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  • Van Garderen tops podium in Tour of California

    Doug Pensinger/Getty Images SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) -- Tejay van Garderen stayed out of trouble to seal his first professional stage race title Sunday, winning the Tour of California in front of BMC Racing Team's home fans. The American cruised through the smooth and scenic final stage from San Francisco to Santa Rosa without incident to edge Australia Michael Rogers for the ...

  • Studies Links Smartphones to Lower Test Scores

    Researchers at University of California, Irvine and Carnegie Mellon University have found that people taking cognitive tests with access to smartphones and other gadgets scored 20 percent lower than those ...

  • Gay Pride Parade highlights celebration of love laughs support

    LONG BEACH -- The Long Beach Gay Pride Parade got off to a roaring start Sunday as it danced and rolled its way down Ocean Boulevard. Almost two dozen lesbian motorcyclists - including members of clubs Dykes on Bikes, the L Riders and Chrome Divas - led the parade entries west along Ocean Boulevard in the 30th annual event. Jan Schmidt and her husband, Jerry, of Newport Beach watched their ...

  • Arts Under the Oaks brings unique items to Long Beach

    LONG BEACH, MS (WLOX) - A variety of jewelry, bags, painted wine glasses and baked dishes could be found at Arts Under the Oaks in Long Beach on Sunday. Located next to the Harbor View Cafe, vendors of all sorts brought their handmade items to be sold to those looking for something different. There were wreaths made of oysters to brightly colored t-shirts and freshly made pecan pie. All ...

  • Eureka brings trendy food drink to working-class Hawthorne

    Steak salad during the grand opening VIP party for Eureka! Tasting Kitchen at Hawthorne Airport on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Eureka!, the gourmet burger and craft beer trendsetter, opened its first Los Angeles location at the airfield. The company also moved their headquarters above the eatery. (Jeff Gritchen/Staff ...


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Movie Review

Big Trouble

Following the big-budget debacle of 1999's Wild Wild West, director Barry Sonnenfeld apparently felt the need to downsize for his next film, opting to helm an adaptation of syndicated humorist Dave Berry's novel Big Trouble, which finds the paths of a gaggle of oddball characters, from a miserable housewife, to a tree-dwelling hippie, to a pair of New Jersey hitmen, chaotically inte ... ...

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  • Officers Shoot Wound Knife-Wielding Suicidal Man In Moreno Valley

    Investigators say officers from the Moreno Valley Police Department responded to a call of a man attempting to commit suicide in a locked bathroom. The 10:30 p.m. call was placed by the man’s roommate who told authorities that he was cutting himself with a knife. Upon arriving to the 24000 Block of Fir Avenue, officers say they persuaded the man to come out of the bathroom. Authorities ...

  • MLS New York 1 Los Angeles 0

    Tim Cahill's header in stoppage time Sunday elevated the New York Red Bulls over Los Angeles 1-0. Juninho got control of the ball in the 91st minute and passed it to Cahill, who launched a close-range header on net that eluded Carlo Cudicini for the game's only goal. The Red Bulls (7-4-3) held onto first place in the Eastern Conference with 24 ...

  • Man Accused of Killing Father Arrested

    A man accused of killing his father in Canyon Country was in jail Sunday after sheriff's deputies acting on a tip pulled him over and arrested him without incident, authorities ...

  • Middle-schoolers win prizes for essays on Mars exploration

    Several middle-schoolers from the South Bay are among the winners of an essay contest asking students to describe how robots and humans could work together to explore Mars. The students each took home cash prizes and joined legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin for a reception dinner last week. The two first-place winners of the contest sponsored by Raytheon and The American Institute of Aeronautics ...

  • Trinty High students research project wins award

    A seventh-grader from Holy Trinity School in San Pedro recently won the 2013 award for Academic Excellence from the Southern California Paleontological Society for his research project. With the help of science staff at Madrona Marsh in Torrance, Anthony Stenzel conducted a study he titled: "Does runoff water affect the aquatic invertebrates of the Madrona Marsh?" Specifically, he ...

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