WASHINGTON >> The Obama administration is ru ing out of time and options to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, so officials are scrambling to release as many prisoners as possible and considering novel legal strategies that include allowing some men to strike plea deals by video-tele...

JERUSALEM >> Israeli authorities say they have obtained “high value information” about the Hamas militant group’s tu el network in the Gaza Strip after arresting a 17-year-old fighter. Israel said Sunday that the teen was nabbed last month after crossing a border fence and entering Israel. It says a...

Bill Clinton stumps for Hillary in the South Bay By Staff Reports Former President Bill Clinton made two stops in the South Bay on Saturday, making a final case for his wife’s presidential’s bid in her tight battle with Vermont Sen. Be ie Sanders with just three days to go before the Califo ia prima...

ARCADIA >> Beholder had just won her eighth consecutive race, a 1 1/2-length victory over Stellar Wind in the $400,000 Grade I Vanity Mile on Saturday at Santa Anita that put her over $4.7 million in career ea ings, when owner B. Wayne Hughes was asked in the wi er’s circle if he was looking forward...

LOS ANGELES — Former Secretary of Sate Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Be ie Sanders have spent most of today reaching out to voters across the Southland in the run-up to Tuesday’s Califo ia Primary Election. Former President Bill Clinton was also in the area, making the case for his wife’s quest t...

The head of the Harbor Commission said this week leaders passed a $1.17 billion budget for the Port of Los Angeles for the upcoming year that anticipates growth in cargo volumes and will help the port “stay the course.” The newly approved budget anticipates $452.8 million in operating receipts, whic...

It began with five cases, 35 years ago. In 1981, a cluster of Los Angeles men suffered from a rare form of pneumonia. Local physicians and researchers were puzzled. “Back then, it was a mystery,” said Dr. Michael Gottlieb, an immunologist with a practice in Los Angeles. “We knew very little about th...

Hikers hit a 67-mile-long wildland trail Saturday that’s taken 40 years to construct between Los Angeles and Ventura counties. The Backbone Trail, which now runs uninterrupted through some of Southe Califo ia’s last wild lands within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, opened during...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. >> Muhammad Ali crafted the plan for his final tribute years ago, long before he died. On Friday, his family will honor him just like he pla ed, with a global celebration in his hometown. A procession will carry his body down an avenue in Louisville that bears his name, through his b...

On May 3, members of the Rick Rackers Auxiliary of Assistance League of Long Beach dressed in pearls to install the 2016-2017 gove ing body officers led by incoming chair, Sheryl Pearl. Assistance League president Suza e Powell was on hand to present Sheryl with the Winifred Campbell white orchid co...

The head of the Harbor Commission said this week leaders passed a $1.17 billion budget for the Port of Los Angeles for the upcoming year that anticipates growth in cargo volumes and will help the port “stay the course.” The newly approved budget anticipates $452.8 million in operating receipts, whic...

Here’s a weird fact about streets and trees: There aren’t a lot of pines on Pine, virtually no lindens on Linden or chestnuts on Chestnut. There’s a similar dearth of cedars on Cedar and elms on Elm. Drive down Magnolia, though, and the street is alive with magnolias, the curbs awash in the eponymou...

By Doug McIntyre, Columnist Another political campaign, another broken promise. But this promise wasn’t broken by one of the candidates. I broke it. I swore I wouldn’t write another column about the hideous 2016 presidential race until after the Califo ia primary. Then last week happened. More anarc...

The Latest on the death of Muhammad Ali (all times EDT): 3:45 p.m. Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says one of the many ways that he’ll fondly remember Muhammad Ali is for how he liked to torment his opponents before fights. “He would go to the training camp of his opponents and talk to...

LOS ANGELES — Be ie Sanders’ political revolution — and how far he’s willing to take his presidential campaign — may hinge on the outcome of the Califo ia primary Tuesday, with Hillary Clinton poised to clinch the Democratic nomination in the coming days. Sanders is showing few signs of surrender as...

If you bought a Mega Millions ticket in Long Beach, you might want to grab it and check your numbers. Someone in the city matched five of six numbers in last night’s draw to win $900,790, Califo ia Lottery officials said Saturday. The wi ing ticket was sold at Veras Market, at 3667 Delta Ave. in Lon...

Three-time heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who boasted that he was “The Greatest” and usually backed it up, has died at the age of 74. Perhaps the most controversial and yet colorful athlete of the 20th century, he was villified for refusing induction into the Army during the Vietnam War b...

This week, Califo ia will become the fifth state to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with prescriptions from their doctors, but getting those prescriptions won’t be easy. Starting June 9, terminally ill Califo ians with six months or less to live can request a doctor’s prescription f...

LOS ANGELES — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Be ie Sanders will spend most of today reaching out to voters across the Southland in the run-up to Tuesday’s Califo ia Primary Election. Former President Bill Clinton will also be in the area, making the case for his wife’s qu...

Southe Califo ia air pollution regulators on Friday joined 10 other state and local agencies in demanding that the federal gove ment impose tough national rules to slash emissions from big rig trucks. “In order to meet national clean air goals, we need the federal gove ment to adopt more stringent s...