Swastikas painted on sidewalks and walkways. Anti-Semitic taunts in a middle school campus, on a public bus, in the street. Harassing anti-Semitic voice mails. These are just a few examples of hateful messages that made it to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) 2015 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents. T...

The council voted 7 to 1 Tuesday night, after an uncommonly impassioned and fractured debate, to reject Councilwoman Suzie Price’s proposal to bring forth a more restrictive ballot measure that would limit ca abis providers to delivery services before city gove ment may grant permits for storefront ...

The 10th birthday of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.’s last GZ-20 model blimp, Spirit of I ovation, was celebrated at its Carson base Tuesday with tours of the facility and science project exhibits from local schools. The company’s last balloon-like blimp will be replaced next year with a Zeppelin NT s...

A day after court documents confirmed that former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, community leaders and law enforcement groups gave opposing views Tuesday about how much time he should serve in prison for his part in a corruption scandal. Baca’s dia...

The stepfather and mother of former Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez want to make clear: They have nothing to do with a lawsuit filed by her biological father against three social media companies last week. Jose He andez and Beatrice Gonzalez, the step-father and mother of the El Monte w...

LOS ANGELES >> Former state Sen. Ron Calderon pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to one count of mail fraud in a corruption case that has shaken a local political dynasty dating back to 1979. Calderon, 58, of Montebello pleaded guilty two weeks after his brother, former state Assemblyman Tom Ca...

A 57-year-old woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years, four months in state prison for ru ing over and killing four people, including a 6-year-old boy, in a Redondo Beach crosswalk a week before Christmas in 2014. Margo Bronstein, who has been in jail since the Dec. 17, 2014, crash outside St. Ja...

Cities that provide generous health care and other perks to their employee — sometimes nearly twice the amount of base salaries and largely unknown to taxpayers — were slapped Tuesday in an analysis released by the nonprofit group Transparent Califo ia. The survey of 379 cities and 42 counties state...

On the heels of a report showing close to one in 10u2009Calu2009State University students are homeless or face housing instability, officials met this week in Longu2009Beach to come up with solutions to help students. “I think we’re going to start getting some greater awareness across this country b...

On the heels of a report showing close to one in 10u2009Calu2009State University students are homeless or face housing instability, officials met this week in Longu2009Beach to come up with solutions to help students. “I think we’re going to start getting some greater awareness across this country b...

The stepfather and mother of former Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez want to make clear: They have nothing to do with a lawsuit filed by her biological father against three social media companies last week. Jose He andez and Beatrice Gonzalez, the step-father and mother of the El Monte w...

Atto eys are scheduled to appear in court Monday and seem poised to settle a lawsuit brought against Los Angeles County by the family of an 8-year-old boy beaten to death, allegedly by his mother and her-then boyfriend. Two county claims boards voted earlier this month to recommend that the Board of...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has two men in custody who are accused of robbing a Bank of the West in Bellflower Tuesday afte oon. Sheriff’s units responded at 12:40 p.m. to an armed robbery call at the bank, which is located at 16824 Bellflower Blvd., said Sgt. Greg Knapp, a watch com...

The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday not to appeal a federal judge’s ruling finding a cross over the San Gabriel Mission on the county’s official seal to be unconstitutional. The vote, taken behind closed doors, was 3-2, with Supervisors Don Knabe and Michael Antonovich dissenting, according to a ...

Entrepreneur Darrell Park maintained a narrow lead over state Sen. Bob Huff Tuesday to compete against candidate Kathryn Barger in the November runoff for Michael D. Antonovich’s Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors seat, according to updated results. The results — the fourth ballot counting upda...

We’re starting to worry about the coyote problem in Long Beach. The problem being we don’t seem to have enough of them. Certainly, we don’t have enough to get into the coyote killing game like some of our more death-happy neighbors, like Seal Beach, which pioneered, locally, the sport of killing coy...

Boeing Co. and MemorialCare Health System have struck a direct contract to provide medical care to Southe Califo ia employees, the first such cost-saving alliance in Califo ia between a large employer and a health provider, the companies a ounced Tuesday. Unlike traditional health plans offered by i...

PG&E says it will close Diablo Canyon, Califo ia’s last nuclear power plant By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO >> A utility company and environmental groups have reached an agreement that will close Califo ia’s last nuclear power plant, ending the state’s nuclear power era. The state’s largest ut...

LOS ANGELES >> Former state Sen. Ron Calderon plead guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder to one count of mail fraud, in a federal corruption case that also involved his brother, former state Assemblyman Tom Calderon who plead guilty two weeks ago to one count of money launderin...

Los Angeles, San Fe ando Valley and Santa Monica area Events National Eat at a Food Truck Day: Roaming Hunger, a food truck tracker, is promoting a day for special deals with participating food trucks in the Los Angeles area on June 24. Check the website or download the app for participating trucks....