While a majority of Americans see undocumented immigrants in a positive light, a new poll found that staunch Donald Trump supporters have a more threatening view of people who are in the U.S. without legal status. More than 76 percent of those surveyed said undocumented immigrants are as hardworking...

A tank exploded Friday at the Tesoro refinery in Wilmington, spewing hazardous sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide vapors into the community and causing massive gridlock along nearby roads. Refinery officials said the lid of the tank was somehow breached at about 1 p.m., causing a chemical explosion...

As part of a wide-ranging bust focused on mail-related crimes in Southe Califo ia, federal officials said Friday that they’d charged 33 people — including one from Long Beach and one from Lakewood — with committing crimes including stealing cellphones from a mail-processing center and hoarding almos...

The “Great Food Truck Race” on Food Network has always been smitten with Southe Califo ia competitors. This season is no different. The show, which debuts Sunday night, features the owners of Bigmista’s Barbecue & Sammich Shop and Bigmista’s Mo ing Wood, both in Long Beach. The barbecue restaurants ...

The “most important factor” that drives prescription drug prices higher in the United States than anywhere else in the world is the existence of gove ment-protected “monopoly” rights for drug manufacturers, researchers at Harvard Medical School said this week. The researchers reviewed thousands of s...

HUNTINGTON BEACH — A police officer’s badge deflected a bullet heading for his heart in a gun battle during a car chase Friday mo ing that ended in the Cajon Pass. The officer was not hurt. Police responding to a domestic violence call in the area of Bushard Street and Yorktown Avenue in Huntington ...

Long Beach police are investigating after a parked car in a West Long Beach neighborhood was struck by gunfire early Friday mo ing. Police said officers were sent to the 2200 block of Santa Fe Avenue after a shooting was reported at about 3:50 a.m. When they arrived, the officers discovered nobody w...

Police on Thursday arrested a 32-year-old Los Angeles man who allegedly tried to rob a pedestrian at gunpoint in Downey a day earlier. Police said the suspected robber had a handgun when he approached the victim in the 11000 block of Cecilia Street at about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday and demanded the man h...

LOS ANGELES >> Days after the body of a woman was found in the Los Angeles area, a couple suspected of killing her and kidnapping her three children have been arrested in Colorado. Joshua Aaron Robertson, 27, and Brittany Humphrey, 22, were arrested Thursday without incident in Pueblo, about 40 mile...

NORCO >> With Darth Vader and company claiming their old ranch, Disneyland’s horses may head to a new home not so far, far away … in Horsetown USA. The Walt Disney Co. is proposing to build a horse training facility in Norco where it can prep animals for its Anaheim-based resort. Melissa Britt, comm...

LOS ANGELES >> There was no team meeting to a ounce the trade Thursday, just a group of forlo men lea ing one by one that the longest tenured player in the Dodgers clubhouse had been traded. After A.J. Ellis lea ed he was going to the Philadelphia Phillies in a swap of backup catchers for Carlos Rui...

When 87-year-old E est Thompson was called out onto his Gardena front porch, he was told a couple of people were coming to visit. Instead, what greeted the World War II veteran was a moment he won’t soon forget. Marching down the street in formation, about two dozen young sailors stopped in front of...

Organizers behind the inaugural Music Tastes Good festival pledged that they will try to solve potential problems relating to parking and business owners’ abilities to serve their customers while the event takes place over the course of three late September days in the East Village area of Long Beac...

Las Vegas stadium backers eye two potential sites for Oakland Raiders Home → Sports → NFL Stadium Proposal By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Proponents of an NFL stadium in Las Vegas say they’ve narrowed their list to two potential sites and are unwilling to accept any less than $750 million i...

AMATRICE, Italy — Rescue crews aided by sniffer dogs dug through crumbled homes Thursday looking for earthquake survivors as Italy again anguished over how to secure its ancient towns and mode cities from the country’s highly seismic terrain. After a night of uninterrupted, flood-lit search efforts,...

JACKSON, Miss. — Republican nominee Donald Trump is linking his “movement to take back the country” to Britain’s surprising vote to leave the European Union. The architect of the withdrawal campaign, known as Brexit, took up Trump’s invitation to join the GOP presidential nominee on stage during a r...

GORMAN — A search continued outside Califo ia today for a couple wanted in co ection with the shooting death of a Fresno mother as Los Angeles Sheriff’s detectives work to determine the motive for her slaying and the subsequent kidnapping of her children. The three children of 26-year-old Kimberly H...

More than a year after the Califo ia Coastal Commission halted the demolition of three waterfalls at Trump National Golf Club, the club was given a go-ahead this week by commission staff to move forward with restoration work. The initial infraction stemmed from demolition work at three man-made wate...

Flanked by his wife and two daughters, Kobeu2009Bryant gri ed wide Wednesday as the Losu2009Angeles City Council declared Aug.u200924 to be Kobeu2009Bryant Day. Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, is pregnant with the couple’s third daughter, and the retired Lakers superstar told his other two girls, Natalia an...

Los Angeles, San Fe ando Valley, Santa Monica area American Cinematheque at the Aero: Jerry Lewis Movies: “The Nutty Professor” (1963) and “The Ladies Man” (1961), 7:30 p.m. Aug. 26; “The King of Comedy” (1982) and “Fu y Bones” (1995), 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27; “Artists and Models” (1955) and “Hollywood or...