NICOSIA, Cyprus >> An EgyptAir plane was hijacked on Tuesday while flying from the Egyptian Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria to the capital, Cairo, and later landed in Cyprus where some of the women and children were allowed to get off the aircraft, according to Egyptian and Cypriot official...

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...

Federal prosecutors on Monday a ounced that the Justice Department, with the help of a mystery 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 Riverside...

A lawsuit seeking to block the development of a new homes on the site of a former Boy Scout camp near North Long Beach has been dismissed. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard L. Fruin Jr. dismissed the case on the grounds that the petitioners who challenged the Long Beach City Council’s ...

Ken Keil and his wife moved to Camarillo Avenue six years ago, drawn to North Hollywood’s walkable streets and a nearby park. But slowly they watched as the neighborhood’s small apartment buildings were flattened to make way for bigger housing developments. Then, an eviction notice arrived at their ...

Jurors will retu to federal court Tuesday to hear testimony in the criminal corruption trial of Paul Tanaka, once the second-in-command of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. A former deputy who has already been convicted for trying to thwart a federal investigation into deputy abuse in the...

Federal prosecutors on Monday a ounced that the Justice Department, with the help of a mystery 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 Riverside...

An independent fact-finder tasked with looking into the pay fight between Califo ia State University and its faculty determined that the 23-campus system should give professors the raise they’ve been demanding for nearly a year. Bo ie Prouty Castrey, chairwoman of a three-person panel that included ...

A Cambodian military leader has cancelled his attendance in a Long Beach parade amid fiery backlash from the local Cambodian community in recent weeks. Hun Manet, a lieutenant general in the Cambodian military and the eldest son of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who was a former Khmer Rouge comma...

One of those local Inte et blogs reported on Saturday that our mayor Robert Garcia had met with our formers mayors Bob Foster and Beverly O’Neill and other civic people at, according to the blogger, “A swanky hotel,” which tu ed out to be the Hotel Maya on the south shore of Queensway Bay. With an u...

Gov. Jerry Brown joined with legislators and labor unions Monday to a ounce an agreement that would boost the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, a move one Southland economist says will fuel job losses. The wage hikes, which are still subject to legislative approval, would begin in 2017 wh...

The state Department of Education on Monday named 37 model continuation high schools, including 10 campuses in Los Angeles and San Be ardion counties. The schools were recognized for i ovative teaching approaches that enable students with diverse needs to complete their high school education, accord...

WASHINGTON >> The FBI says it successfully used a mysterious technique without Apple’s help to break into an iPhone linked to the gunman in a Califo ia mass shooting. The surprise development effectively ends a pitched court battle between Apple and the Obama administration. The gove ment told a fed...

A joint experiment by NASA and the University of Southe Califo ia that will send fungi to space could change the way medicine is produced, both here on Earth and on long distance jou eys across our solar system. It sounds like the start of a cliched horror film plot, but researchers from USC and NAS...

Long Beach received a grant to help victims of human trafficking, officials a ounced today. The Opus Community Foundation gave the $5,000 grant to the Long Beach Community Foundation’s Crime Prevention Fund to help remove tattoos – including pimp’s names – that victims of trafficking are often force...

Long Beach Unified is offering free lunches to students at 14 elementary schools as the district’s Summer Food Service Program was extended during spring break. LBUSD offers “open sites” that are available to all kids and “closed enrolled site,” where priority is given to neighborhood students, but ...

Long Beach police are reminding area youth – many of whom are on spring break this week – that laws gove ing curfew, underage drinking and other safety measures will be strictly enforced. Youth under 18 are not allowed to be in any “public place” between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. “Our experience has shown ...

The carcass of a large sea lion washed up onto the beach at 64th Place on the Long Beach Peninsula Monday mo ing. It was scheduled to be removed shortly after noon by beach maintenance crews using a front-loader because of the sea lion’s size, said Gonzalo Medina, Long Beach Fire Department’s Marine...

A lawsuit seeking to block the development of a new homes on the site of a former Boy Scout camp near North Long Beach has been dismissed. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard L. Fruin Jr. dismissed the case on the grounds that the petitioners who challenged the Long Beach City Council’s ...

A Cambodian military leader has cancelled his attendance in a Long Beach parade amid fiery backlash from the local Cambodian community in recent weeks. Hun Manet, a lieutenant general in the Cambodian military and the eldest son of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who was a former Khmer Rouge comma...