Torrance News

A former South Bay man who ran a popular prostitute-rating Web site pleaded guilty to two felonies Tuesday in an Arizona courtroom.

11 a.m. Jan. 24 to 2:30 p.m. Jan. 26, 17400 block of Wellfleet Avenue. A security door was damaged and a garbage disposal was removed from a kitchen sink.

A woman killed when she drove off the side of the Marina Freeway in Del Rey has been identified as a Torrance resident.

The Madrona Marsh needs docents to keep its preschool and school-aged tours going.

That infamous letter from "Ellie Light of Long Beach" brought a clatter of opinion to the normally sedate daily breeze.com/bogert district of the Web site.

Torrance. The Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation presents "four bitchin' babes" in a fundraising performance Saturday of "Hormonal Imbalance." The show features four funny and multitalented musician gal pals in a show full of music, comedy and fun, as the women examine and celebrate the lives of today's men and women.

Now that Toyota has announced a fix and initiated repairs on the sticking gas pedals that prompted it to recall 2.3million vehicles, the real trouble for the company will start.

Part of a hillside on the San Pedro/Rancho Palos Verdes border collapsed Friday.

In case you hadn't heard, talking on the phone and texting while driving are illegal.

Deckhand Jerry Fine, right, uses a gaff to bring fisherman Randy Mosteller s jumbo squid aboard the boat.

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius hybrid car is under investigation by the U.S. Transportation Department for reports of defective brakes in its 2010 model, adding to recalls and safety questions facing the world's largest automaker.

Police closed Torrance Boulevard briefly in Torrance today to conduct an investigation into a traffic accident that occurred on Sunday.

The California Supreme Court refused today to hear the case against a Torrance man convicted of fatally stabbing his stepfather, who was a baseball coach at Harbor College.

A brand new Toyota RAV4 is displayed on the Toyota of Marin sales lot January 21, 2010 in San Rafael, California.

The vacant car wash used for the holiday seasons pumkin patch and Christmas tree lot may begin a redevelopment project on the property at Hawthorne Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway.

"God is doing something special," the 23-year-old Torrance woman wrote in March 2007, two months before she died.

We have an oatmeal cookie recipe for Maxine in Torrance, submitted by Barbara in Lakewood who, like Maxine, is a fan of McDonald's oatmeal cookies.

Move over, Torrance's restaurant row - you've got competition. In a vote of confidence in struggling Old Torrance, another restaurant plans to open its doors in the area city officials hope to transform into a bustling, pedestrian-oriented retail core.

A judge refused Thursday to dismissA the murder case or to set bail for a man accused of killing his 4-year-old daughter, who plunged to her death from a 120-foot cliff in Rancho Palos Verdes in November 2000.

The feds are printing more money for Torrance: Given the city's high unemployment rate, Torrance has qualified as being "blighted" and will receive almost $12 million in stimulus funds, reports the Daily Breeze.