The Long Beach Ministers Alliance is sponsoring a comedy show, hoping that laughter will help heal problems in the community. “Laughing Lives Matter,” a benefit comedy show, will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Terrace Theater. Lester Barrie, inspirational comedian and former Comic View ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> In the shadow of mighty Usain Bolt, Allyson Felix achieved something unprecedented in women’s track and field Friday by wi ing her fifth Olympic gold medal. And together with the rest of the 4x100-meter relay team, she brought the United States closer to its biggest medal haul in d...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> The Paralympics will go ahead next month despite being forced to implement further “major budget cuts” to the games in Rio de Janeiro. Poor ticket sales have compounded existing financial challenges in recession-battered Brazil, which have been impacting the Olympics. Rio now has l...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> With her arms raised in victory, coach Silvia Neid ran onto the field to join the celebration of Germany’s first Olympic gold medal — even jumping onto the players’ dogpile. What a way to go out. Dzsenifer Marozsan scored early in the second half Friday and Germany went on to give ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Max Holt did a little bit of everything. At the net, digging balls from just off the floor, finishing points with big, leaping swings. He and David Lee stuffed the Italians with stellar blocking. Setter Micah Christenson contributed his own blocks and even a kill to end the third s...

Rams fans retu to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Saturday, where they’ll see their team play the Kansas City Chiefs on the field. What they don’t want to see are fights off the field and in the stands. That’s why officials this week assured fans that security is priority No. 1 at the Coliseum aft...

A 21-year-old Reno woman spending her first day in Los Angeles plunged to her death Friday from a cliff at Point Fermin in San Pedro, police said. The accident occurred about 2:15 p.m. in the 500 block of West Paseo del Mar. The woman, who had just moved to Califo ia from Nevada, asked her new roomm...

Authorities filed charges against a 57-year-old man accused of striking a teen over the head with a metal pole while he was playing Pokemon Go in Long Beach, the Los Angeles County District Atto ey’s Office said Friday. Jayson Louis Lingen has been charged with one count of assault with a deadly wea...

LOS ANGELES — A Metro county sales tax measure aimed at raising revenue to build, operate and maintain public transportation projects was officially certified by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder today for the Nov. 8 ballot. If approved by at least two-thirds of voters, Measure M would enact...

Long Beach Symphony officials a ounced this mo ing that after a two-year search a new conductor and musical director has been selected. Maestro Eckart Preu, who closed the season in June with a night of music from the Romantic period as a guest conductor, will take the helm of the orchestra begi ing...

PHELAN >> For years, residents of Phelan, Wrightwood and the West Cajon Valley area have made the Mountain Top Cafe a gathering place. “Sometimes a bunch of us retired law enforcement guys get together here some mo ings and just talk,” said John Gress of West Cajon Valley. “We’ve been coming here fo...

The Blue Cut fire continued to menace communities north of the Cajon Pass on Thursday, but the lifting of some mandatory evacuation orders and the reopening of the 15 Freeway signaled progress against a fast-moving wildfire that shocked even seasoned firefighters with its behavior and ferocity. The ...

A transgender man who was denied a haircut at a Long Beach barber shop reached a settlement with the business, with management agreeing not to discriminate against patrons based on gender. Rose Trevis’ Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, filed March 29 against Hawleywood’s Barber Shop, alleged discr...

Rio de Janeiro >> In a sort of victory lap before the victory, Usain Bolt held up his left arm, his index finger extended into a wet night, as he walked slowly clockwise from a tu el entrance, around the Olympic Stadium curve to his blocks in Lane 6 and the start of the Olympic Games 200-meter final...

An armed robbery in downtown Long Beach Thursday prompted police to surrounded a parking garage where they thought they had the suspect co ered. The incident started around 12:10 p.m. when the suspect entered a business near the intersection of Pine Avenue and Sixth Street and stole a bottle of liqu...

A pair of plump penguin chicks, their black-and-white plumage not quite matching the tuxedo look of their adult counterparts, made their public debut Thursday at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. The birds — both males who have yet to be named — hatched in May. One chick is the offspring of...

Mandatory evacuation orders for an area of south Hesperia and Oak Hills will be lifted at 1 p.m., the Sheriff’s Department said at 12:45 p.m. Thursday. The area extends east of the 15 Freeway to Santa Fe and Summit Valley Road and south of Ranchero Road to Highway 138. The Blue Cut fire has left abo...

Just a few months after leaving her native Mexico to give Hollywood a try, Verónica Falcón landed the killer role of drug lord Camila Vargas on USA Network’s “Queen of the South.” • PHOTOS: Mexico’s Verónica Falcón stars in ‘Queen of the South’ on USA The series — which premiered in June — is the En...

The findings of a $100,000 parking study in Belmont Shore will be revealed on Sept. 1 at a meeting with the consultants performing the work. Third District Councilwoman Suzie Price originally scheduled the public meeting for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bay Shore Community Congregational Church, 5100 T...

Uber to use self-driving cars to haul people in next few weeks Uber and Volvo a ounced a $300 million deal for Volvo to provide SUVs to Uber for autonomous vehicle research. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) By Associated Press DETROIT — Ride-hailing service Uber says it will start hauling passengers wi...