NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after the former congressman was accused in yet another sexting scandal. • PHOTOS: Huma Abedin leaving Anthony Weiner following latest sexting revelations “After long and painful consider...

Late Sunday night, Twitter was abuzz with reports of an active shooter at Los Angeles Inte ational Airport and evacuations at several terminals. Police later reported that there was no shooter, but those who were evacuated were required to pass through TSA security again, flights were delayed and tr...

Panic apparently sparked by loud noises sent thousands of harried, screaming passengers scurrying out of Terminal 8 at LAX Sunday night, prompting chaos outside and gridlock in the Central Terminal Area and nearby roads. Los Angeles Airport police said fears of an active shooter in the terminal were...

EXPOSITION PARK >> There were big crowds once again for the final day of the 13th a ual FYF Fest at Exposition Park to see more than 20 acts close out the eclectic festival. The vibe at the Sunday concert was relatively relaxed and chill with the day headlined by LCD Soundsystem, the electronic danc...

The concept of a “four-year university,” at least at Cal State University campuses, has long been something of a polite fiction for many students. The reality is, a majority of students still need at least six years of schooling to attain an undergraduate degree, and it’s something educators across ...

May 2014: The Teachers Association of Long Beach distributed surveys to its members to determine how many classrooms in Long Beach Unified experience stifling heat. TALB received 200 responses from teachers with mixed results. September 2014: The district asked schools to curtail physical activity a...

In Long Beach, school isn’t cool. That’s generally speaking. It’s cool at about 40 percent of the 87 school buildings in the Long Beach Unified School District that are lucky, or mode , enough to have air-conditioned classrooms. It’s no sweat for students at, say, Chavez Elementary School, built in ...

Chef Arthur Gonzalez said he is weeks away from realizing his goal of opening a new seafood place, called Roe Restaurant, in Belmont Shore after experiencing so many challenges there that he ended up opening an entirely different restaurant since his first attempt four years ago. “We’re starting to ...

Long Beach’s Pla ing Commission will decide Thursday whether to allow plans and permitting for the Belmont Beach and Aquatic Center to move forward. If all the approvals are granted, the $103 million project would move on to the City Council, then the state Coastal Commission. The center is designed...

EXPOSITION PARK >> Kendrick Lamar celebrated a homecoming of sorts at the FYF Fest on Saturday, headlining the main stage just a few miles north of his hometown of Compton and, over the course of a terrifically compelling set, underscoring his standing as one of the top rappers in the game today. La...

WASHINGTON >> With the hourglass ru ing out for his administration, President Barack Obama’s health care law is struggling in many parts of the country. Double-digit premium increases and exits by big-name insurers have caused some to wonder whether “Obamacare” will go down as a failed experiment. I...

ISTANBUL >> One Turkish soldier was killed and eight others wounded in two separate blasts Sunday in the country’s Kurdish-dominated southeast, and Kurdish militants launched a rocket-propelled grenade at a civilian airport, officials and the state-run news agency said. The Anadolu Agency said one s...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. >> Tourist John Gleason crept through the grass, four small children close behind, inching toward a bull elk with antlers like small trees at the edge of a meadow in Yellowstone National Park. “They’re going to give me a heart attack,” said Gleason’s mother-in-law, Ba...

For many people heading to the 13th a ual FYF Fest at Exposition Park, the train was the way to go. The Metro Expo trains coming from Santa Monica were ru ing about five minutes apart as they headed to the concert today. And that was a nice surprise for Westside residents like Emily Diaz and Tony Lo...

Hamstrung by strict limits on political contributions, Califo ia lawmakers have found a way to continue to extract large sums from some of Sacramento’s most powerful special interests. Increasingly, they’re using “ballot measure committees,” little-known and barely regulated accounts that are suppos...

EXPOSITION PARK >> The 13th a ual FYF Fest got started this year under cool temperatures as thousands of music fans came to Exposition Park to see more than 30 bands perform on several stages during day one of the festival. Saturday’s headliner was Long Beach native Kendrick Lamar who was joined on ...

The patients rushed to L.A. County-USC Medical Center’s emergency department on Aug. 19 and again three days later all shared a common story: They took one or two hits off of a cheap joint they bought on Skid Row. Then they fell to the ground. While Dr. Fiona Garlich and the team of physicians at th...

PIGEON PASS >> Want to know what it cost to buy more than two-dozen acres for the DonkeyLand wild-burro rescue operation in Reche Canyon? It’s no trick question. Just ask Bob Barker. The former “Price is Right” host donated $400,000 from his DJ&T Foundation to help the small animal-rescue operation ...

Between 1999 and 2013, Califo ia’s Academic Performance Index boiled everything about the state’s K-12 public schools down to a single number between 200 and 1000. That’s going away in a new, more nuanced system that’s now under construction. In the old model, the desirability of neighborhoods or ev...

Detectives have wa ed the public of a sudden increase in tire and wheel thefts from late model Chevrolet trucks in the Harbor Area, releasing a photograph of a man in a ski mask captured as he loaded stolen wheels into a van. Residents have reported 12 crimes in the last month in Wilmington, San Ped...