When the nation casts its spotlight on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s stellar accomplishments, Pasadena triumphantly shares in the glow. The shadow cast by the pair of local giants seems to obscure the little sign nestled outside of JPL’s campus that reads: “Welcome to the City of Lau2009Cañada ...

CORONA — A man initially reported to match the description of a serial killer linked to seven Arizona deaths was taken into custody today in Corona following a pursuit and subsequent standoff with authorities. However, Phoenix police tell City News Service the man arrested following the chase is not...

UPDATE: The stream HAS ENDED. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is live-streaming today’s a ouncement of the nominations for the 2016 Emmy Awards begi ing at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time. As of 8:30 a.m., 15,000+ viewers were watching the live stream as Lauren Graham of “Gilmore Girls,” and Anth...

LOS ANGELES — “Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson may want to practice looking surprised and humble before helping to a ounce this year’s Emmy contenders on Thursday mo ing. He and the critically acclaimed comedy series could be getting a lot of TV academy love if voters keep pace with the medium’s in...

CORONA — Phoenix police tell City News Service their search for a serial killer and the man stopped following a pursuit from Costa Mesa are unrelated. A CHP official in Riverside is working to confirm reports the man arrested had a pellet gun. The man, who was initially man reported to match the des...

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is live-streaming today’s a ouncement of the nominations for the 2016 Emmy Awards begi ing at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time. • On your mobile device, find the live stream here. • NOMINATION SPECULATION: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Veep,’ ‘Black-ish’ vie for hotly contest...

Big rigs are rolling in and out of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports faster thanks in part to the wider use of a trucker appointment system, according to marine terminal operators that run the gate system. So-called tu times, the minutes it takes for a trucker to pull into a terminal, load up or ...

LOS ANGELES >> No welcome message played. No opening graphic rolled. No music was cued. It was just a shot of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony standing in the center of the Microsoft Theater stage, dressed in all black, looking straight into the camera. The four NBA players ...

Wilmington, San Pedro and Redondo Beach all made it into the top five local communities with the most homeless people in a new regional breakdown released Wednesday. The South Bay-Harbor Area statistics, based on the January 2016 homeless count, are broken down by city to assist local agencies, nonp...

TROON, Scotland >> The smile spoke louder than anything Dustin Johnson had to say Wednesday at the British Open. His game has never been better. Just one month ago, Johnson was known as golf’s best athlete who had won every year he has been on the PGA Tour — the longest streak since Tiger Woods — bu...

No more excuses for being late, San Pedro. As of about 2 p.m. Wednesday, the giant clock that had kept everyone on time for decades began working again. Built in 1942 on what was the town’s new Municipal Ferry Building, the timepiece has been an iconic part of the waterfront, visible far and wide fr...

The three sons of a 91-year-old Long Beach man who was struck by a truck and killed on Veterans Day while riding a motor scooter in Signal Hill filed a wrongful death suit today against the truck driver and his employer. Joseph, John and Raymond Lopez Jr. filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Co...

An effort to finalize plans to gradually raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 by 2021 has been placed on hold to allow time for the city to negotiate with its largest labor union. The City Council on Tuesday night nearly voted to exclude city workers from the ordinance because of a hitch in the barg...

Southwest Airlines, Long Beach Airport’s newest passenger carrier, has permission to temporarily expand its operations at the airport later this year, city officials a ounced Wednesday. The airline has operated at LGB for a little more than a month. Southwest has offered four daily flights from LGB ...

Louise Olin knows firsthand the devastation a few seconds of distraction behind the wheel can cause. Her husband Milton Olin, Jr. — a prominent entertainment atto ey — was cycling in Calabasas in late 2013 when he was fatally stuck by a patrol car driven by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who ...

Southwest Airlines, Long Beach Airport’s newest passenger carrier, has permission to temporarily expand its operations at the airport during the latter months of this year, according to an a ouncement from Long Beach’s city gove ment. The airline has operated at LGB for a little more than a month. S...

State water officials are urging people to avoid any contact with the water at Pyramid Lake because of a toxic algae bloom that has developed on the Los Angeles County reservoir. In a statement issued Tuesday, the Califo ia Department of Water Resources advised the public to not wade, swim or water-...

We came to bury Pokemon, not to praise it. We had it all pla ed; a chronicling of the heroic capture of what was to have been our last Pokemon, a Zubat (a purple bat) that took us about a dozen Poke balls to bring to ground. We opened our Pokemon app to go to the Pokedex which categorizes our captur...

At first, Lucie Hutchins didn't want to lose her Cameroonian passport. She moved to Maine in 1998 because her daughter needed a life-saving heart surgery and ended up staying. She got married and began her career as a software engineer. At that time, from 1980 to 2009, the population of people in th...

Los Angeles, San Fe ando Valley, Santa Monica area Outfest Los Angeles: LGBT film festival. Movies begin: 5 p.m. July 13-15; 11:30 a.m. July 16. Tickets $15. Check website for schedule and venues. 213-480-7065. www.outfest.org “Ya ”: A 2016 documentary about knitters and inte ational artists using t...