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The Hawthorne City Council has taken over a selection process typically assigned to consulting firms or human resource professionals - finding qualified candidates to be the city's top administrator.

SpaceX Dragon was grappled by robot arm, on May 25, 2012 and then became the first commercial space capsule in history to be connected to the International Space Station.

Two people were injured in a Hawthorne car accident after two vehicles collided at a street intersection, the night of May 26, 2012.

Kiplinger.com, a personal finance magazine, recognized us as one of the Top 10 Great Cities to Raise Your Kids.

Running ahead of schedule, station commander Oleg Kononenko and flight engineer Don Pettit opened the hatch to Dragon just before 6 a.m. EDT , NASA mission commentator Josh Byerly reported from Mission Control in Houston.

Two children and their mother were killed today and two others were injured when their van collided with a car driven by a suspected drunken driver in the unincorporated Willowbrook area of Los Angeles County, the California Highway Patrol said.

Authorities say a suspected drunk driver struck a van in Southern California, killing a mother and her two daughters and injuring two others.

SpaceX made history over the weekend when it's Dragon cargo vessel performed all the tests needed and was cleared to dock with the International Space Station.

An SUV and a sedan collided at Rosecrans and Prairie avenues about 11:10 p.m. Saturday, and paramedics treated three people -- someone who had been ejected, a person trapped in the wreckage and third person, county fire dispatcher Ed Pickett said.

The private company SpaceX made history Friday with the docking of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the most impressive feat yet in turning routine spaceflight over to the commercial sector.

Opportunity sees its own shadow on the rim of Endeavour crater, Meridiani Planum, Mars.

A couple of weeks ago, the brief description of Los Angeles County Superior Court judicial candidate Kim Smith on an online legal encyclopedia gave the gender of the Hawthorne deputy city attorney as "female." And although Smith is a man - which is now made clear in the Wikipedia-related site - the mix-up points to the elusive campaign he's run ... (more)

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This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft, top, after Dragon was grappled by the Canadarm2 robotic arm and connected to the International Space Station, Friday, May 25, 2012.

Just before 10 a.m. Friday, May 25, 2012, the International Space Station's 58-foot robotic arm grabbed the Dragon capsule, which was "free drifting," pacing the space station at 17,000 mph, and made SpaceX NASA's first private space delivery contractor.

Just before 10 a.m. Friday, May 25, 2012, the International Space Station's 58-foot robotic arm grabbed the Dragon capsule, which was "free drifting," pacing the space station at 17,000 mph, and made SpaceX NASA's first private space delivery contractor.

Nearly 300 people lined up outside H&M on Thursday for the store's grand opening at the South Bay Galleria in North Redondo Beach.

An Export-Import Workshop will be held 1-5 p.m. Wednesday at El Camino College Business Training Center, 13430 Hawthorne Blvd., Hawthorne.

Two Inglewood men arrested on suspicion of robbing a woman of her iPhone in El Segundo could be responsible for crimes in other cities, police said Thursday.

NASA has given the SpaceX permission to start maneuvering its privately-operated Dragon space capsule toward the International Space Station.