IRVINE — Former USC star and Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich was arrested after he was found naked with marijuana in someone else’s backyard, police said Monday. The 47-year-old was cited for trespassing, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphe alia and possession of mar...

Ryan Lochte lost two major sponsors when Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren a ounced Monday they were dumping the swimmer over a drunken incident during the Rio Olympics that he initially described as an armed robbery. Speedo USA also said it would donate $50,000 of Lochte’s fee to Save The Children to ben...

A 28-year-old man was convicted Monday of robbery and burglary but acquitted of a murder charge stemming from the death of his female cohort, who was shot by an 80-year-old homeowner during a break-in at a Bixby Knolls residence. Jurors found Gus Polly Adams guilty of one count each of first-degree ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration’s order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity. In a temporary injunction signed Sunday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Co or ru...

WASHINGTON — The State Department said Monday it is reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI’s now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Hillary Clinton’s private home server. Lawyers for the department told U.S....

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — It was a very busy, very lucrative weekend for Hillary Clinton in the summer playground of the East Coast’s moneyed elite. She brunched with wealthy backers at a seaside estate in Nantucket, snacking on shrimp dumplings and crabcakes. A few hours later, she and her husband dine...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Inte ational Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach chose a curious way over the weekend to try to spin the Rio Olympic Games as a success. “I think this is a really iconic games,” Bach said. “It is also games in the middle of reality. They were not organized in a bubble. They wer...

It was another golden summer for Long Beach and neighboring communities, as the Press-Telegram area’s athletes tu ed out an impressive haul of Olympic medals and memories. In all, the unofficial Team Long Beach delegation are coming back home with three gold medals and a bronze. Two of the gold meda...

BEIJING >> For the Olympics, it’s so-long Rio, hello Asia. The next three Olympics are headed for relatively calmer ports of call in South Korea, Japan and China following the organizational drama surrounding the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia and the just completed Summer Games in Brazil, although ...

Near the co er of Linden Avenue and East Sixth Street in Long Beach, a decades-old apartment building, with a skirt of dead grass out front and a back laundry room with piles of dead flies, slouches in the shadow of a building with new lofts offering wood-style plank floors and pendant lights. A one...

SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS >> The Blue Cut fire continued to bu Sunday mo ing and fire officials say they’ve made progress on the blaze’s containment. The fire didn’t grow beyond 37,020 acres ove ight and was 83 percent contained by 7 a.m. according a news release from the U.S. Forest Service. As of S...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Matthew Centrowitz, gold medal around his neck, was still trying to find his bearings at the dizzying height of the top step on the Olympic Stadium medal podium Saturday night when he was approached by Lord Sebastian Coe. Coe, the president of the track and field’s global gove ing ...

NEW YORK >> American swimmer Ryan Lochte said he over-exaggerated what happened at a Rio de Janeiro gas station and acknowledged it was his “immature behavior” that got him and three teammates into a mess that consumed the final days of the Olympics. Lochte, in a portion of an interview with NBC’s M...

DEL MAR >> Remember when some were calling Califo ia Chrome a weak Kentucky Derby wi er in 2014? Some in Louisville cringed the day he won the country’s most famous horse race. He wasn’t a mile and a quarter horse, they claimed beforehand. Wonder what those same folks are saying today after Califo i...

Michael Cacciotti walked the dimensions of the concrete Wilson Reservoir in the blazing sun, pleased to find almost no shade and triple digit temperatures. For about $375,000, the city is considering affixing rows of photovoltaic panels on top of the 20-foot deep reservoir and using the sun’s power ...

HAWAIIAN GARDENS >> Earthy colors such as sandstone, amber and terra cotta set the tone inside The Gardens Casino, a Southland gambling destination on the verge of completing a $90-million transformation. The project, which attracted a visit from Gov. Jerry Brown nearly three years ago, has been cal...

Kathy Creighton was 16 when she landed what was her first summer job: squeezing oranges and working the cash register at the Orange Julius in San Pedro’s bustling Ports O’ Call Village. “We had these very ugly brown and yellow, itchy polyester uniforms we had to wear,” Creighton said. “We went home ...

Three additional arrests were made this week in the evacuation areas of the Blue Cut fire, according to the San Be ardino County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies arrested three people Thursday on suspicion of trying to steal a flatbed truck from an area evacuated. • Day 5 Coverage: Ove ight progress o...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> The Paralympics will go ahead in Rio next month but organizers say deep budget cuts mean one venue will close down, facilities will be dismantled and the workforce will be reduced. Poor ticket sales have compounded existing financial challenges in recession-battered Brazil that hav...

ST. AMANT, La. >> Louisiana continues to dig itself out from devastating floods, with search parties going door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding so powerful in some cases it disturbed the dead and sent caskets floating from cemeteries. At least 13 people died in the floodi...