network, the town hall can be seen via a live stream at go.c .com. ...

For us boys growing up in the 1960s, Patty Duke was the older sister we wished we’d had. The two older sisters, actually. Playing rockin’ Patty Lane and her classy, identical British cousin Cathy on “The Patty Duke Show” from 1963 to ‘66, she was everything cool a teen of that Swingin’ era should ha...

The backers of ballot measure that would raise Long Beach’s sales tax rate in order to pay for infrastructure and public safety have filed paperwork to create an official campaign committee. The documents, filed Friday in the City Clerk’s office, dubbed the committee the “Mayor Garcia, Foster & O’Ne...

CNN is broadcasting the latest town hall meeting featuring the Republican presidential candidates at 5 tonight (PST), March 29. The town hall in Milwaukee features Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich. In addition to the CNN cable network, the town hall can be seen via a live stream at go.c .com. ...

Having apparently finally run out of things to study, the New York-based travel and economic development marketing firm DCI has completed a report on which U.S. mayors make the best use of Twitter. Followers of our mayor Robert Garcia will not be surprised to find that the study puts him at No. 10 o...

NEW YORK >> Patty Duke, who as a teen won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker,” then maintained a long career while battling personal demons, has died at the age of 69. The actress died early Tuesday mo ing of sepsis from a ruptured intestine, according to her agent, Mitchell St...

Formula E comes roaring (quietly) back to Long Beach on Saturday, with all-electric cars racing on a slightly shortened track near the Long Beach waterfront. If you plan to attend, or live nearby, here’s everything you need to know. Admission Last year the event was free; this year it will cost you ...

Southwest Airlines a ounced Tuesday that it will indeed fly out of Long Beach Airport, although the airline has not yet revealed its destinations. The Dallas-based airline plans to make those details public during a Thursday mo ing media conference at the Queen Mary. Long Beach officials offered fou...

Southwest Airlines a ounced Tuesday that it will indeed fly out of Long Beach Airport, although the airline has not yet revealed its destinations. The Dallas-based airline plans to make those details public during a Thursday mo ing media conference at the Queen Mary. Long Beach officials offered fou...

A transgender male who was denied a haircut at a Long Beach barber shop sued the business today, claiming the employees said they did not cut women’s hair and that females were not allowed in the shop. Rose Trevis’ Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against Hawleywood’s Barber Shop alleges discrimin...

Kendrick Lamar and LCD Sound System will headline this year’s FYF Fest, which retu s to Exposition Park Aug. 27 and 28. The just released lineup also includes Long Beach rapper Vince Staples and Moby on Saturday and Grace Jones and Beach House on Sunday. Other notable acts on the lineup include Tame...

Southwest Airlines a ounced Tuesday that it will indeed fly out of Long Beach Airport, although the airline has not yet revealed its destinations. The Dallas-based airline plans to make those details public during a Thursday mo ing media conference at the Queen Mary. Long Beach officials offered fou...

A transgender male who was denied a haircut at a Long Beach barber shop sued the business today, claiming the employees said they did not cut women’s hair and that females were not allowed in the shop. Rose Trevis’ Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against Hawleywood’s Barber Shop alleges discrimin...

Not all terrorist attacks are equal. Since the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people on November 13, there have been literally hundreds of terrorist attacks happening around the world. However, only a handful of the attacks received widespread coverage by inte ational media. Most of the attacks on...

NEW YORK >> Patty Duke, who won an Oscar as a teen for “The Miracle Worker” and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life, has died at the age of 69. • Photos: Oscar-wi ing actress Patty Duke dies at 69 Duke’s agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the actress died early Tuesday mo ing of se...

WASHINGTON — He is the Republican Party’s undisputed front-ru er, yet Donald Trump’s White House aspirations may now depend on a messy fight for delegates he is only now scrambling to address. Trump’s campaign on Monday vowed to pursue legal action against the Republican National Committee to protec...

BELLFLOWER — Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a 36-year-old man for allegedly shooting a woman in a bait-and-tackle shop in Bellflower, a sheriff’s lieutenant said today. The shooting happened about 11:15 p.m. Monday, at the fishing shop in the 17000 block of Bellflower Boulevard,...

Federal prosecutors on Monday a ounced that the Justice Department, with the help of a mysterious third party, successfully accessed the data from the work-issued iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook, the gunman in the San Be ardino terrorist attack. In a status report filed in U.S. District Court in Rivers...

LARNACA, Cyprus — An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane during a routine domestic flight to Cairo and forced it to land on the island of Cyprus on Tuesday has surrendered and was taken into custody after he released all the passengers and crew. His surrender ended an hours-long drama and st...