Torrance News

El Camino College in Torrance, California has broken ground for the new STEM Center, which is designed by the California-based planning and design firm HMC.

The Torrance historical railroad bridge was rededicated and renamed the Pacific Electric Railway El Prado Bridge in a ceremony Thursday.

Convaid, Torrance, Calif, recently announced that through its community outreach program, it has created a new program designed for families to raise funds for the purchase of a lightweight Convaid Wheelchair.

Two suspected gang members have been charged with committing a distraction burglary in the city of Orange just months after they were convicted of victimizing elderly victims in Torrance, police said Wednesday.

Associate online editor Carol Ngo spotted this unknown prototype on her way in to our El Segundo office today.

Which one? That's likely to be the biggest question buyers of Honda's new line of middleweight streetbikes will face.

Eric Garcetti's victory party last night at the Hollywood Palladium drew hipsters, activists and campaign pros -- along with a few people who had, shall we say, more unusual reasons for lending their support.

The drug and alcohol counselor from Torrance who allegedly ran down a man down in her car and then drove more than two miles with him impaled in her windshield was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for murder.

A Washington, D.C., reporter for more than 30 years, Jim Limbach covers the federal agencies for ConsumerAffairs.

Additional information about crime in areas patrolled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, including links to maps of crime, is available on its website, http://sheriff.lacounty.gov/ . Grand theft: April 27, 20700 block of South Avalon Boulevard.

David Benoit welcomes Space Shuttle Endeavour Astronaut Dr. Garret Reisman to the premiere performance of "Journey of the Endeavour" Sunday at the James Armstrong Theatre.

A stranded Swedish family of seven, made penniless by airfare changes due to a family emergency, should be on its way home today thanks to sheriff's deputies sympathetic to their plight, a sheriff's official said.

The FBI said in a statement that the so-called "Make It Quick Bandit" is accused in a tenth robbery.

Filmmaker and Torrance, Calif. resident, Steven Itano Wasserman , is a fourth-generation American of Japanese and Russian Jewish descent.

Rancho Palos Verdes resident John Ryan was set to hold his going-away party today before he ships out Monday to Fort Benning., Ga., for basic training when the U.S. Army recruit learned he was expected - but not required - to march in the Armed Forces Day Parade in Torrance.

Sherri Lynn Wilkins in Torrance Superior Court on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, accused of drunk driving and killing a pedestrian with her car.

A Compton firefighter is expected to appear in court Friday to face charges he allegedly set his fire department's headquarters ablaze in an effort to destroy evidence of his suspected theft.

R: Chief Warrant Officer II Kristin Blumberg and Sgt. Christopher Hansen talk with Gene Mock a Northrop Grumman retiree chat near a LUH-72A twin engine helicopter in Torrance where military exhibits were on display for the 2012 Armed Forces Day Parade in Torrance.

This week's dance events include speed dating musicians and dancers, the latest from Ryan Heffington and Los Angeles Ballet continues to paint the town Balanchine Red.

My very first turn at the handlebars of a motorcycle came courtesy of an MSF Honda CB125.