It’s not illegal to be homeless. It’s not illegal to stand on a sidewalk, or sleep on a park bench during the day, either. But for the residents and business owners of east Long Beach, the people doing those things are problematic. “It’s our number one problem,” Dede Rossi, executive director of the...

I sat in the bathroom of a dirty apartment in college with Grateful Dead music swirling behind the door, staring at a cruddy pe y on the floor. The date of the coin was 1975. My birth year. Whoa. Fists pounded on the door pleading to get in, but I refused to budge, fixated on this date. High as a ho...

ARCADIA >> Lord Nelson was a nice horse before taking a five month-plus sabbatical at the begi ing of the year. Now he’s tu ing into a dynamo since his retu . The 4-year-old Pulpit colt outran Subtle Indian by a half-length to win Saturday’s $301,035 Grade I Triple Bend Stakes at Santa Anita, the se...

PASADENA >> Some panels pitted political opposites against each other, like conservative firebrand A Coulter and activist and former Obama administration official Van Jones. However, Coulter and Jones didn’t spend the time screaming at each other. In fact, they found common ground in agreeing in the...

Undocumented college students are leaving a wealth of unspent aid money on the table five years after the passage of the landmark Califo ia law that provides those immigrants grants for higher education. The Califo ia Dream Act made them eligible for several kinds of grants to attend community colle...

The 10 highest-compensated city workers in Long Beach in 2015: 1. Fire Capt. David W. Shetland: $426,278. 2. Harbor Department Chief Executive John Slangerup: $408,844. 3. City Atto ey Charles Parkin: $350,250. 4. City Manager Patrick West: $348,479. 5. Police Chief Robert Luna: $335,924. 6. Assista...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. >> It’s a troublesome story playing out across America in the 10 years since the housing bubble peaked and then burst in a ruinous crash: As real estate has climbed back, homeowners are thriving while renters are struggling. For many longtime owners, times are good. They’re enjo...

German Castellanos stood inside his cozy San Pedro apartment, an acoustic guitar propped against the wall of the tidy living room and his 5-year-old daughter all smiles in her blue, polka dot dress. The commotion of the Port of Los Angeles seemed far away on that shady stretch of Gaffey Place. Thoug...

Three people were killed and four others were injured, one critically, when their 15-foot boat capsized Saturday on the “backside’’ of Catalina Island, authorities said. Firefighters and paramedics were dispatched to the area at 9:32 a.m., according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher...

Paul Tanaka, the former second-in-command of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, is expected to be sentenced Mondayafter being found guilty in April of conspiracy and obstruction of justice in a jail abuse and corruption scandal. Prosecutors with the U.S. atto ey’s office urged a federal co...

PASADENA >> Politicon wasn’t confined to terrestrial matters. Famed TV scientist Bill Nye revived a warm greeting at the start of the “How We Get to Mars” panel. The answer, according to panel moderator Casey Drier, is that a human voyage to the red plant is a matter of when, not if. But, the timeta...

PASADENA >> Pasadena became nirvana for politics junkies of all persuasions with the second-ever Politicon on Saturday. Unlike political events that cater to one side or the other, Politicon, dubbed as the Comic-Con and Coachella of politics, featured liberals and conservatives sitting next to each ...

Viewing parties will be held at six locations in Southe Califo ia for today’s telecasts of the U.S.-Colombia Copa America Centenario third-place game. The men’s soccer game from University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona will begin at 5 p.m. and be televised in English by cable’s FX and in S...

3 killed as boat capsizes off Catalina Island Home → News → Boating accidents By Associated Press AVALON >> Authorities say a boat has capsized off Catalina Island, killing three people. Four other people survived and were rescued but there’s no immediate word on their conditions. The 15-foot sk...

All of us would like to think we have enough money set aside for life’s unexpected emergencies, whether it’s a major car repair, a medical crisis or a leaking pipe that floods the kitchen. But a new report from Bankrate.com reveals that more than a quarter of Americans have no emergency savings at a...

Mo ing means a brief hell for Leigh Erceg. With every sunrise, she starts over, unsure at first where she is, who she is, what anything is, really. Not that the previous night is lost entirely, but ever since 2009, when she fell off a ravine in Colorado and severely injured her head, she has lived a...

BELLFLOWER >> Two sheriff’s deputies from the Lakewood Station remain hospitalized Saturday with wounds suffered in a shooting in Bellflower, and the gunman who allegedly wounded them remains jailed on $10 million bail. One deputy is recovering from his surgery and is improving, although his conditi...

FORT WORTH, Texas >> Two people were killed and several others injured early Saturday in a shooting outside a Texas dance studio during a party involving a group that the facility’s owner said wasn’t authorized to be there. Officers found one victim dead outside Studio 74 in Fort Worth, and several ...

LAKE ISABELLA >> A vast and voracious wildfire that has bu ed at least 80 homes in central Califo ia killed an elderly couple as they tried to flee, authorities said. The two were outside their house when they were overcome with smoke, Ke County Sheriff Do y Youngblood said at a Friday evening news ...

Family and friends of Alicia Faith Todd gathered late Friday on the one-year a iversary of her murder to hold a candlelight vigil in the 21-year-old Signal Hill woman’s memory. Todd was found shot to death shortly after 1 a.m. June 24, 2015 in an alley near 21st Street and Lemon Avenue in Central Lo...