Southwest Airlines flights halted by computer glitch A Southwest jet arrives at the Bob Hope Burbank Airport (March 11, 2014 file photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News) By City News Service A system-wide computer issue this afte oon has halted Southwest Airlines flights at LAX and other airpor...

The city wants residents to consider approving a tax measure on medical and recreational marijuana to help offset enforcement costs should voters pass one or more citizen-backed ballot measures come November. Vice Mayor Rex Richardson said the city needs to consider putting a safeguard in place to c...

With a heat wave hitting the region today, the ocean at all coastal beaches in Long Beach and a portion of Seal Beach remained off limits to swimmers and surfers due to millions of gallons of sewage that spilled from a ruptured pipe near downtown Los Angeles and cascaded to the coastline. According ...

Liar. Lucifer. Lock her up. Republicans may have mixed feelings about nominating Donald Trump for president, but one thing they can all rally around is a deep dislike for Democrat Hillary Clinton. Convention speakers have “prosecuted” Clinton at a mock trial, accused her of being a serial liar and e...

Councilman Rex Richardson was elected vice mayor of Long Beach by his peers on the City Council Tuesday night during a reorganization of the council after Suja Lowenthal’s departure. At 32, the councilman is the youngest person in city history to hold the position. He is also the first African Ameri...

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles-based former professional cyclist, who is ba ed for life from competition due to doping violations, is expected to be sentenced today for selling performance-enhancing drugs imported from overseas in violation of federal law. Nick Brandt-Sorenson, 35, faces up to a year i...

MOSCOW — Russia’s top Olympic official expects a final decision by Sunday on whether the entire Russian team will be ba ed from next month’s games in Rio de Janeiro over allegations of state-sponsored doping. The Inte ational Olympic Committee is examining the legal options of a blanket ban followin...

LONG BEACH — A memorial service will be held today for a Long Beach police dog who was fatally shot while working to apprehend a knife-wielding suspect who was also killed in the gunfire. Credo, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois, was killed June 28 as police were trying to arrest a suspect wanted in co ...

LOS ANGELES — The Southland’s mild weather will give way to a mini heat wave begi ing today, with forecasters predicting temperatures well above normal by week’s end. High pressure is expected to settle over the area begi ing today, lessening the marine layer and ushering in warmer weather. “By Frid...

Coroner identifies body found in Alamitos Bay in Long Beach By City News Service LONG BEACH (CNS) - The coroner’s office today released the name of a man whose body washed ashore in the Alamitos Bay area of Long Beach. He was 55-year-old Christopher Martin of Long Beach, coroner’s Lt. Larry Dietz sa...

In 2008, Jean Perry left the GOP and joined the Democratic Party as part of her support for Barack Obama. Four years later, she voted to re-elect him. This year, she’s a Republican again. And she’s an enthusiastic delegate for Donald Trump. “I’m a flipper,” said the resident of Baldwin Hills, southw...

CLEVELAND >> In Cuyahoga County, as in most of Ohio, Gov.u2009John Kasich had broad support on the way to his Marchu200915 Republican primary win over Donald Trump. Trump, who won the official nomination Tuesday during the roll call at the Republican National Convention, lost Ohio to Kasich by 11u20...

CLEVELAND >> Cementing an extraordinary political takeover, Republicans nominated Donald Trump on Tuesday night as their presidential standard-bearer, hitching their hopes of keeping Democrat Hillary Clinton out of the White House on an unorthodox candidate who has sown divisions within the party an...

Six months after a $1.6 billion Powerball lottery jackpot set records, the holder of the wi ing ticket bought at a Chino Hills 7-Eleven has finally come forward. Marvin and Mae Acosta were a ounced as the wi ers in a tweet from the Califo ia Lottery Tuesday mo ing. Their home town was not revealed, ...

CLEVELAND >> Chris Hume took a red-eye from Los Angeles to stand in the hot sun to yell this out to people passing by his kiosk on wheels: “Make America toot again!” The 50-year-old took time off work to pack 200 whoopee cushions with a picture of Donald Trump on it and was selling them outside the ...

The Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education on Monday unanimously approved name changes for three schools, as well as for a few district facilities. Despite some opposition, the board approved a motion for Inte ational Elementary to be renamed Je y Oropeza Elementary School, in honor o...

A 25-year-old Long Beach man was in custody Monday after Irvine police arrested him on suspicion of involvement in a string of “knock-knock” scam home burglaries. Willy San was being held on $500,000 bail at the Theo Lacy Facility, according to jail records. He was arrested Friday after investigator...

A pipeline burst in downtown Los Angeles Monday, releasing an estimated 2.45 million gallons of raw sewage into the Los Angeles River, which flowed into Long Beach Harbor late Monday and into Tuesday, prompting several beach closures along the coastline, according to Long Beach Health officials. Lon...

Six months after a $1.6 billion Powerball lottery jackpot set records, the holder of the wi ing ticket bought at a Chino Hills 7-Eleven has finally come forward. “Chino Hills HUGE wi er finally claims,” a tweet from the Califo ia Lottery at 9:03 a.m. Tuesday. Marvin and Mae Acosta were a ounced as t...

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