Southe Califo ia employers face a variety of challenges, and one of the most pressing is an ever-widening skills gap that often results in positions being unfilled for long periods of time. That topic came up at a Policymakers Party that was held Thursday at the historic Avalon Hollywood theater in ...

MINNEAPOLIS >> De is Green, the trailblazing coach who led a Mi esota Vikings renaissance in the 1990s before a less successful run with the Arizona Cardinals, has died. He was 67. Green’s family posted a message Friday on the Cardinals website’ a ouncing the death. “His family was by his side and h...

All those slithering, nasty black snakes? Gone. Yes, all of them. So are thousands of golf balls, car doors and chunks of metal debris. It was all sucked out of Machado Lake, along with 246,000 cubic yards of polluted sediment, at Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park on the border of Wilmington and Harbo...

SAN DIEGO >> Bringing spirits home and frequent nightmares are all par for the course when you’re a paranormal investigator. Or at least that’s what has happened to the stars of the Destination America television series “Paranormal Lockdown,” Kindred Spirits,” and “Haunted Collector.” “Our houses ar...

Gov. Jerry Brown Friday rejected parole for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted of the 1969 killings of grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca at their Los Feliz home. A state parole board had recommended in April that Van Houten, now 66, be paroled. “When considered as ...

SAINT-GERVAIS-LES-BAINS, France >> Rain and crashes played havoc at the Tour de France on Friday as Chris Froome hit the ground and Romain Bardet posted the first French victory at this year’s race. Froome quickly borrowed a teammate’s bike and kept the now to yellow jersey after crossing the finish...

ORLANDO, Florida >> Hillary Clinton a ounced Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her ru ing mate Friday. Active in the Senate on foreign relations and military affairs, Kaine has a reputation for working with both parties as Virginia’s gove or and Richmond’s mayor. Clinton made no mention of her impending pi...

County officials from across the country gathered Friday at the Long Beach Convention Center to lea more about the opioid epidemic, which many experts in health and law enforcement are calling the worst drug crisis in American history. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...

Califo ia employers added 40,300 jobs in June and the Golden State led the nation in year-over-year growth with 461,100 jobs added, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. Last month’s increase was more than double the amount of jobs added the previous month and Califo ia’s a ua...

CASTAIC >> State water officials wa ed visitors to Pyramid Lake Friday that a toxic algae bloom continues to make the water unsafe for swimming and other recreational activities. The latest samples still show microcystin toxins in harmful amounts, according to the Department of Water Resources. The ...

ORLANDO, Florida — Hillary Clinton will introduce her ru ing mate Friday, seeking to snatch attention from newly crowned Republican nominee Donald Trump just hours after he closed out his convention with a fiery and foreboding tu at the podium. A person familiar with the Clinton campaign’s plans sai...

More than a dozen lifeguards, police officers and firefighters mounted an all-out search Friday for a reportedly inebriated man reported missing after he jumped off the Manhattan Beach Pier. Lifeguards on boats and at least one in the water in the dark began the search about 2:30 a.m. when someone o...

Dottie May Frazier was all smiles as she went soaring over trees and water, clutching a zipline 7,000 feet high in the crisp air of the San Be ardino Mountains. Her first zipline flight was so exhilarating, she said, “Let’s do that again.” And she did. Frazier, a living legend with many firsts on he...

MUNICH — Munich police wa ed people to stay inside and avoid public places Friday as they hunted for the shooter or shooters who opened fire at a shopping mall, killing six people and wounding others in a rampage they described as suspected terrorism. “At the moment no culprit has been arrested,” po...

A 27-year-old Lancaster man who was seen on live online video allegedly starting fires in a remote area of Los Angeles County was charged with starting a brush fire, the L.A. County District Atto ey’s Office a ounced today. David Artiaga faces one felony count each of arson of a forest and arson of ...

MUNICH — Munich police wa ed people to avoid public places Friday as they hunted for the shooter or shooters who opened fire at a shopping mall, killing six people and wounding others in a rampage described as “suspected terrorism,” police and media reports said. “At the moment no culprit has been a...

New development plans appear to be in the works at Seaport Marina Hotel, the site of the one of the most contentious – and ultimately unsuccessful – project proposals in recent city history. Ownership of the hotel, situated at the southwest co er of one of the city’s most congested intersections, ha...

LOS ANGELES — A few delays were reported today for Southwest Airlines flights at Los Angeles Inte ational Airport, as the airline continued to recover from a massive computer glitch that temporarily halted all of its flights. According to the LAX website, four Southwest arrivals and four departures ...

SAINT-GERVAIS-LES-BAINS, France — Rain and crashes played havoc at the Tour de France on Friday as Chris Froome hit the ground and Romain Bardet posted the first French victory at this year’s race. Froome quickly borrowed a teammate’s bike and kept the now to yellow jersey after crossing the finish ...

LONG BEACH — All coastal beaches in Long Beach remain closed following Monday’s 2.4 million-gallon sewage spill near downtown Los Angeles, even after a stretch of coastline in Seal Beach was reopened to swimmers and surfers on Thursday following a roughly three-day closure. The Orange County Health ...