When “Soarin’ Around the World” replaced the original Soarin’ Over Califo ia at Disney Califo ia Adventure last week, the new destinations on screen weren’t the only thing getting the attention of Disneyland fans. Disney also eliminated the single rider line that solo visitors long had used to short...

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 ...

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...

BELLFLOWER – Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were hospitalized in fair condition today with wounds they suffered in a shooting in Bellflower, and the gunman who wounded them remained at large, authorities said. Both of the deputies underwent surgery and were expected to survive, sheriff’s ...

BELLFLOWER – Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were hospitalized in fair condition today with wounds they suffered in a shooting in Bellflower, and the gunman who wounded them remained at large, authorities said. Both of the deputies underwent surgery and were expected to survive, sheriff’s ...

Location: Pulse nightclub City: Orlando, Fla. Date: June 12 Killed: 49 Injured: 53 Location: Inland Regional Center City: San Be ardino Date: Dec. 2 Killed: 14 Injured: 22 Location: Umpqua Community College City: Roseburg, Ore. Date: Oct. 1, 2015 Killed: 9 Injured: 7 Location: Emanuel African Method...

Southland thrill-seekers will have a new attraction to visit begi ing this weekend, when a 45-foot glass slide mounted on the side of the U.S. Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles opens for business -- 70 stories above the ground. The new attraction, the Skyslide, will offer riders a chance to slide f...

Hundreds of thousands of people living illegally in Southe Califo ia were facing a sobering new reality Thursday: The U.S. Supreme Court isn’t coming to their rescue and their fate may be tied more precariously than ever to the outcome of this year’s presidential election. News that the high court d...

LONDON >> Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, according to tallies of official results Friday, sending global markets plunging, casting British politics into disarray and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a c...

Southland thrill-seekers will have a new attraction to visit begi ing this weekend, when a 45-foot glass slide mounted on the side of the U.S. Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles opens for business -- 70 stories above the ground. The new attraction, the Skyslide, will offer riders a chance to slide f...

Hundreds of thousands of people living illegally in Southe Califo ia were facing a sobering new reality Thursday: The U.S. Supreme Court isn’t coming to their rescue and their fate may be tied more precariously than ever to the outcome of this year’s presidential election. News that the high court d...

LONDON >> Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, according to tallies of official results Friday, sending global markets plunging, casting British politics into disarray and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a c...

SANTA ANITA LEADERS Through Thursday JOCKEYS / WINS Rafael Bejarano / 35 Flavien Prat / 32 Tyler Baze / 27 Edwin Maldonado / 22 Joe Talamo / 20 TRAINERS / WINS Philip D’Amato / 22 Jerry Hollendorfer / 10 Mark Glatt / 9 Peter Miller / 9 Mike Puype / 9 John Sadler / 9 STAKES SCHEDULE SANTA ANITA Satur...

Melatonin, one of the favorites in Saturday’s $500,000 Grade I Gold Cup at Santa Anita, has been on quite a ride this year, blossoming from a run-of-the-mill sprinter into one of the top older horses on the West Coast. A 5-year-old gelded son of Kodiak Kowboy, Melatonin had never raced beyond 6 1/2 ...

A 71-year-old man who beat and kicked a young mother blocking his path into a parking space in Gardena was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison despite pleas for leniency from family members and claims of post-traumatic stress disorder from three tours in Vietnam. Roy Foster Otis of Los Angeles...

A Los Angeles County jury has awarded more than $2.3 million in damages to a man who was injured after being run over by a Long Beach city vehicle in 2014. The jury reached its decision Wednesday at Long Beach Superior Court. David R. Lira, an atto ey with the Los Angeles law firm of Girardi Keese, ...

A $5.25u2009billion expansion of the Panama Canal opening this weekend will reverberate 3,000u2009miles away at the massive Los Angeles and Longu2009Beach ports complex, which for decades has been the best, fastest and cheapest route between Asia and the United States’ voracious consumer market. Car...

The Long Beach Unified School District adopted a $896.7 million budget for the 2016-17 school year Thursday night – and will ask voters in November to approve a $1.5 billion bond measure to pay for campus upgrades in the district. The ballot measure comes eight years after the 2008 passage of Measur...

Jeep Grand Cherokee owners Thursday filed suit against Fiat Chrysler, alleging the automaker concealed and failed to fix a shifter design defect linked to driverless rollaway accidents, including the death this week in Studio City of “Star Trek” actor Anton Yelchin. The proposed class-action complai...

Dying is hard, but instead of making it easier, we keep getting distracted by sideline issues. Physician-assisted suicide should be only a small part of the conversation. Everyone I know wants to live as long and well as possible and then die gently, surrounded by people they know and love, and who ...