KHANKE, Iraq — The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is “Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old. ... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon.” The posting in Arabic appeared on an encrypted conversation along with ads for kittens, weapons...

PRETORIA, South Africa — Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian described by a judge as a “fallen hero,” was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in a South African prison for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in a ruling viewed by some as too lenient. • PHOTOS: Oscar Pistorius gets 6-y...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to leave around 8,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he finishes his term, people briefed on the plan said Wednesday, an increase from his previous plan that reflects the difficulty for the U.S. in drawing down the conflict. Obama had pla ed to drop troop l...

SigAlert on northbound 5 Freeway in Commerce due to fatal collision By City News Service A SigAlert has been issued this mo ing on the northbound Santa Ana (5) Freeway north of Garfield Avenue in Commerce due to a fatal collision, according to the Califo ia Highway Patrol. Two lanes will be blocked ...

A woman was stabbed in the upper body early this mo ing in a fight with another woman near downtown Long Beach police said. Police responded at 12:09 a.m. to a call for service near East 7th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, said Long Beach police Lt. Mark Coble. The woman was taken to a nea...

CUDAHY — A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded in the Cudahy area of unincorporated Los Angeles County today, authorities said. Homicide detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to the 5000 block of Elizabeth Street, just west of the Long Beach (710) Freeway, at...

The newly formed Providence St. Joseph Health, which on Friday became the nation’s third-largest nonprofit health system, a ounced a $100 million mental health initiative on Tuesday. The Institute for Mental Health and Wellness will serve residents in the seven states where Irvine-based St. Joseph H...

Amazon is gearing up for its second a ual Prime Day on Tuesday. Prime Day, a kind of Cyber-Monday-in-July event, will feature more than 100,000 deals worldwide. Los Angeles-area shoppers who use the company’s super-fast Prime Now service will get their purchases delivered in one or two hours, depend...

LOS ALAMITOS >> During a 10-month period, the traffic light at Katellau2009Avenue and Bloomfieldu2009Street in Losu2009Alamitos switched from yellow to red faster than state law allows, likely causing hundreds of camera-generated tickets — about $500 apiece — to be issued incorrectly. Losu2009Alamit...

EUGENE, Ore. >> By the time Brenda Martinez sat down alone with a turkey sandwich and her four dogs Monday night in the house she and her husband/coach Carlos Handler are renting in nearby Springfield, she had already tu ed her focus to the Olympic Trials 1,500-meter later this week. A devastating a...

They weren’t there for the doughnuts. Even with the delicious scent of fried dough filling the air inside the Donut Tyme shop in Riverside’s Canyon Crest Towne Center, most customers breezed right past the display cases filled with maple bars, shiny glazed donuts, apple fritters and muffins. They he...

Charles Moran doesn’t expect to see less heat on Hillary Clinton this month at the Republican National Convention simply because the FBI recommended Tuesday that she not face criminal charges for using a private email server for classified information. The Donald Trump delegate from San Pedro said t...

SAN BERNARDINO >> All of the $2.5 million given to Arrowhead United Way on behalf of victims of the Dec. 2 terrorist attack has been distributed to those victims, the organization a ounced Tuesday. The San Be ardino United Relief Fund Committee decided in March how to divide the money: 80 percent to...

A missing Paramount man who suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease has been found, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said late Tuesday. Tomas “Tom” Riveral Rojas, 88, had last seen 2 p.m. Monday leaving his residence in Paramount, Sheriff’s said. He was found by a deputy sheriff from Norwalk She...

It’s fu y. Cindy Masner talks about how passionate the coaches are at Longu2009Beach State. After half an hour with Masner, it’s obvious the coaches have nothing on her. Masner is a former softball player at Longu2009Beach State, having played from 1981-85. Today, the interim athletics director is t...

The Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter’s orbit only a second off schedule and within tens of miles of its target, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Essentially, NASA threaded the planetary equivalent of a needle 400 million miles away with a spacecraft traveling at 160,000 miles per hour. ...

LONDON >> The Williams sisters could be headed for another meeting in a Grand Slam final. Venus Williams made it back to the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time in seven years on Tuesday, while defending champion Serena Williams advanced to her 10th final four at the All England Club. Mounting a...

Coyotes wouldn’t stand a chance in wi ing a good-neighbor contest in San Pedro these days. The wild predators have become the center of frustration and often downright loathing after attacking beloved pets throughout the port community. But few people can resist feeling compassion for a helpless bab...

Long Beach voters can look forward to seeing at least two marijuana-related initiatives on their November ballots. City Clerk Maria de la Luz Garcia a ounced Tuesday that supporters of a city initiative seeking to allow medical ca abis dispensaries to operate in Long Beach have collected enough veri...

The owner of a new comic book shop in Long Beach’s shoreline area wants customers to imagine themselves living their own adventure when they step inside and see the vivid cover art ado ing new releases and vintage issues throughout the store. “The main theme of my store is I want to make you feel li...