Joe Jares, a former Los Angeles Daily News sports editor and columnist in the 1980s and ’90s who spent more than 15 years at Sports Illustrated, died Saturday night in Los Angeles. He was 78. A general-assignment reporter at the Los Angeles Times as well as a writer for United Press Inte ational and...

It took him 50u2009years to say what he needed to say. And when he finally got it down on paper, the words came out short and sweet. On Mayu200931, five decades after he lay bleeding in a field in Vietnam worried if he would lose his leg, Lt.u2009Col. Dale Hanson wrote a letter to Michael Colglazier...

A handful of animal rights activists were removed by security officials at Dodgers stadium Sunday, July 3, after ru ing onto the baseball field during the team’s game against the Colorado Rockies. The activists held signs and ran on the field during the ninth i ing. A group called Direct Action Ever...

A proposed ballot measure asking voters to consider a parcel tax to pay for parks and open space has drawn criticism from activists in dozens of small cities, who plan to voice their conce s Tuesday to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. The disparate group of cities — from Glendora to Glen...

Girl, 9, loses hand and fingers in blast; fireworks suspected Home → News → Breaking News By The Associated Press COMPTON >> Investigators say a 9-year-old girl in Compton lost her left hand and fingers on her right hand in an explosion that was likely caused by the use of illegal fireworks. The...

In a building with blacked-out windows in an anonymous, unmarked light industrial park on Van Ness Avenue in Torrance sits American Honda’s “secret” museum. The collection traces the company’s U.S. history from its first primitive product, a 50cc motorcycle, to today’s HondaJet, the world’s most adv...

One by one, parents of color — dozens of them — lined up before the state school board to make their plea: Come up with an accurate tool to measure how good their children’s schools really are. Spanish-speaking mothers asked the 10-member panel to evaluate schools based on parent involvement because...

WINNETKA >> It sounds a bit touchy-feely. But worrying about students’ emotional well-being has had concrete benefits at one Losu2009Angeles Unified elementary school. Social-emotional lea ing is one component being tracked by six Califo ia public school districts belonging to the Califo ia Office t...

This Independence Day, what it means to be patriotic might depend on who you want to be president. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump offer conflicting visions of patriotism, even though most Americans consider themselves to be patriotic. The type of patriotism favored by liberals, observers say, focu...

When her dog suddenly died after being exposed to toxic blue-green algae at Lake Chabot in the Bay Area, Marcella Schantz wondered whether humans, too, were at risk. “I see kids going down to the shore there. Little kids,” said Schantz, 59, of Castro Valley, whose dog Ginger fell ill and later died ...

BARSTOW >> The first time Cathyleen Williams suspected anything might be wrong with her son was six weeks before he was bo . “(The doctor) called and said ‘there’s something wrong with his heart,” Williams said. Caleb Lucas was bo a month later with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, leaving him with ...

Signal Hill officials this week honored retiring police Sgt. Robert “Bob” Cravens with a proclamation commending his three decades of work. Police Chief Michael Langston said Cravens was hired out of Cal State Long Beach on July 5, 1986 at a salary of $11.50 an hour. Cravens served as a patrol offic...

In a building with blacked-out windows in an anonymous, unmarked light industrial park on Van Ness Avenue in Torrance sits American Honda’s “secret” museum. The collection traces the company’s U.S. history from its first primitive product, a 50cc motorcycle, to today’s HondaJet, the world’s most adv...

As part of a statewide effort to draw attention to homelessness, Long Beach officials will call on the Califo ia Legislature to declare a “state of emergency” in hopes of securing more resources to combat the problem. The City Council on Tuesday will discuss sending a resolution supporting this effo...

Officials in Signal Hill have paved the way for Auto Center dealerships to expand storage and services. The City Council recently approved an ordinance allowing dealerships at the Auto Center to maintain wholesale facilities and vehicle storage yards, and perform auto body repair, painting, and othe...

The Mailbag begins promisingly enough this week: “You do a terrific job reporting on local events and news of interest to those of us who live in, and love Long Beach,” gushes reader Ralph Paul Edwards. Then, predictably: “However, when you tackle the more challenging issues of national politics, es...

BAGHDAD >> A suicide truck bomb in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people and wounded nearly 200 others who were out shopping and celebrating early Sunday ahead of the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, security and medical officials said. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, was the deadlie...

CARSON >> A man -- possibly wielding a knife -- barricaded himself inside a residence for more than eight hours in Carson and when he surrendered to a sheriff’s Special Weapons Team. The stalemate at 18 Paradise Valley North in the Scottsdale Estate, near the 23400 block of Avalon Boulevard, began a...

The deaths in the militant attack on a restaurant in Bangladesh were at once random, and not so random. The 20 hostages who died in the siege had reasons to be in the developing South Asian nation. They were construction consultants from Japan, working on a Japanese gove ment-funded infrastructure p...

WASHINGTON >> The vaunted data-driven machine that twice got President Barack Obama elected is revving up to help elect Hillary Clinton, as Democrats look to recreate the tactical advantage they used against Republicans in 2008 and 2012. With Obama’s popularity rebounding, Democrats have been eagerl...