SAN DIEGO >> Play laser tag with the Nerdist crew? Lea archery and play board games with Geek & Sundry? Yes, please! Camp Conival is retu ing to Petco Park, 100 Park Blvd., for the third year and it’s everything you’ve ever wanted summer camp to be. The a ual event, which coincides with Comic-Con In...

BERN, Switzerland — British sprinter Mark Cavendish has withdrawn from the Tour de France in a bid to improve his medal chances at next month’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Team Dimension Data made the a ouncement Tuesday on the race’s second and final rest day, with five stages remaining. Cavendish ...

North Neighborhood Library in Long Beach is scheduled to close at the end of the month so workers can move the branch’s books and other collections to the pla ed Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library. Long Beach city officials a ounced the plans on Tuesday. North Neighborhood Library is at 5571 Orange...

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...

CLEVELAND — The Trump campaign on Tuesday dismissed criticism that Melania Trump directly lifted two passages nearly word-for-word from the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention, calling the complaints “just absurd.” • PHOTOS: Melania Trump spe...

There are plenty of business-related activities going on in Southe Califo ia at any given time. But few are as important as the business of fighting fires. It’s dirty, it’s hard work and it’s often very dangerous. I realize that “business” may not exactly be the right word. But regardless of what yo...

CLEVELAND — The Trump campaign on Tuesday dismissed criticism that Melania Trump directly lifted two passages nearly word-for-word from the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention, calling the complaints “just absurd.” Trump campaign chairman Pau...

The Hollywood stuntman doesn’t want to follow in his idol’s footsteps so much as rocket above them — over a gaping canyon, no less. Evel Knievel’s iconic launch, Take II. Eddie Braun, fueled by the memory of the late daredevil, plans to strap into a steam-powered rocket cycle on Sept. 17 for his mos...

LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday endorsed Califo ia Atto ey General Kamala Harris to be the state’s next U.S. senator. In a statement, the president called Harris “a lifelong courtroom prosecutor with only one client: the people of the state of Califo ia.”...

CLEVELAND >> Melania Trump’s well-received speech Monday to the Republican National Convention contained two passages that match nearly word-for-word the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention. The passages in question focus on lessons that Mrs....

LOS ANGELES >> A judge has rejected arguments to dismiss charges against two former Los Angeles County social workers and their supervisors, charged with child abuse and falsifying records that resulted from the death of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy. Defendants Stefanie Rodriguez, 31, and Patricia Cle...

A key plank in the GOP convention’s Monday night theme, “Make America Safe Again,” was the need to address crimes by undocumented immigrants. The message was boldly underlined by speeches from three parents who were killed by men in the country illegally, two of whom are from Southe Califo ia. Jamie...

Home-sharing company Airbnb will begin paying lodging taxes to the city of Los Angeles under a three-year deal a ounced Monday that could bring nearly $6 million each year to the city. Starting Aug. 1, Airbnb will collect the tax from guests staying at Airbnb’s short-term rental properties. Hotels a...

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president of Long Beach Community College District since 2007, will serve as the next chancellor of the Califo ia Community College’s 113-school system. Geoffrey Baum, president of the system’s Board of Gove ors, a ounced Oakley’s hiring at the outset of a Monday board meeting, wh...

Los Angeles County sheriff’s union leader George Hofstetter has a stark wa ing: words can kill. Hofstetter believes recent “verbal attacks on police” including by politicians, the media and Black Lives Matter activists contributed to the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers on July 7 and l...

After watching her 13-year-old son throw up everything he ate when they got home from a day of jet skiing at Pyramid Lake, Sharyn Martinez was angered to lea last week that the state is now urging the public to avoid the water there because of a toxic algal bloom. Martinez and her family were at the...

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president of Long Beach Community College District since 2007, will serve as the next chancellor of the Califo ia Community College’s 113-school system. Geoffrey Baum, president of the system’s Board of Gove ors, a ounced Oakley’s hiring at the outset of a Monday board meeting, wh...

Home-sharing company Airbnb will begin paying lodging taxes to the city of Los Angeles under a three-year deal a ounced Monday that could bring nearly $6 million each year to the city. Starting Aug. 1, Airbnb will collect the tax from guests staying at Airbnb’s short-term rental properties. Hotels a...

In a tu of events that stu ed a packed courtroom, a federal judge rejected former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca’s plea agreement with prosecutors on Monday, saying it was not tough enough. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson ordered Baca and his atto eys to retu to court Aug. 1, when the judge ...

The woman was discovered about 6:15 a.m. in the 1100 block of East Bitterlake Street, deputies said. A bus driver spotted her in the gutter. She was pronounced dead at the scene. No other information was immediately released. Anyone with information on the case was urged to call the sheriff’s Homici...