RIO DE JANEIRO >> They’ve cruised through unfazed so far, undefeated in three games and outscoring their opponents by a tou ament-best 20 goals. But that doesn’t mean the emotion will be lacking Monday when the U.S. women’s water polo team plays its quarterfinal game. For one thing, the Americans ar...

Everyone knows home prices are high in Southe Califo ia. It’s a reality that has prevented many people from owning a home, and it has become a challenge for businesses seeking to attract out-of-state talent and for companies looking to move their operations here. Recent figures from price tracker Co...

LOS ANGELES >> The death sentence of the “Grim Sleeper” serial killer last week put to rest a case that spa ed more than three decades, but it left another mystery wide open. Police are still trying to identify 33 women whose snapshots were found in Lo ie Franklin Jr.’s home after his arrest. The im...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday by thieves posing as police officers who stopped their taxi and took their money and belongings, the U.S. Olympic Committee said. In the latest security incident to hit the Rio de Janeiro Games, Loch...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Simone Biles won her third gold medal of these Olympic Games with a blowout victory in the vault at Rio Olympic Arena Sunday afte oon. Biles average score of 15.966 was more than seven-tenths of a point greater than the score of ru er-up Maria Paseka of Russia (15.253). Biles, who ...

Rio de Janeiro >> Two steps safely past the finish line of his Olympic Games 800-meter semi-final, Boris Berian broke into a wide smile and clapped his hands. “I was excited,” he said later recalling the moment. “I made the Olympic final.” Berian, less than two years ago hanging onto an Olympic drea...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Ten of 25 laps into the Olympic Games 10,000-meter final and a night when Great Britain’s Mo Farah was chasing the likes of Zatopek, Viren and Gebrselassie through history, the unthinkable happened. Farah, the reigning Olympic and World 10,000 and 5,000 champion, crashed to the tra...

What to watch: USA’s Justin Gatlin competes in the 100 meter final with the hope of preventing Jamaica’s Usain Bolt from being the first man to win three Olympic titles in the event. American LaShawn Merritt will compete in the 400 after reaching the podium in 2008. All five members of the USA gymna...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> The last time Anthony Ervin won an individual Olympic gold medal, the thing helped nearly sink his entire life. Doesn’t sound like that will be a problem this time. On Friday, the Hart High graduate, at age 35, won his second individual gold, claiming the 50-meter freestyle. A day ...

Rio de Janeiro >> Two steps safely past the finish line of his Olympic Games 800-meter semi-final, Boris Berian broke into a wide smile and clapped his hands. “I was excited,” he said later recalling the moment. “I made the Olympic final.” Berian, less than two years ago hanging onto an Olympic drea...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Michael Phelps closed out the Rio Olympics in the only way imaginable. Golden. Phelps put the United States ahead to stay on the butterfly leg of the 4x100-meter medley relay and Nathan Adrian finished it off, giving the most decorated athlete in Olympic history his 23rd career gol...

The Bay Area, home of your Zuckerbergs and Steyers and some of the country’s most expensive ZIP codes, seems like a logical answer. Over the past decade, what other part of Califo ia has minted as many members of the “1 percent” as Silicon Valley? But according to research from the nonpartisan Publi...

More than 150 people gathered on June 16 in the Harborview Ballroom of The Reef on the Water to mark the 40th A ual Awards Di er of the Disabled Resources Center. The proceeds from the event, themed “The Road to Ruby,” support DRC’s critical work as a nonresidential Independent Living Center. Los An...

Stuffed animals lean against candles. Chalk drawings of hearts cover the street where a little girl and her mother were killed. In the mou ful aftermath of a deadly shooting Aug. 6 near Locust Avenue and East Ninth Street, children routinely accompany their parents to the makeshift memorial honoring...

BANGKOK >> Police in Thailand said Saturday that they were hoping to identify suspects over the next couple of days in a series of bombing and arson attacks that struck several tourist towns, killing four people and wounding dozens, including 11 foreigners. The attacks, which hit Thursday and Friday...

NEW ORLEANS >> National Guard soldiers and other officials in boats and helicopters plucked more than 1,000 people from their homes and cars as “unprecedented, historic” flooding swamped Louisiana, the gove or said Saturday, wa ing that the slow-moving storm would dump even more rain and cause furth...

Staff reports A 19-year-old San Pedro man charged with stabbing a woman and nearly gouging a man’s eye out remained missing Friday, two days after he escaped from the Long Beach courthouse. Abel Munguia was out on bail when he appeared Wednesday in the Gove or George Deukmejian Courthouse on Magnoli...

Suspicious item spurs evacuation of cargo area at LAX By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES >> Authorities have lifted an evacuation of a cargo facility at Los Angeles Inte ational Airport. Los Angeles airport police say questionable items were listed on a manifest late Friday night. Flights were not ...

What to watch: Michael Phelps will swim the butterfly leg of the 4x100 meter medley relay for USA in what is expected to be his final Olympic race. On the track, reigning world champion Allyson Felix will represent Team USA when she competes in the first round of the women’s 400 meters while two-tim...

As Kim Rhode took aim at another Olympic shooting medal in Rio de Janeiro on Friday mo ing, a roomful of friends and supporters miles away in Redlands hung on every shot. “I had chills the entire time,” said Allison Rangel, manager of the Redlands Shooting Park, which hosted a live stream viewing pa...