BAGHDAD — Iraqi special forces battled their way into the center of Fallujah on Friday, capturing a key neighborhood and a gove ment complex from Islamic State group fighters, and thousands of residents fled as the militants’ grip on the city appeared to crumble. As ISIS fighters abandoned some chec...

CAIRO — The second black box of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, a day after Egypt’s investigation committee said the plane’s cockpit voice recorder had been recovered. The find significantly raises hopes tha...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A bartender says the Florida nightclub shooter stalked her nearly a decade ago, sending her so many uncomfortable messages on Facebook that she blocked him on the social network. “He was one of those guys who wouldn’t leave me alone,” Heather LaSalla of Fort Pierce, Florida, told...

LOS ANGELES — Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page demonstrated a deft touch at deflecting questions aimed at showing he might have lifted a passage for the introduction to the 1971 hit “Stairway to Heaven.” Testifying in his defense Thursday in a copyright infringement case, Page showed little interes...

GOLETA — The Latest on wildfires in the Weste U.S. (all times local): 8 a.m. A wildfire racing across central New Mexico has charred more than 26 square miles and destroyed two dozen homes near the small community of Chilili. Authorities said Friday that the latest infrared mapping shows the fire is...

NBA Finals: Stephen Curry fined $25K, no suspension for throwing mouthpiece Golden State’s Stephen Curry was not suspended after getting ejected from Game 6 against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday in Cleveland. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) By Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press CLEVELAND —...

SigAlert on north 710 Freeway near South Gate By City News Service A Sig Alert has been issued this mo ing in South Gate on the northbound Long Beach (710) Freeway north of the Los Angeles River, the Califo ia Highway Patrol says. Two lanes will be closed for 30 minutes due to a traffic collision. A...

ATHENS — A woman killed herself and a small child in an SUV fire, authorities said today. The incident occurred Thursday about 9:45 p.m. in the 300 block of West 124th Street, just east of the Harbor (110) Freeway, Deputy Mike Barraza of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told City News Ser...

CARSON — Three men standing outside vehicles following a crash were fatally struck by a car on the San Diego (405) Freeway in Carson today, shutting down the freeway for hours, and a man was arrested on suspicion of DUI in co ection with the accident, the Califo ia Highway Patrol reported. The men w...

While global trade has slowed in recent years, the greater Los Angeles region still handles a massive share of all the trade passing through the United States each year, according to a pair of reports that will be released by the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation on Friday. Inte ational t...

A pair of new reports show that Southe Califo ia is a powerful magnet for foreign investment and a major player in inte ational trade, despite global economic challenges. Related story: Read our analysis of LAEDC’s second report The reports will be unveiled today ufeffat the SELECT LA Investment Sum...

Silence in the face of a tragedy like the Orlando massacre June 12 is not an option, Rabbi Steven Moskowitz told a crowd of a 150 people gathered Thursday night in Long Beach to mou the lives lost. “It’s not just an incident we remember,” the local rabbi said, “we remember 49 individual human beings...

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Last year at this time, American Pharoah was a virtual cinch to claim Horse of the Year honors. Becoming the first Triple Crown wi er in 37 years tends to tilt the voting in your direction. This year, as we near the halfway mark of the campaign, there are two horses that lead the pack for the most p...

Long Beach’s City Council has signed off on the $6 million sale of land of downtown lot to a developer pla ing twin apartment buildings. The land in question is a 52,500-square-foot lot, currently used as a parking lot, near the northeast co er of the Third Street and Pacific Avenue intersection. Th...

A federal judge indicated this week he may throw out a lawsuit alleging Twitter bears responsibility for the death of an American who was killed last year as a result of a terrorist attack in Jordan. That case is similar to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday by the father of Nohemi Gonzalez, the Cal State ...

Gilbert Raul Rubio, convicted in 1998 of murdering a Long Beach man and Downey high school teacher, was found dead Thursday in his cell at San Quentin, jail officials said. Rubio, 55, faced execution for the 1998 robbery and murder of George Blackwell, a 46-year-old vice principal at Downey’s Warren...

Several Long Beach community groups will come together tonight for evening of “remembrance and healing” in response to the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, on June 12. The event at 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel, 269 Loma Ave., will include speakers from the LGBTQ Center of Long Beach, the Office of R...

Gilbert Raul Rubio, convicted in 1998 of murdering a Long Beach man and Downey high school teacher, was found dead Thursday in his cell at San Quentin, jail officials said. Rubio, 55, faced execution for the 1998 robbery and murder of George Blackwell, a 46-year-old vice principal at Downey’s Warren...

Long Beach city officials are preparing for the first significant heat wave of the summer with high temperatures expected across Los Angeles County Saturday through Wednesday. Though local temperatures and humidity levels — which form what’s known as a heat index — won’t be high enough for officials...