BATON ROUGE, La. >> Three officers are confirmed dead and three others wounded after a shooting in Baton Rouge, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman said Sunday. One suspect is dead and law enforcement officials believe two others are still at large, the spokeswoman said. Casey Raybo Hicks, a spokeswoman ...

Carson Mayor Al Robles will meet with county prosecutors Monday to defend his right to hold office on the gove ing board that manages groundwater resources in the South Bay, Long Beach and San Gabriel Valley. The Los Angeles County District Atto ey’s Office is suing to force Robles to step down from...

PALM COAST, Fla. >> Authorities say a Florida man fired shots at two late-night “Pokemon Go” players in a car outside his house but no one was injured. Flagler County Sheriff’s Office spokesman James Troiano says in a news release that the homeowner awoke to a noise outside about 1:30 a.m. Saturday ...

Artist James Haunt’s mural for Long Beach’s Pow! Wow! art event nears completion By Long Beach Press-Telegram Saturday was expected to be the day for the unveiling of the mural painted by Los Angeles artist James Haunt for the city-wide Pow! Wow! art event, but a family emergency kept Haunt from fin...

On July 3, some 700 people enjoyed the fifth a ual Big Bang on the Bay, making it the best attended Big Bang event so far. There were many families and all ages attending the block party and a full house at the Boathouse on the Bay restaurant, where the guests had reserved best seats for the show. “...

The leadership of Intellectual Virtues Academy, a Long Beach charter school, has revealed where its first class of ninth grade students will attend school. The school’s incoming class of high school freshmen will study on the former grounds of New City Public Schools, a charter school that lost its ...

SAN DIEGO >> Much like the fictional superheroes who work together to keep the world safe, a real-life team of public safety, city, county and federal agencies, along with Comic-Con Inte ational officials, have joined forces to keep a watchful eye over the nearly 200,000 comic book and pop culture e...

SpaceX launching space station docking port for NASA Home → News → Space exploration By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. >> SpaceX aims to launch another load of space station supplies for NASA, including a critical docking port needed by new U.S. crew capsules set to debut ...

Donald Trump was angry: A reporter had the gall to suggest his purchase of New York’s famed Plaza Hotel was driven by ego. When he thought about it, though, he decided it was true — and admitted as much in a big, big way. “Almost every deal I have ever done has been at least partly for my ego,” the ...

Mark Vafiades first knew he was a Republican when his then Democrat-controlled state gove ment tried to regulate his guns — as well as mess with his muscular 1972 Barracuda. Now the Los Angeles County GOP leader is revved up to serve as a delegate next week at his first GOP National Convention. And ...

LOS ANGELES >> The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a 27-year-old man with ties to Los Angeles and Orange counties who is suspected of killing his wife at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The body of Iris Armstrong, a human resources specialist assigned to the 189t...

Small, fast and powerful, the swift boat was ideally suited to patrol the coastline and jungle-lined rivers of Vietnam. At about noon Sunday, that history will power into the Port of Los Angeles, where Swift Boat PCF-816 will be docked through Thursday at San Pedro’s Downtown Harbor — near Fifth Str...

FORT WORTH, Texas >> Hundreds of law enforcement officers from across the country have joined with Navy perso el to honor Patrick Zamarripa, one of the officers slain last week in Dallas by a gunman. A traditional Catholic funeral service was held Saturday in Fort Worth for the 32-year-old Zamarripa...

LUXEMBOURG >> The Obama administration would entertain an extradition request for the U.S.-based cleric that Turkey’s president is blaming for a failed coup attempt, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday. But he said Turkey’s gove ment would have to prove Fethullah Gulen’s wrongdoing. Vis...

NEW YORK >> His ru ing mate largely unknown to the public, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is introducing Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a steady conservative with gove ing experience inside and outside of Washington. Trump and Pence will appear together Saturday mo ing at a midtown Manhatt...

14 shot outside Bakersfield house party By the Associated Press BAKERSFIELD >> Authorities say attackers have shot and wounded 14 people, two critically, in an attack on a crowd outside a house party in Southe Califo ia. The Ke County Sheriff’s Office says about 150 people were attending the party i...

Local lawmakers on Friday demanded to know why Southe Califo ia was shut out of the inaugural round of federal transportation grants aimed at improving freight movement to and from ports, highways and rail. A letter sent Friday to Anthony Foxx, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, led...

NICE, France >> France called up thousands of reserve security forces Friday as authorities tried to determine why a Tunisian deliveryman known only to be a petty criminal took the wheel of a 19-ton truck and plunged through a terrified seaside crowd on Bastille Day, leaving 84 people dead and more ...

ANKARA, Turkey >> Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the nation Saturday that his gove ment is in charge after a coup attempt brought a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire across the capital that left dozens dead and at least 150 people wounded. Gove ment officials said the coup ap...

Today: High 90-96. Mostly su y. Light winds will increase to 15 mph in the afte oon. Sunday: High 91-96. Mostly su y. Light winds will increase to 15 mph in the afte oon. Monday: High 92-97. Mostly su y. Tuesday: High 95-100. Mostly su y. Wednesday: High 96-101. Mostly su y in the mo ing, becoming p...