After a series of problems that included a police officer using a racial slur, the new police chief in a Tennessee town is trying to clean up his department's image by requiring all applicants to take a polygraph test.
"North Korean social media." In the famously restrictive country, where people have almost no Internet contact with the outside world, it sounds like an oxymoron.
Former tennis star Jennifer Capriati is batting down accusations -- which led a Florida police department to seek an arrest warrant -- that she stalked and punched an ex-boyfriend.
DANA POINT – When avid whale watchers Elissa and Jody Thompson didn't see any sea life during the first hour of their boat trip out of Dana Point Harbor, they thought something was up.
"We come out at least once a week and you see pods of dolphins...
In 1983, the West Indies cricket team was on top of the world. Then a group of its players ruined their careers by agreeing to tour apartheid-era South Africa in return for large sums of money and were subsequently shunned as traitors by their own people.
Five days before Christmas 1943, a helpless American bomber pilot locked eyes with a German fighter pilot in the frozen skies above war-torn Europe. What followed was a remarkable act of chivalry between enemies who discovered a "higher call" -- and a deep connection that reverberated for decades.
In a case that has captured international attention, two of Saudi Arabia's most prominent human rights activists were each sentenced on Saturday to at least 10 years in prison, Saudi activists report.
CERRITOS – One by one they came to the microphone.
They talked of Courtney Aoki's flair for the theatrical, of her compassion, of the way she grabbed life with both hands.
But there was an underlying frustration that they could not save Aoki, 20,...
Debris from a controversial 2007 missile test collided with a Russian satellite earlier this year, rendering the BLITS satellite unusable, a researcher said Saturday.
The 11th annual Kite Party convened Saturday in Huntington Beach, filling the skies of Surf City near the pier. More than 100 professional kite fliers from across Southern California and the world participated, offering demonstrations, flying kites...
Four years ago an unknown startup called MakerBot showed up at the South by Southwest Interactive conference here with a prototype of its first desktop 3-D printer, which spit out plastic replicas of small objects.
The future of space travel will depend on our ability to make rockets that can be used more than once, says SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. And on Saturday, he gave a crowd at the South by Southwest Interactive festival the world's first look at a step in that direction.
Black or white smoke will come from one of these stoves in the Sistine Chapel to signify whether a pope has been elected. Cardinals begin their conclave Tuesday.
ANAHEIM – Dressed in all black and flashing a large silver skull ring on each of his ring fingers, Chris "Captain" Campbell was getting ready to auction off more than 573 arcade games Saturday morning, 77 of those pinball machines.
Campbell, who...
We like our wars clean and shiny, with perfect good guys and awful bad guys, with the wounded brushing aside pain and waving during parades.
There are times when that makes sense. But there also are times to go deep, to grapple with PTSD and...
PLACENTIA – A 19-year-old man was arrested Saturday morning in connection with a Wednesday night shooting that killed a man and wounded a teenager, police said.
Christopher Antonio Rodas, 19, of Placentia was arrested on suspicion of murder in the...
A policeman sacrifices his life for the sake of others in southeast Afghanistan. A bomb also rocked Kabul as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was visiting.
SAN DIEGO – One sailor died and five were rescued late Friday night after a boat sank during a race co-hosted by a Newport Beach yacht club.The crew of Uncontrollable Urge issued a distress call to the U.S. Coast Guard around 9:25 p.m., during the...
All kinds of uses are already being envisioned for Google Glass eyeware, and the one that's catching our eyes is an app that would help users find their friends and family in a crowd, and vice versa.
AUSTIN -- Cat videos got a major boost last year with the first-ever Internet Cat Video Festival, and its success is leading to a number of, ahem, copycat events.
LOS ANGELES – The media dining room at Staples Center erupted in a collective roar early Friday night when those affiliated with the Lakers watched on TV as Chicago's Marco Belinelli sank a clutch 3-pointer that wound up beating the Utah Jazz.
The...
ANAHEIM – Viktor Fasth saw Jonas Hiller's shutout and raised him one as the Ducks continued to roll merrily along in this lockout-shortened season.
Fasth stopped 29 shots for his second shutout this season and the Ducks continued their mastery of...
Second of two parts.
Yesterday: John J. Stephens, the man police believe killed Garden Grove police Officer Howard Dallies in 1993, is finally arrested in 1997 but charges are dropped when a judge rules that a witness' statement was coerced. In 2003,...
LOS ANGELES – A man who was convicted of first-degree murder after a stove he had stolen fell from the back of his truck and caused a deadly accident had his conviction overturned by the California Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion published...
Austin Harrell was just 7 when his father died in Iraq, but he still remembers riding in his dad's 1993 Chevy pickup.
They went to the beach a lot. Sometimes the family would take Dad to work.
As his 16th birthday neared, Austin kept asking his...
LOS ANGELES – Metrolink's financial management has been so slipshod that auditors recently concluded the $194 million-a-year regional rail agency might not even be able to detect fraud in its accounts.
Their draft audit report is only the latest...
ORANGE – Eighth-grader Kaitlyn Pham thought she knew the history of the Holocaust because of books she studied in school.But it wasn't until the 12-year-old heard the firsthand account of Ursula Levy that Pham truly began to understand the strength...
A state panel voted Friday to reject the U.S. Navy's plan for offshore training, including the use of sonar that could harm whales.
The vote could set the stage for more conflict between the California Coastal Commission and the Navy. A similar...
Critics of the San Onofre nuclear plant say a document released Friday bolsters their belief that the plant operator, Southern California Edison, knew in advance of design flaws that have kept the plant's two reactors offline for more than a year.
A...
Californians have consistently expressed overwhelming support for Proposition 13, but opinion polling – and a key ballot measure – has also shown voters open to tweaking aspects of the landmark reform.
How far they're willing to go may soon be...
SANTA ANA – Gen. William Lyon was told there was a political luncheon for him to attend Friday at his Lyon Air Museum, adjacent to John Wayne Airport. It was a good ruse to use on a man who has stayed active in the Republican party all his life....
The Dana Point Symphony presented an evening of opera Friday for its second concert of the 2013 season.
The performance included selections from "La Gioconda," "Le Barbier de Seville," "Gianni Schicchi," "Madama Butterfly," "Les Pêcheurs de Perles"...
Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding leader, won the presidential election by a razor-thin margin, sending throngs of supporters singing and dancing on the streets.
Egyptians in two rival cities took to the street Saturday to express their outrage -- or elation -- over court verdicts in a deadly riot case that killed dozens over a year ago at a soccer game.
Move over Kim Kardashian, your crown as queen of reality TV has been stolen by rednecks. And not just one redneck, but many of them. Hollywood can't get enough redneck culture. Why? Because shows about rednecks are making Hollywood a lot of money.
The MKZ's exterior represents a compelling departure from old Lincolns, and it offers a quiet, comfortable ride, but its interior has more cheap plastic than buyers might expect.
In a dramatic debut at the 2012 New York International Auto Show, Lincoln billed the mid-sized 2013 MKZ as the standard bearer for a transformed Lincoln, the first of an array of new models to entice younger buyers.