RIO DE JANEIRO >> This oceanfront city was discovered by Europeans on New Year’s Day 1502, when a Portuguese expedition that also included Italian explorer and financier Amerigo Vespucci sailed into Guanabara Bay, whose name came from the Tupi Indians and means “bosom of the sea.” Many in the Englis...

The Brenda Martinez story is bigger than Brenda Martinez. The 28-year-old former Rancho Cucamonga High and UC Riverside track star is now an Olympian. It’s a jou ey that started from humble begi ings and featured plenty of rejection and disappointment along the way. It’s a jou ey that’s molded Marti...

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...

Law enforcement officials from across Southe Califo ia and the nation will come together with their communities tonight to share crime tips, eat barbecue, watch K-9 units practice their maneuvers and generally celebrate police. And, perhaps, have some tough conversations. As police agencies and resi...

SAN BERNARDINO >> Inland Regional Center executive director Lavinia Johnson’s eyes beamed as she talks about the outpouring of support from the public, but there were times during a recent hourlong discussion when she became a bit reserved. Associate director Kevin Urtz was much more guarded, especi...

The Space on Pacific won’t be quite like any other theater in downtown San Pedro. For starters, it’s going to house a spaceship. In a warehouse next door, web shows on all things UFOs, the supe atural and the metaphysical will be streamed to tens of thousands of viewers around the world. And on Aug....

FONTANA >> San Be ardino County Coroner’s investigators are working to determine what led to the deaths of three people who attended the HARD Summer Music Festival this weekend at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, officials said. Jodi Miller, spokeswoman for the San Be ardino County Sheriff’s Departmen...

The development company that brought a Dunkin’ Donut franchise to Long Beach may acquire former redevelopment agency parcels on the city’s north end. Frontier Real Estate Investments, a Newport Beach company, may spend $2.1 million to obtain city-owned land near the northeast co er of the Artesia Bo...

Measure A made things easier. But not easy. The city released its 2017 budget proposal on Monday, and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia called it balanced, responsible and forward-looking, thanks in part to a burst of new revenue from the voter-approved sales tax measure expected to drum up $384 millio...

LOS ANGELES >> A onetime South Bay resident was sentenced Monday to seven decades in federal prison for traveling repeatedly to Cambodia to molest impoverished children, four of whom testified to grueling sexual attacks that had jurors holding back tears. Ronald “John” Boyajian was found guilty in M...

SEAL BEACH >> Four teenage boys were arrested following a drive-by pellet-gun shooting in Seal Beach that left a 5-year-old child and a woman with minor injuries, police reported today. The “random” BB gun attack happened about 5 p.m. Sunday near Electric Avenue at 12th Street, according to Seal Bea...

WASHINGTON >> Angry and anxious, Republican lawmakers and veterans groups hastened to disavow Donald Trump’s repeated criticism of a bereaved military family Monday, but the GOP presidential nominee refused to back down. He complained anew that he had been “viciously attacked” by the parents of a Mu...

FONTANA >> San Be ardino County Coroner’s investigators are working to determine what led to the deaths of three people who attended the HARD Summer Music Festival this weekend in Fontana, officials said. Jodi Miller, spokeswoman for the San Be ardino County Sheriff’s Department, said the cause of d...

Think of it as a direct co ection from the seaside to Silicon Valley. JetBlue Airways Corp. a ounced plans to begin direct flights for the first time from Long Beach Airport to Mineta San Jose Inte ational Airport in early January. The airline, which operates more flights from LGB than any other car...

FONTANA >> San Be ardino County Coroner’s investigators are working to determine what led to the deaths of three people who attended the HARD Summer Music Festival this weekend in Fontana, officials said. Jodi Miller, spokeswoman for the San Be ardino County Sheriff’s Department, said the cause of d...

LOS ANGELES — A reckless-driving suspect in an SUV led authorities on a circuitous chase today from the San Fe ando Valley to West Los Angeles and through Culver City. Sheriff’s deputies initially tried to stop the motorist for alleged reckless or impaired driving in the Calabasas area, but the susp...

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca told a federal judge Monday he wants to plead not guilty and stand trial. Baca made that choice during an afte oon federal court hearing. The decision came two weeks after U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson rejected the former sheriff’s plea agreement...

LOS ANGELES — The rowdy revelry of the Teen Choice Awards momentarily took on a somber tone Sunday when Jessica Alba, Ne-Yo and a group of teenagers called for an end to gun violence. The actress was joined on stage at the fan-favorite ceremony by a group of teens related to shooting victims in such...

NEW YORK — Fellow Republicans are joining the rising chorus of criticism of Donald Trump for his disparagement of the bereaved parents of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim who was awarded a Bronze Star after he was killed in 2004 in Iraq. The roll of GOP senators publicly taking Trump to task r...

Former Sheriff Lee Baca must tell a federal judge today whether he wants to plead not guilty and stand trial, or accept a longer sentence in co ection with a jail corruption scandal — and atto eys are working from now until the afte oon in hopes of making plea deal the court will accept. Baca was fo...