Seeking to salvage a $500 million railyard project, the city of Los Angeles and a national railroad company on Tuesday filed an appeal of a court decision that halted the controversial project near a low-income community. The appeal could mean years of legal wrangling for the Southe Califo ia Inte a...

Brush fire closes Willow Street offramp from 605 Freeway in Long Beach By Staff and wire report The southbound Willow Street offramp from the 605 Freeway in Long Beach, near Los Alamitos, is closed due to a brush fire in the area, officials said. The offramp is expected to be closed for about 30 min...

Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time” starring Oprah Winfrey and directed by Ava DuVe ay is among 28 films selected to receive $109 million in incentives under Califo ia’s expanded Film & Television Tax Credit Program, the Califo ia Film Commission a ounced Tuesday. The Disney production is expected to emplo...

Long Beach police held a DUI checkpoint on Saturday at Artesia Boulevard and Cherry Avenue from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Sunday. Saturday’s checkpoint produced the following results: • 338 vehicles screened • 3 Field Sobriety Tests performed • 1 DUI-alcohol suspect arrested • 11 drivers cited/arrested for o...

A lot of dirt has been moving around this week at a pair of Long Beach middle schools. Grading for new all-weather athletic fields was under way at Perry Lindsey Middle School, 5075 Daisy Ave., and Jessie Nelson Academy Middle School, 1951 Cherry Ave., in Signal Hill. Dump trucks were at both sites ...

Volume control is what we’re talking about loud and clear here. Consumption habits needed for NBC’s presentation of the 2016 Rio Summer Games may need to change if you’re still stuck in the prime-time mode of waiting for results and commentary, starting with preliminary soccer matches before Friday’...

Los Angeles, San Fe ando Valley and Santa Monica area Events National Oyster Day: Area restaurants offer deals on oysters on Aug. 5. Herringbone: $1 oysters during lunch (11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.), happy hour (4:30-6:30 p.m.) and di er (5-11 p.m.), 1755 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica (310-971-4460; www.herringbo...

WASHINGTON >> In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There has to come a point at which you say enough.” Whil...

LOS ANGELES — The parents of “Star Trek” actor Anton Yelchin on Tuesday sued the makers of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, an SUV that was under recall when it crushed and killed the 27-year-old. Victor and Irina Yelchin filed the wrongful-death and product-liability lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler in Los An...

ATWATER, Calif. — A charter bus veered off a central Califo ia highway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle nearly in half, killing five people and sending at least five more to hospitals, some with lost limbs, authorities said. Rescuers pulled out “bags of body parts” from ...

Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time” starring Oprah Winfrey and directed by Ava DuVe ay is among 28 films selected to receive $109 million in incentives under Califo ia’s expanded Film & Television Tax Credit Program, the Califo ia Film Commission a ounced Tuesday. The Disney production is expected to emplo...

ANGELES CREST HIGHWAY >> Search and rescue crews are working Tuesday to recover the bodies believed to be those of the three missing Fontana teens after a truck was found hundreds of feet down a ravine along Angeles Crest Highway near Mount Wilson. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is hand...

ATWATER, Calif. — A charter bus operated by an East Los Angeles company veered off a central Califo ia freeway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle nearly in half, killing five people and sending at least five others to hospitals, authorities said. The unmarked white bus car...

While a labor dispute simmers at home, the U.S. women’s national soccer team is set to travel across Brazil as the favorite to win its fourth straight Olympic gold medal. The Rio Games are happening as a U.S. federal agency looks at a wage discrimination complaint filed by a group of national team p...

ATWATER, Calif. — A charter bus veered off a central Califo ia freeway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole head-on, killing five people and sending at least five others to hospitals, authorities said. The pole of a highway exit sign sliced the unmarked white bus carrying about 30 people nearly in ...

FONTANA >> A trio of Fontana teens reported missing Saturday after they failed to retu home from a hiking trip in the Angeles National Forest have been found dead, according to Los Angeles County Fire officials. Daniel Gamboa, 19, Kasey Vance, 18 and Samantha O elas, 17, all of Fontana, left their h...

COMPTON — Authorities asked for the public’s help today in tracking down whoever shot and killed a man in Compton. The shooting occurred about 10:40 p.m. Monday in the 500 block of North Sloan Avenue, between Rosecrans Avenue and Compton Boulevard, said Deputy Kelvin Moody of the Sheriff’s Informati...

Five rescued after boat strikes San Pedro breakwall Home → News → Boating accidents By City News Service SAN PEDRO >> Five people were rescued Monday night from a 25-foot boat that struck the breakwall near the Port of Los Angeles lighthouse in San Pedro. One person was plucked from the rocks an...

Apartment rents are rising faster than household incomes and Southe Califo ia rentals are among the priciest in the nation, according to ApartmentList.com. Figures released Monday from ApartmentList show that Pasadena had the biggest year-over-year rent increase in the Los Angeles metro area — a bum...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> I’m proud to be an American, which, I’ve been reminded again, isn’t necessarily the same thing as being proud of America. In covering events like the Olympics, I’ve become increasingly reluctant to display national pride, so much so now that, in preparing to come to Brazil, I made ...