Long Beach City Council candidate Jea ine Pearce led opponent Eric Gray by 134 votes after Los Angeles County elections officials had counted ballots from all precincts in the city’s 2nd Council District. Results posted shortly before 6 a.m. Wednesday showed Pearce had 3,557 votes — nearly 51 percen...

Long Beach voters accepted Mayor Robert Garcia’s pitch for a sales tax increase, approving the ballot measure calling for a 10-year tax hike won polls with 59.5 percent of the vote. The tally, with all precincts reporting, showed nearly 37,100 voters cast ballots in favor of the tax measure. Opponen...

Long Beach voters appear to be accepting Mayor Robert Garcia’s pitch for a sales tax increase, as the ballot measure calling for a 10-year tax hike is ahead in the polls with 59 percent of the vote counted as of about 12:45 a.m. Wednesday. The tally showed roughly 19,500 voters cast ballots in favor...

U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn, who is abandoning her House seat in a bid to retu to local politics, appeared headed for a runoff Tuesday with her chief opponent for a seat on the county Board of Supervisors. With vote-by-mail ballots and nearly 60 percent of the precincts counted, Hahn was falling short of ...

Long Beach City Council candidate Jea ine Pearce’s lead over opponent Eric Gray has grown in the race to represent the city’s 2nd Council District. An updated count shows her having an 87-vote advantage as of about 2:45 a.m. Wednesday. With 23 of 28 precincts reporting, Pearce has 2,932 votes to Gra...

Long Beach voters appear to be accepting Mayor Robert Garcia’s pitch for a sales tax increase, as the ballot measure calling for a 10-year tax hike is ahead in the polls with 59 percent of the vote counted as of about 12:45 a.m. Wednesday. The tally showed roughly 19,500 voters cast ballots in favor...

U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn, who is abandoning her House seat in a bid to retu to local politics, appeared headed for a runoff Tuesday with her chief opponent for a seat on the county Board of Supervisors. With vote-by-mail ballots and nearly 60 percent of the precincts counted, Hahn was falling short of ...

Election results in the race to represent Long Beach’s 2nd Council District continue to be show a very close contest — the latest tally has City Council candidate Jea ine Pearce with a 41-vote lead over opponent Eric Gray. Los Angeles County elections officials posted the new tally about 2 a.m. Wedn...

Califo ia Atto ey General Kamala Harris opened up a big early lead Tuesday over Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Orange, in the race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. But Sanchez led Republicans Duf Sundheim, Phil Wyman and Tom Del Beccaro – and the rest of the 34-candidate field – laying the grou...

Updated retu s show City Council candidates Eric Gray and Jea ine Pearce have the same number of votes — 1,059 — in the race to represent Long Beach’s 2nd Council District. Los Angeles County elections officials posted the tally about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. Gray, who owns a technology supply company ca...

U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn, who is abandoning her House seat in a bid to retu to local politics, held a healthy lead over her chief opponent for a seat on the county Board of Supervisors in early election retu s Tuesday. With vote-by-mail ballots and 24 percent of the precincts counted, Hahn was teeterin...

U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn, who is abandoning her House seat in a bid to retu to local politics, held a healthy lead over her main opponent for a seat on the county Board of Supervisors in early election retu s Tuesday. With just vote-by-mail ballots counted, Hahn was teetering just below the crucial 50 ...

Early retu s among candidates hoping to replace Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich show that Kathryn Barger appears to have the lead, with Bob Huff, Ara Najarian and Darrell Park were all in a close race for second place. Antonovich, who has held the San Fe ando Valley’s 5th District s...

Long Beach voters appear to be accepting Mayor Robert Garcia’s pitch for a sales tax increase, as the ballot measure calling for a 10-year tax hike is ahead in the polls with 59 percent of the vote counted as of about 10 p.m. Tuesday. The tally showed nearly 10,700 voters cast ballots in favor of th...

Prosecutors are seeking a five-year prison term for the former second-in-command of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, who was dubbed the “ringleader’’ of a multifaceted conspiracy to thwart a federal probe of misconduct in the jails, according to court papers obtained Tuesday. Former Unde...

A beaming Hillary Clinton claimed the Democratic party’s nomination for president on Tuesday night, embracing her role as a glass ceiling-breaking woman and continuing her attack on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. “Thanks to you, we reached a milestone,” the former secretary of state, s...

Incumbent lawmakers and a host of challengers are tangling in Tuesday’s primary. The open primary system in Califo ia races calls for the two candidates with most votes in a given race to face off in the November general election. Voters approved the new system in 2010, when they passed Proposition ...

A South Los Angeles man was arrested Tuesday on federal fraud charges for allegedly participating in a lottery scam that targeted elderly victims with promises of cash prizes and cars – as long as they paid taxes and fees. Carl Dean Bullock, 65, was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on 13 coun...

Califo ian voters in today’s statewide primary election are poised to give Hillary Clinton a smooth ride to a historic Democratic presidential nomination or a rockier road in the form of a victory and continued hope for insurgent Vermont Sen. Be ie Sanders. Meanwhile, presumptive Republican presiden...

Staff and wire reports Hillary Clinton is embracing her historic mantel as the first female nominee of a major political party. Her campaign created a video featuring footage of pivotal moments in women’s history interspersed with images of Clinton. The video will play before she takes the stage ton...