WASHINGTON >> Donald Trump has finally acknowledged that to best compete against Hillary Clinton he needs more than the bare-bones campaign team that led him to primary success. But many of the most experienced Republican political advisers aren’t willing to work for him. From Texas to New Hampshire...

LONDON >> A tsunami of uncertainty has engulfed A a Woydyla, a Polish restaurant worker in London, since Britain voted to leave European Union. Would her two teenage children, who grew up in the United Kingdom, still qualify for loans to study at British universities? Would she and her husband, afte...

PHOENIX >> The state of Arizona has eliminated its use of the sedative midazolam as one of the drugs it relies on in carrying out executions. Lawyers for the state said in a court filing Friday that its current supply of midazolam expired on May 31 and that Arizona’s sources of the drug have dried u...

LONDON (AP) — Britain and the European Union haven’t even begun divorce talks yet but were already bickering Saturday as the political and economic shockwaves from the British vote to leave the bloc reverberated around the world. Senior EU politicians, rattled by a result that few saw coming, told B...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Famed defense atto ey F. Lee Bailey, whose legion of high-profile cases includes the O.J. Simpson murder trial, has filed for bankruptcy in Maine in an effort to discharge an IRS debt of more than $5 million. Debts to the IRS aren’t normally discharged in bankruptcy proceeding...

LOS ANGELES >> Kanye West has unveiled a video on a subject he knows something about: fame. The video for a single titled “Famous” — unveiled Friday night at a promotional event in the Los Angeles Forum — features what appears to be a naked West with images of 11 other famous people, some of whom he...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. >> All Karol Dunford has left is a dirty nightgown, caked in mud from the floodwaters that ravaged her West Virginia town and killed at least 23. She lost the trailer where she lived for 30 years. She lost her wheelchair, her medicine and her best friend, a little Chihuahua named F...

It may sound like a dangerous practice on its face — aircraft pilots texting in the cockpit — but federal aviation officials are encouraging them to do just that using new technology designed to make commercial air travel safer and more efficient. Dubbed Data Comm, the technology eliminates the long...

After almost calling an audible and keeping Hoppertunity in the ba , trainer Bob Baffert has decided he’ll run the 3-1 mo ing-line favorite in Saturday’s $500,000 Grade I Gold Cup at Santa Anita. Hoppertunity, the most accomplished of the eight horses in the 1 1/4-mile Gold Cup, has not raced since ...

The 20-page report, which can be found online at http://bit.ly/28VCAZq, includes tips for residents who want to protect their pets: • Do not feed wildlife, even indirectly (keep trash cans tightly closed, clean up outdoor pet food immediately, empty water containers and keep spas covered) • Supervis...

BELLFLOWER >> Two sheriffs deputies were shot late Thursday after a series of gun battles with a man who fled a DUI checkpoint, and was eventually arrested after a SWAT team fired tear gas into a home where the gunman was holding a hostage. Juan Martinez, 39, was arrested on Friday mo ing and booked...

The mayors of Long Beach and Los Angeles wasted no time Friday in making pitches to George Lucas to bring his museum — which would showcase the filmmaker’s art collection —to Los Angeles, now that plans for building it in Chicago have been abandoned. When news came in May that San Francisco was bein...

A Long Beach man and woman killed by a suspected drunken driver in Lakewood Tuesday night were a longtime couple pla ing to get married in October, friends and family said. The victims, 30-year-old Brian Urquia and 28-year-old Rosa a Williams, were identified Friday by the Los Angeles County Coroner...

NEW YORK >> Stocks are plunging in the U.S. and worldwide Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union. The result stu ed investors, who reacted by rushing to the safety of gold and U.S. gove ment bonds as they wondered what will come next for Britain, Europe and the global economy. U.S. s...

LAKE ISABELLA >> Authorities say a wildfire roaring through mountain communities in central Califo ia has killed two people. Ke County fire Capt. Tyler Townsend tells news station KBAK-TV on Friday that two residents were found dead in Lake Isabella, a popular recreation area east of Bakersfield. No...

You may have noticed...OK, you definitely noticed that there’s this thing called “Brexit” that everyone and their mother is talking about. Brexit is the clever phrase that sums up what happened yesterday when Britains voted to leave the European Union. It’s a move that took over the news cycle Frida...

Duarte and Azusa residents who remain evacuated due to twin fires bu ing in the San Gabriel Mountains are expected to be allowed to retu to their homes by noon Friday, officials said. The San Gabriel Complex fires went unchanged ove ight and feared winds did not have any impact on the twin fires, of...

LOS ANGELES >> The Califo ia Department of Public Health has issued a health advisory in Southe Califo ia linked to an outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease, primarily among adult gay and bisexual men. Meningococcal disease is caused by a bacteria and can cause meningitis and bloodstream infect...

BELLFLOWER >> Two sheriff’s deputies were hospitalized today with wounds they suffered in a shooting in Bellflower, and the gunman who allegedly wounded them was taken into custody after a standoff with a teargas-firing SWAT team, authorities said. Both of the deputies, who work out of the Lakewood ...