TOKYO >> Japan’s ruling coalition was a clear wi er in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, preliminary results and Japanese media exit polls indicated, paving the way for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to push ahead with his economic revival policies, but also possibly changing the nation’s postwar pacifis...

ST. PAUL, Mi . >> Police used smoke bombs to clear demonstrators blocking Interstate 94 in St. Paul late Saturday night during a protest sparked by the recent police killings of black men in Mi esota and Louisiana. The smoke was used after about 200 protesters refused to leave the roadway just after...

NEW YORK >> Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash “Hamilton,” made a subdued final bow Saturday alongside two other departing stars in the show that has become a cultural phenomenon. The performance Saturday at the Richard Rodgers Theatre was also the last for Leslie Odom Jr...

It’s a classic battle between a powerful company trying to develop an industrial project and a low-income community in its path that’s already besieged by pollution. And it’s about to take a pivotal tu . Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northe Santa Fe Railway Co. has been in a decadelong fight to build ...

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City officials will ask the City Council next week to spend another $1.6 million to help Mental Health America build a new service facility on Long Beach Boulevard. Long Beach leased MHA the buildings at 1955-65 Long Beach Blvd. in 2015 with an option to buy the property for $1 after 10 years. The c...

SANTA CLARITA >> A brush fire ignited just west of Santa Clarita Saturday afte oon, growing to more than 800 acres in size by 5 p.m. and prompting neighborhood evacuations in the path of the spreading flames, officials said. The wildfire was 15 percent contained, authorities said, adding that two fi...

It’s a classic battle between a powerful company trying to develop an industrial project and a low-income community in its path that’s already besieged by pollution. And it’s about to take a pivotal tu . Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northe Santa Fe Railway Co. has been in a decadelong fight to build ...

City officials will ask the City Council next week to spend another $1.6 million to help Mental Health America build a new service facility on Long Beach Boulevard. Long Beach leased MHA the buildings at 1955-65 Long Beach Blvd. in 2015 with an option to buy the property for $1 after 10 years. The c...

In the wake a series of shocking police shootings that culminated in the assassination last week of five Dallas officers, our nation is becoming crippled by suspicion and anger. Never before in this nation’s history, rank-and-file officers and police chiefs agree, has fear and loathing for men and w...

Doug and Freda Hinsche Otto, last year’s honorees, presented the prestigious Cottonwood Award to former Mayor Bob and Nancy Foster at the Rancho Los Alamitos’ fifth a ual Cottonwood Award luncheon on May 26. The award is given a ually to individuals who have shown outstanding leadership in valuing a...

“America is not as divided as some have suggested,” President Barack Obama said Saturday, spu ing the notion that a week of jolting violence is a signal that the U.S. has retu ed to the darkest days of its past. “Americans of all races and all backgrounds are rightly outraged by the inexcusable atta...

EASTVALE >> Streets were blocked for a short time during a Black Lives Matter rally in Eastvale Saturday. Over 100 people of various races, religions and backgrounds took part in the march, which started about 1 p.m. with a gathering at the co er of Limonite and Hamner avenues. It continued with abo...

SANTA CLARITA >> A brush fire ignited just west of Santa Clarita Saturday afte oon, growing to more than 700 acres in size by 5 p.m. and prompting neighborhood evacuations in the path of the spreading flames, officials said. Dubbed the Sage Fire, it was first reported about 12:05 p.m. at The Old Roa...

Hotel reservations are going fast, traffic wonks are huddled over their maps and you can almost hear the strains of “Anchors Aweigh” as San Pedro anticipates its collective end-of-summer Navy salute. With Thursday’s launch of the official website, the scramble is on to finalize plans for the inaugur...

SANTA CLARITA >> A brush fire ignited just west of Santa Clarita Saturday afte oon, quickly growing to more than 450 acres in size and prompting neighborhood evacuations in the path of the spreading flames, officials said. The fire was first reported about 12:05 p.m. at The Old Road and Calgrove Bou...

SAN BERNARDINO >> Police released more details Saturday mo ing in the fatal shooting of two men and a 9-year-old boy as friends paid tribute to the victims outside of a San Be ardino liquor store. Samathy Mahan, 25, Travon “Hefty” Lamar Williams, 26, and Travon Williams, 9, all of San Be ardino were...

Join LA Dodgers beat reporters on InsideSoCal Sports Facebook page Los Angeles Dodgers Yasmani Grandal celebrates his homerun against San Diego Padres in a Major League Baseball game in Los Angeles, CA. Friday, July 8, 2016. (Thomas R. Cordova/Southe Califo ia News Group) By Staff Report The Los Ang...

SAN FRANCISCO >> Donald Trump has promised to liven up this year’s Republican National Convention. But some of America’s biggest corporations are bailing on the party. Apple recently became the latest company to give the GOP’s presumptive nominee the cold shoulder; it won’t contribute money or produ...

WASHINGTON >> The Islamic State group’s Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the Obama administration says, as the U.S. and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood of online images and statements about suffering and enslavement at the hands of...