LONG BEACH >>Councilwoman-elect Jea ine Pearce has tapped a member of the mayor’s team to be her new chief of staff. Pearce a ounced this week her intentions to hire Devin Cotter, Mayor Robert Garcia’s legislative deputy, for the top job on her staff after a tight race for the 2nd District seat led ...

LONG BEACH >> Congressman Alan Lowenthal will be in Long Beach today to talk with community members about gun-violence prevention in the wake of the worst mass shooting in mode U.S. history. The call for a conversation about sensible gun reform comes two weeks after a massacre at a gay nightclub in ...

A Southe Califo ia state senator’s effort to close what he considers to be a loophole in non-discrimination laws has set up a confrontation between LGBT rights advocates and religious colleges. State Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, has introduced a bill aiming to extend nondiscrimination laws tha...

ISTANBUL >> Three suspected Islamic State group suicide bombers targeted the inte ational terminal of Istanbul’s Ataturk airport Tuesday, killing at least 36 people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said 36 were dead and Justice Minister Bekir B...

For Los Angeles-area officials hoping to solve the region’s acute homelessness crisis, it’s clear spare change will no longer cut it. When the L.A. County Board of Supervisors on June 14 voted to ask the state for a declaration of emergency, they reached out with an empty hat in hand, hoping Sacrame...

The car would look menacing enough just parked and vacant under one of Bixby Knolls’ stately magnolias. All black and shiny, windows tinted so darkly that you can’t tell where the body ends and the glass begins. The Volkswagen CC looks like a conceptual sculpture of a panther poised to pounce. Over ...

Buddy Ryan, the pugnacious coach who masterminded two fierce defenses that won Super Bowl titles and whose twin sons have been successful NFL coaches, died Tuesday. He was 82. His death was confirmed by the Buffalo Bills, who are coached by Rex Ryan. James Solano, Buddy Ryan’s agent, said he died in...

Needing yet another men’s basketball coach, Te essee officials tu ed to the one person they thought would be perfect to take over the Volunteers program. Pat Summitt said no. She wasn’t interested in the job in 1994 after Wade Houston was forced out, and she tu ed it down again when Jerry Green quit...

LOS ANGELES - The forthcoming Fourth of July travel weekend will be the biggest on record for residents of Southe Califo ia, according to the Automotive Club of Southe Califo ia. More than 3 million Southe Califo ia residents are expected to take an Independence Day vacation this year -- a 1.3 perce...

2 explosions rock Istanbul airport, multiple people injured Home → News → Nation and World By Dominique Soguel, The Associated Press ISTANBUL >> A Turkish official says two explosions have rocked Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, wounding multiple people. The official said Tuesday it was unclear wheth...

Claiming that radio stations are getting a “free ride,” Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., has proposed legislation that would force stations to pay fees for performance rights to record companies, which would then compensate artists for the songs they play. His argument: Webcasters such as Pandora pay such...

Long Beach police officers’ search for man wanted on suspicion of an assault with a deadly weapon culminated in an officer-involved shooting in the city’s Zaferia area. A suspect has been taken to a hospital for medical care, according to police department spokeswoman Marlene Arrona. There was no im...

It’s official. Both KSPN (710 AM) and The Sound (100.3 FM) will be the local affiliates carrying every one of the Rams games as the team marks its retu to Los Angeles. The basics: • The agreement with the stations is for five years and covers pre-season, regular-season and post-season games. • Each ...

A Burbank man who allegedly shot and wounded two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies was accused Tuesday of trying to murder ten deputies before a nearly eight-hour standoff in Bellflower Thursday, prosecutors a ounced. • Related: Lakewood sheriff’s deputy remains hospitalized, other released after Bellf...

KNOXVILLE, Te . >> Pat Summitt, the wi ingest coach in Division I college basketball history who uplifted the women’s game from obscurity to national prominence during her 38-year career at Te essee, died Tuesday mo ing. She was 64. With an icy glare on the sidelines, Summitt led the Lady Vols to ei...

Long Beach police officers have closed off access to several streets near Orizaba Park in the city’s Zaferia area while searching for man wanted on suspicion of an assault with a deadly weapon. Officers have set up a perimeter bounded by 16th Street to the north, Orizaba Avenue to the west, 14th Str...

WASHINGTON >> Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee harshly faulted the Obama administration Tuesday for lax security and a slow response to the deadly 2012 attacks at the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya. But they produced no new allegations about then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The ...

In the not-too-distant future, high school students bound for a Califo ia State University campus who thought they could slide through their senior year without taking a math course might instead be hitting the books. CSU’s Academic Senate, which represents faculty at all 23 campuses in the system, ...

Needing yet another men’s basketball coach, Te essee officials tu ed to the one person they thought would be perfect to take over the Volunteers program. Pat Summitt said no. She wasn’t interested in the job in 1994 after Wade Houston was forced out, and she tu ed it down again when Jerry Green quit...

KNOXVILLE, Te . >> Pat Summitt, the wi ingest coach in Division I college basketball history who uplifted the women’s game from obscurity to national prominence during her 38-year career at Te essee, died Tuesday mo ing. She was 64. With an icy glare on the sidelines, Summitt led the Lady Vols to ei...