Texas aquarium accidentally kills nearly all fish in its biggest indoor tanks

Texas State Aquarium accidentally killed almost all the fish in its two biggest indoor tanks, an aquarium spokesman told the Los Angeles Times. The animals at the aquarium in Corpus Christi died Tuesday when a new medication was introduced into...

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Cities criticize California water cuts as unfair, unrealistic

Representatives of urban water suppliers and advocacy groups from across the state have criticized a plan from state water regulators that would force some to cut water consumption by as much as 35% over the next year. In more than 200 letters...

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Baseball: Logan Pouelsen leads Huntington Beach comeback win

Down, 5-1, early on, Huntington Beach rallied for a 9-5 victory over Edison on Wednesday in a Sunset League game. Logan Pouelsen had a double, triple and four RBI for the Oilers (11-7, 3-1). He also struck out two in his one inning of relief. Jake Scott...

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Baseball: Jeremy Polon pitches ECR past Chatsworth, 4-1

You can always count on a little drama in the El Camino Real-Chatsworth game. Left-hander Jeremy Polon of El Camino Real was cruising along with a 4-0 lead. Then Chatsworth loaded the bases in the seventh. Would the Chancellors pull out a comeback...

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Drew Rucinski has spotty effort in spot start as Angels lose in Texas

No matter how well Drew Rucinski pitched Tuesday night, he was not going to remain in the Angels rotation for long, not with Garrett Richards on the verge of returning from left-knee surgery. But Rucinski was so shaky in his first major league...

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Grand Jury urges Central Coast city of Guadalupe to dissolve

A speck along the Central Coast, the city of Guadalupe, population 7,080, has seen a lot of history: Father Junipero Serra hauled in the now-agricultural mecca's first cattle, and the sets for director Cecil B. DeMille's silent 1923 epic "The Ten Commandments"...

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Clippers guaranteed at least a No. 3 seed after beating Suns, 112-101

The Clippers won their seventh game in a row, and their 14th of their last 15 games after beating the Suns in Phoenix, 112-101, in their final game of the regular season. More importantly, the win guaranteed the Clippers (56-26) at least a No....

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Angels fall to Rangers, 8-2, thanks to Robinson Chirinos' five RBIs

AT THE PLATE: The Angels threatened in the first two innings, but Rangers starter Nick Martinez got Matt Joyce to line out to shortstop and David Freese to ground out to first with two on to end the first, and Erick Aybar to ground into an inning-ending...

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Los Angeles pays $8 million to settle wrongful-imprisonment lawsuit

A man whose murder conviction was thrown out by a judge after he spent 17 years in prison said Monday that an $8.3-million legal settlement from the city of Los Angeles could not make up for the years he lost behind bars. "We've suffered and we're still...

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Spencer Hawes hasn't been the player the Clippers expected him to be

That Spencer Hawes has had a poor season in almost every way isn't something the Clippers reserve center is hiding from. Hawes was honest when asked to evaluate his substandard play. "It's been bad," he said. "There's no other way to put it....

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Famed P-22 mountain lion stuck under house, won't come out

The famed mountain lion P-22 wandered into a classic L.A. moment Monday when he holed up under a home in Los Feliz as helicopters buzzed overhead, news vans crowded the streets and a TV network offered the city a live feed of the attempt to free the...

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Metro to study converting busy Orange Line busway to a rail line

A generation ago, Los Angeles County officials envisioned a subway that would gather up commuters across the San Fernando Valley and whisk them to downtown Los Angeles, avoiding the infamous traffic of the 101 Freeway. But after years of funding, design...

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Earthquake: magnitude 3.5 tremor jolts L.A.

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Sunday night about a half mile from View-Park Windsor Hills in South Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:17 p.m. Pacific time and occurred at...

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Jaime Penedo, Alan Gordon lead Galaxy to 1-0 win over Seattle Sounders

The Galaxy had just one direction to go heading into Sunday's game with the Seattle Sounders. The team was already in the Western Conference cellar, hadn't won in its last four tries and was missing so many regulars to injury — among them reigning...

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Many small firms may face health insurance rate changes under Obamacare

In recent years, as millions of individual consumers coped with new and different kinds of health insurance, small businesses got some breathing room. Millions of small businesses nationwide — and an estimated 70% of California's small firms that offer...

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Lakers moving ahead on planned training center in El Segundo

The Lakers took an expected, but important, step in the development of their new training facility, receiving preliminary approval from the El Segundo City Council last week to keep moving ahead with their plans. A final vote will be taken in June....

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Track & Field: Williams wins 100 and 200 at Arcadia

Lauren Rain Williams made quite a debut at the Arcadia Invitational. The Oaks Christian sophomore won the 100-meter dash in a wind-aided 11.42 seconds and the 200-meter dash in 23.57 at the Arcadia Invitational.  She also anchored the Lions'...

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Bosco's Matt Katnik gives his best effort in shotput at Arcadia

From the moment he stepped into the shotput ring Saturday afternoon, Matt Katnik was confident he could win the Elite Invitational competition at the 48th Arcadia Invitational at Arcadia High. The USC-bound senior from Bellflower St. John Bosco...

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Clayton Kershaw is roughed up in Dodgers' 6-0 loss to Arizona

Clayton Kershaw can't explain why his season has started the way it has. Yasiel Puig can't explain his slow start, either. Kershaw was knocked around Saturday in a 6-0 defeat to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field, the last two runs coming on a...

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Grinding effort goes Clippers' way for 94-86 win over Grizzlies

The Clippers intended to win a fight for one of the top playoff seedings in the Western Conference, not a battle of attrition. Things changed considerably in the first quarter Saturday night when Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol sprained his...

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California PUC member moves to block Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger

Just days before an important public hearing, a California Public Utilities Commission member has raised the stakes by proposing the regulatory panel block Comcast's bid to acquire Time Warner Cable. PUC Commissioner Mike Florio on Friday submitted...

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Kings against Sharks in finale won't be the game that was anticipated

The NHL's schedule makers had a delicious and almost warped sense of humor when they crafted the opening- and closing-day programs. Kings vs. Sharks. San Jose had to watch the Kings raise their Stanley Cup champion banner on Oct. 8 at Staples Center,...

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Lakers vs. Timberwolves: quarter-by-quarter updates

The Lakers stopped a five-game skid with a 106-98 victory over the depleted Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night. Ryan Kelly led the Lakers with 21 points, making five of six three-point shots.  Rookie Jabari Brown added 20 points and had a...

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Baseball: JSerra wins Southern California Division of Boras Classic

JSerra's pitching has been magificient this week, and the Cavaliers ended up winning the Southern California Division of the Boras Classic on Friday night with a 5-0 win over Trinity League rival Santa Ana Mater Dei. Jack Owen threw a complete game...

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'Disturbing' video shows deputies beating man after horse pursuit

A group of San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies are seen in a video shot Thursday repeatedly kicking and punching a suspect at the end of a bizarre horseback pursuit in a scene the county's sheriff described as "disturbing." A KNBC Channel 4 helicopter...

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Sprint to pay $15.5 million to settle DOJ wiretap overcharging case

Sprint on Thursday agreed to pay the government $15.5 million to resolve allegations that it overcharged for carrying out court ordered wiretaps, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The telecommunications company did not...

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Pittsburgh Steelers' Troy Polamalu retires

Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu, among the most revered players in franchise history, is retiring. He announced the decision Thursday in an interview with the Herald-Standard of Uniontown, Pa. Polamalu, 33, a standout at USC, was selected...

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Census Bureau guard fatally shot; suspect nabbed after chase, shootout

A guard at the U.S. Census Bureau headquarters in Maryland was shot at least once Thursday evening before the suspect and a Washington, D.C., police officer were shot following a high-speed chase, officials said. The guard died at the...

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Adrian Gonzalez hits three homers to power Dodgers to 7-4 win

He did it again. Then again. And then still again. Very repetitive, in that wonderful kind of way. By the time Adrian Gonzalez was finished breaking records for the night, he had hit three home runs Wednesday, which only gave him five in the first...

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Lakers season-ticket renewals will be due before NBA draft lottery

As the 2014-15 season stumbles to a conclusion, the Lakers are readying their season-ticket holders for next year's campaign. That's right, it's time for annual renewals. The big question facing those holding Lakers season tickets is whether...

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