San Pedro News

Valentine's Dinner Dance. The United Methodist Men of First United Methodist Church in Compton will host their annual Valentine's Dinner Dance at 6 tonight at the Carson Community Center, 3 Civic Plaza Drive, Carson.

A skateboarders spills in the street coming down 14 th Street in San Pedro. Councilman Joe Buscaino is putting a motion before council to make "reckless" skateboarding a crime.

As easily as if she were flopping into bed, Misty Copeland falls into a ballet position known as a penchee in first arabesque.

Food stamps have been in the news lately after Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich called Barack Obama the "food stamp president." Gingrich was taking a swipe at the president by saying Obama's policies were causing people to depend on food stamps.

The executive director of a Carson-based battered women's shelter was arrested today for allegedly ordering employees to fraudulently bill the county more than $700,000, prosecutors said.

Bruno Pineda, a reputed Rancho San Pedro street gang member, faces one count of receiving stolen property and 10 counts of forgery, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office spokesman Frank Mateljan said.

A speaker played a warning siren instead of a voice announcement during a test of a mass notification system at Fort MacArthur and the Los Angeles Air Force Base housing areas of Pacific Crest and Pacific Heights in San Pedro, a Los Angeles Air Force Base spokesperson said.

Along the east coast of the United State, the threat of cyclones is an annual, persistent worry.

Photo gallery: Woman who is part of first L.A. County same-sex couple to marry reacts to Prop.

Jurors recommended a death sentence Monday for a man who killed a fellow inmate in 2005 while he was awaiting trial for the slayings of two Marymount College students in the parking lot of a San Pedro supermarket.

The Lane Victory, a World War II and and Korean War-era Victory ship, cruises the Main Channel as it moves from its former Berth 94 to a temporary home at Berth 46 in Los Angeles Harbor Monday.

The SS Lane Victory merchant ship - a San Pedro port landmark for more than two decades - will be moved to a new, temporary home on Monday.

The recent death of a skater in San Pedro has raised concern regarding the safety of skateboarding in local streets, where skaters can reach dangerous speeds, sometimes without the protection of a helmet.

Architect Bruce Biesman-Simons was chosen as the new president of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy Board of Directors, the organization announced this week.

Lisa Davidson of Redondo Beach will represent Los Angeles County on the State Council on Developmental Disabilities.

Long Beach Opera opened its 2012 season Saturday afternoon with a triumphant, glorious version of Astor Piazzolla's "operita" "Maria de Buenos Aires" that nearly filled the Warner Grand Theatre in downtown San Pedro and mixed a beautifully played score with great poetry and a political kick.

International Bird Rescuers Center Manager Julie Skoglund and Adam Ribota releases a Laysan Albatross back to the wild about a half mile at sea from Angels Gate, entrance to Los Angeles Harbor, in San Pedro, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan.

A man was driving down a Los Angeles street Friday when onlookers flagged him down, alerting him to an enormous bird that had hitched a ride in the back of his pickup truck.

The condemned killer of two Marymount College students in 1994 was found guilty Monday of murdering a fellow inmate before he was sent to death row two years later.

As you drive through San Pedro and surrounding neighborhoods you may have encountered skateboarders racing down our street and blocking traffic.