DHAKA, Bangladesh >> Security officials searched on Sunday for evidence and the possible masterminds of the weekend hostage-taking in an upscale restaurant in Bangladesh’s capital. The gove ment has denied the Islamic State group’s claim of responsibility for the attack that left 28 dead, including ...

Imagine your fully autonomous self-driving car totals a minivan. Who pays for the damages? “There wouldn’t be any liability on you, because you’re just like a passenger in a taxi,” says Santa Clara University law professor Robert Peterson. Instead, the manufacturer of your car or its software would ...

Each year, Southe Califo ia adds the equivalent of a new Pasadena, a new Victorville or a new city of Orange to its population. Yet housing experts say the pace of house and apartment construction isn’t keeping up with that growth, generating some of the highest rents and home prices in the nation. ...

ARCADIA >> Fans leaned against the waist-high lattice fence lining the track at Santa Anita Park with race programs tucked beneath their arms. “Danzing Candy” were the only two words you could pluck out from the flurry of cheers that lasted the length of the 1 1/16 miles in Saturday’s $100,000 Grade...

ARCADIA >> Fans leaned against the waist-high lattice fence lining the track at Santa Anita Park with race programs tucked beneath their arms. “Danzing Candy” were the only two words you could pluck out from the flurry of cheers that lasted the length of the 1 1/16 miles in Saturday’s $100,000 Grade...

Putting on the dog at So Cal Corgi Beach Day in Belmont Shore By Staff reports So Cal Corgi Beach Day on Saturday at Rosie’s Dog Beach in Belmont Shore attracted examples of the distinctive breed from as far away as Texas. So Cal Corgi Nation, a group of enthusiasts of the Welsh herding dogs, organi...

ARCADIA >> Fans leaned against the waist-high lattice fence lining the track at Santa Anita Park with race programs tucked beneath their arms. “Danzing Candy” were the only two words you could pluck out from the flurry of cheers that lasted the length of the 1 1/16 miles in Saturday’s $100,000 Grade...

Each year, Southe Califo ia adds the equivalent of a new Pasadena, a new Victorville or a new city of Orange to its population. Yet housing experts say the pace of house and apartment construction isn’t keeping up with that growth, generating some of the highest rents and home prices in the nation. ...

Monday is a federal holiday observing Independence Day. The following schedule will be in effect: • Closed: Schools, banks, U.S. financial markets, courthouses and federal, state, county and most city offices. Offices of the Daily Breeze will be closed to the public Monday. The paper will be deliver...

Gregory had a bad start in life. He was a drug baby bo to parents who were on methamphetamine and crack cocaine. His health was in such danger he had to be kept in the hospital for detoxification. Gregory, now 11, has been adopted and is starting to lead a more normal life. As a member of the Boys &...

Local stars were out in full costume, walking the red carpet, being interviewed and photographed, with some receiving the coveted Fillmore Awards at the Hyatt Regency on May 20. Some 250 supporters celebrated a wonderful, colorful, fantastic evening with delicious food and lots of laughs! The L.A. G...

NEW YORK >> Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-bo Holocaust survivor whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as one of the world’s foremost witnesses and humanitarians, has died at age 87. His death was a ounced Saturday by Israe...

Follow along on Snapchat for a day at Santa Anita Race Track To follow along, simply open the app on your smartphone and search for katierichcreek or by pointing your camera over the ghost in the above image. And we’re off to the races! Reporter Katie Richcreek will be out at Santa Anita Park on Sat...

TORRANCE >> A San Pedro man was shot early Saturday as he stood in front of a Torrance restaurant, police said. The 29-year-old man was standing in the parking lot of Ramona’s Mexican Delicatessen, 16300 Crenshaw Blvd., at 1:05 a.m. when a sedan pulled up to him. Someone inside fired shots, hitting ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh >> The Latest on the attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone in the Bangladeshi capital (all times local): ••••••••••• 4:45 p.m. A classmate of two people who attended a university in the U.S. state of Georgia and were killed in the Bangladesh restaurant...

DHAKA, Bangladesh >> The hostages were given a test: recite verses from the Quran, or be punished, according to a witness. Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were slain. The dramatic, 10-hour hostage crisis that gripped the Bangladesh’s diplomatic zone ended Saturday mo ing with ...

MEMPHIS, Te . >> A mother in Te essee has been charged with first-degree murder and child abuse and neglect in co ection with the stabbing deaths of her four young children, authorities in Te essee said Saturday Shanynthia Gardner of Memphis was charged with four counts of first degree murder while ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh >> The Latest on the attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone in the Bangladeshi capital (all times local): ••••••••••• 9:30 p.m. The Islamic State group has claimed at an attack on an upscale Bangladesh restaurant in which militants killed 20 hostages, s...

On the day Cheryl Lawson Walker graduated from college, she hadn’t thought much about the future, and the obstacles she might face as a woman. The place was Wellesley; the year was 1969, and the women’s movement was just emerging as a force in America. But that day, for the first time, a student had...

SKOPJE, Macedonia >> Macedonian police say they have discovered 73 illegal migrants in a truck during a routine check early Saturday near Macedonia’s border with Serbia. The migrants are from Syria, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Most of them are women with children, police said. The 35-year-...