ANDORRA LA VELLA, Andorra — Chris Froome has the yellow jersey, Mark Cavendish has won three sprint stages, and Adam Yates sits second in the overall standings. It has been a very successful start to the Tour de France for British cyclists. “It’s definitely not a fluke,” Froome said on Monday as the...

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Police made nearly 200 arrests in Louisiana’s capital city during weekend protests around the country in which people angry over police killings of young black men sought to block some major interstates. Riot police in full gear stopped protesters in Baton Rouge from walking...

Police are searching for the driver of a stolen vehicle that fled the scene after hitting a woman on her bicycle early Saturday in North Long Beach. The woman was transported to a local hospital where she later died from her injuries, police said this mo ing. The Long Beach Police Department said of...

TROON, Scotland — Jason Day is more motivated by failure than success, which helps explain how he reached No. 1 in the world. And it all started last year at the British Open. Day had never felt so calm in the midst of such raging emotion that being in contention at a major can bring. He had an i at...

A brush fire that erupted Saturday near Santa Clarita that has bu ed more than 1,100 acres and injured two firefighters is now 65 percent contained, Los Angeles County fire officials said Monday mo ing. The Sage Fire was first reported about 12:05 u2009p.m. Saturday in the 24900 u2009block of The Ol...

INGLEWOOD — Hundreds of Black Lives Matters protesters marched in Inglewood, blocked an intersection and stopped traffic on the San Diego (405) Freeway, but dispersed after midnight with little police intervention, authorities said. The protesters shut down traffic at the intersection of Manchester ...

DALLAS >> Police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Mi esota were followed by calls from black militant groups and others to seek vengeance against officers. Almost immediately, several officers were attacked, including the five slain by a sniper in Dallas. Now authorities are investigating whe...

LAPD Detective Brent Hopkins was finishing up some reports late Thursday night, writing up why some of the suspects taken into custody should be exonerated and kept out of jail, when he could hear sniper fire and panicked voices. Inside the West LA Area police station where he works, he saw the imag...

A brush fire that erupted Saturday west of Santa Clarita — and injured two firefighters — had bu ed more than 1,100 acres and was 49 percent contained as of Sunday evening, according to Los Angeles County fire officials. Residents who had evacuated Saturday from some 700 homes in the Stevenson Ranch...

Years ago, Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal swore off ever ru ing for public office. As an urban pla er, she said she was happier behind the scenes, envisioning future development. But she soon found the best way to tu her dreams into reality would be through local gove ment. “I think, just by nature, urba...

Water suppliers are loosening water-use restrictions and reporting they’ll have enough water to meet demand for three years. But is that a good idea in the midst of an ongoing drought? Although the end of the state’s mandated water conservation targets is intended to give agencies more flexibility, ...

This week’s Mailbag is as farflung as it gets, both in terms of distance and subject. Our inordinately ardent following in New South Wales, Australia, coughed up an interesting item from Phil Ross, who lives on the east coast of NSW: a copy of a lease from the Jergins Trust Building. “My late father...

Some Cal State Long Beach students may find a home in downtown if the city agrees to sell a prime parcel on the co er of East Broadway and Long Beach Boulevard to a developer for $7.8 million. The City Council on Tuesday will consider an agreement to sell a former redevelopment property to a develop...

DALLAS >> Police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Mi esota were followed by calls from black militant groups and others to seek vengeance against officers. Almost immediately, several officers were attacked, including the five slain by a sniper in Dallas. Authorities are now investigating whe...

ST. PAUL, Mi . (AP) — Police arrested about 100 people in the Mi esota capital of St. Paul during protests over the recent police killings of black men, including one in a nearby suburb. Authorities said 21 St. Paul officers and six state troopers were hurt during the fracas late Saturday and early ...

DALLAS >> The suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police taunted authorities during two hours of negotiations, laughing at them, singing and at one point asking how many officer he had shot, the police chief said Sunday. Micah Johnson, a black Army veteran, insisted on speaking with a black negot...

The Sage fire near Santa Clarita was 20 percent contained as of 8:30 a.m. Sunday and had bu ed more than 1,100 acres, according to Los Angeles County fire officials. Residents who had evacuated from 700 homes in the Stevenson Ranch area were allowed to retu home Saturday night, according to L.A. Cou...

COMPTON >> A 26-year-old woman was wounded and her 15-month-old son escaped with no injuries when an unknown number of suspects fired several shots into her black SUV as she drove down a street in Compton, a sheriff’s sergeant said today. The woman was listed in stable condition at an area hospital,...

SANTA CLARITA >> Residents evacuated from 700 homes due to the 800-acre Sage Fire near Santa Clarita have been allowed to go home, authorities said. The evacuations were lifted at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, said Los Angeles County Fire Department Inspector Gustavo Medina. The cause of the blaze was under i...

LA County gas prices continue to drop File photo By City News Service LOS ANGELES >> The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped six-tenths of a cent Sunday to $2.946, the fifth consecutive decrease after rising to its highest amount since Jan. 14. The ...