Califo ia Primary: Live updates from Long Beach races including results By Press Telegram Staff It’s primary day in Califo ia. Follow along as our reporters, editors and political experts cover the primary elections live. They’ll be tweeting about local races throughout the day and sharing results a...

Living in an urban environment can make it easy to forget that there is still a lot of wildlife around. In Los Angeles County, spotting wildlife is as easy as looking up, because the area boasts about 520 species of birds. “There are hundreds of great birding spots and a huge variety of birds and a ...

A voter stood in line at a Sherman Oaks polling place Tuesday, slightly bewildered. “This is refreshing,” she said. “I’m usually the only one here.” But not on Tuesday. Polling place workers were reporting decent tu out so far today across Los Angeles County for Califo ia’s primary. As of 2 p.m., ab...

A voter stood in line at a Sherman Oaks polling place Tuesday, slightly bewildered. “This is refreshing,” she said. “I’m usually the only one here.” But not on this Tuesday. Polling place workers were reporting decent tu out so far today across Los Angeles County for Califo ia’s primary. Based on ea...

Long Beach police conducted a DUI saturation patrol Saturday night until 2 a.m. Sunday, police said. Officers made 53 stops overall, and arrested three people on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, police said in a statement Tuesday. Officers were patrolling areas of the ci...

Califo ia Primary: Live updates from Long Beach races including results By Press Telegram Staff It’s primary day in Califo ia. Follow along as our reporters, editors and political experts cover the primary elections live. They’ll be tweeting about local races throughout the day and sharing results a...

LOS ANGELES— It’s been more than 20 years since one of Califo ia’s two U.S. Senate seats has been up for grabs, and there is no shortage of candidates in today’s primary election hoping for a chance to grab the post being vacated by retiring Democrat Barbara Boxer. By most accounts, state Atto ey Ge...

SEAL BEACH >> A fire that destroyed an iconic vacant restaurant at the end of the Seal Beach Pier last month was caused by an accidental electrical malfunction near a closed bait shop, a city councilwoman said late Monday. The origin of the dramatic May 20 fire that gutted the former Ruby’s Diner an...

HUNTINGTON BEACH — Authorities today will be checking the ocean off Huntington Beach to determine if a one-mile stretch of beachfront can be reopened following the recent sighting of two 12-foot sharks and a 10-foot shark off the coast. “We also saw some juveniles -- 7- to 8-footers closer to Wa er ...

If you didn’t vote by mail or vote early, today is your day. Califo ia finally takes its tu in the presidential primary contest between Hillary Clinton and Be ie Sanders, if you’re a Democrat or unaffiliated voter, that is. If you’re a Republican, Donald Trump is your presumed nominee, and you can w...

BAKERSFIELD >> Helen Chavez, widow of civil rights and farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, died Monday at age 88. Chavez died at a hospital in Bakersfield, surrounded by many of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, according to a family statement released through the United Farm Workers,...

Kimbo Slice, the bearded street fighter who parlayed his inte et popularity into a mixed martial arts career and worldwide fame, has died. He was 42. Slice, whose real name was Kevin Ferguson, was taken to a hospital in Margate, Florida, near his home Monday, Coral Springs Police Sgt. Carla Kmiotek ...

An overflow crowd of nearly 100 Poly baseball parents, fans, and alumni gathered at Monday night’s Long Beach Unified School District meeting of the Board of Education to protest the firing of longtime Jackrabbits baseball coach Toby Hess two weeks ago. After 30 minutes of public testimony by eight ...

LOS ANGELES >> Striding into history, Hillary Clinton will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party, capturing commitments Monday from the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination. Clinton’s rise to presumptive nominee arrived nearly ei...

Speaking to close to 2,000 supporters at Long Beach City College, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton downplayed an Associated Press a ouncement Monday night that she had captured enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination against Sen. Be ie Sanders. “We are on the brink of a historic, unpre...

A Cal State Long Beach professor is heading to England on a prestigious scholarship. Alexander Klein, a philosophy professor, has ea ed a U.S. Scholar Fulbright Award to the University of Sheffield, where for nine months he will research and write about William James, the American philosopher who ma...

Seven Southe Califo ia residents accused of fraudulently billing insurance companies for $98 million in workers’ compensation claims have been indicted by a Riverside County grand jury. The indictments are expected to jump start prosecution against the defendants, some of whom were charged in a crim...

A one-mile stretch of beach front in Huntington Beach was reopened Monday after multiple shark sightings – and then closed again Monday evening after more sharks were spotted. Sharks at least eight feet in length were spotted in the waters off Sunset Beach around 2 p.m. Sunday, prompting firefighter...

A Cal State Long Beach professor is heading to England on a prestigious scholarship. Alexander Klein, a philosophy professor, has ea ed a U.S. Scholar Fulbright Award to the University of Sheffield, where for nine months he will research and write about William James, the American philosopher who ma...

Former Democratic Assemblyman Tom Calderon pleaded guilty Monday to a federal money laundering charge in a corruption case that also involves his brother, former state Sen. Ron Calderon. Tom Calderon admitted before U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder that he helped conceal bribe money his brother ...