WASHINGTON >> A U.S. Capitol Police officer was shot Monday at the Capitol Visitor Center complex, and the shooter was taken into custody, Capitol officials and police said. The event unfolded with Congress on recess and lawmakers back in their districts. It occurred in the Visitors Center of the sp...

North Korea is not known for subtlety. Its latest propaganda video is no exception. In a new video released Saturday, ominously entitled “Last Chance,” North Korea goes through four minutes of “humiliating defeats” suffered by the US at the hands of the North Koreans. Highlights include the North’s ...

SAN DIEGO — Saudi Arabia’s largest dairy company will soon be unable to farm alfalfa in its own parched country to feed its 170,000 cows. So it’s tu ing to an unlikely place to grow the water-chugging crop — the drought-stricken American Southwest. Almarai Co. bought land in January that roughly dou...

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

The second of two earthquakes to shake the Huntington Beach area struck this mo ing, authorities said. A magnitude-3.1 earthquake was reported three miles west-northwest of Huntington Beach at 3:40 a.m. A magnitude-2.6 earthquake struck about four miles west-southwest of Huntington Beach, at about 1...

From day one the Chino Hills boys basketball team set out with a goal — an undefeated record and a state title, or bust. For most those are unrealistic expectations, but Huskies coach Steve Baik knew his team’s potential. The Huskies (35-0) finished that job late Saturday night, tu ing back a pesky ...

ANAHEIM >> A pipe bomb has exploded in a Southe Califo ia alley, causing minor damage and no injuries. Anaheim police Sgt. Daron Wyatt says a report of a possible explosion sent officers to the 600-block of north Anaheim Boulevard on Sunday afte oon. They found a pipe bomb blast had caused minor dam...

Frontier Communications is set to acquire all of Verizon’s landline-related assets in Califo ia, Florida and Texas on Friday — a deal that includes 5,000 Califo ia employees. And contrary to the way things often play out with such acquisitions, Frontier said it will not be laying off workers in the ...

Frontier Communications acquired all of Verizon’s landline-related assets in Califo ia, Florida and Texas on Friday — a deal that includes 5,000 Califo ia employees. And contrary to the way things often play out with such acquisitions, Frontier said it will not be laying off workers in the coming mo...

ISLAMABAD >> A breakaway Pakistani faction of the militant Taliban group has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bombing that killed 65 people in a park in the easte city of Lahore that was crowded with Christians, including many children. Ahsanullah Ahsan, spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, tol...

San Be ardino County probation officers Nathan Scarano and John Holmes were in their office the mo ing of Dec. 2 when the first dispatches of an active shooter came over the police radio. The two dashed from their office, each got into his own department-issued vehicle and rushed to Inland Regional ...

Cal State Long Beach is one of 52 four-year public schools across the country succeeding at reducing graduation rate differences between underrepresented students and the rest of the school, a report from the Education Trust said this week. CSULB reduced the gap between white students and black stud...

Marios Chartosias’ life was tu ed upside down. A research and teaching assistant in Cal State Long Beach’s College of Engineering, Chartosias, 28, was pla ing to apply for a 17-month extension to his student visa that allows inte ational graduates who majored in science, technology, engineering or m...

A Long Beach woman was one of two people killed in a head-on collision between an SUV and a car in San Jacinto, the Riverside County coroner’s office said. Two other people were severely injured in the crash, which occurred about 9:50 p.m. Friday on westbound Gilman Springs Road west of state Route ...

NEW YORK >> “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” shrugged off lousy reviews to debut with an estimated $170.1 million in North America, the sixth best weekend opening of all-time. The stakes were high for the Wa er Bros. superhero showdown, which cost $250 million to make and some $150 million to ma...

SACRAMENTO >> Califo ia legislators and labor unions on Saturday reached an agreement that will take the state’s minimum wage from $10 to $15 an hour, a state senator said, a move that would make for the largest statewide minimum in the nation by far. Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, told The Associ...

WASHINGTON >> Be ie Sanders scored three wins in Weste caucus contests, giving a powerful psychological boost to his supporters but doing little to move him closer to securing the Democratic nomination. While results in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii barely dented Hillary Clinton’s significant delega...

BRUSSELS >> At the aptly named Planete Chocolat, the shelves are laden with enticing Easter treasures for shoppers: bu ies with bows, pastel-wrapped eggs and elegant boxes of pralines. Swa ee Vranckx, a clerk at the shop near Brussels’ main square, said she would normally have seen 50 to 100 custome...

BRUSSELS >> The Belgium gove ment sought Sunday to contain criticism of its handling of the Brussels attacks, as investigators launched 13 anti-terror raids in the capital and two other cities and taking four more people in custody. In central Brussels, riot police used water ca on when scuffles bro...

WASHINGTON >> Be ie Sanders scored a duo of wins in Weste caucus contests Saturday, giving a powerful psychological boost to his supporters but doing little to move him closer to securing the Democratic nomination. TX Body: While results in Washington and Alaska barely dented Hillary Clinton’s signi...