Wilmington News

The investigative teams at Los Angeles TV stations are busy this month - it's a May ratings thing, I guess.

A former Wilmington elementary school teacher was ordered today to stand trial on 14 charges of sexually abusing students and a female relative.

A former elementary school teacher has been ordered to stand trial on 14 charges of sexually assaulting nine students and a relative.

A retired Wilmington elementary school principal invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Friday at a court hearing for a former teacher accused of molesting children at the school.

A "First Blood" march and plaque dedication is planned Wednesday to honor two local men who were among the first to die during a 1934 coastwide strike that established the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

Amador Espinosa, who worked as the secretary to Redondo Beach police chiefs for nearly 40 years, died Thursday following an illness.

LAUSD elementary school teacher Robert Pimentel, 57, during an arraignment for sex abuse charges at L.A. County Superior court in Long Beach, Calif., on January 24, 2013.

Despite opposition by environmentalists, Long Beach City Hall and one of the state's largest school district concerned about children's health, the BNSF Railyway's $500 million project was approved today by the L.A. City Council.

A new report, released to the public Tuesday, alleges that the Los Angeles Unified School District covered up sexual abuse claims related to a fourth grade teacher.

Officials Monday will discuss the possibility of Pier S as an alternative to BNSF Railway's controversial proposal to build a railyard bordering West Long Beach and Wilmington neighborhoods.

Today, that bicycle is trashed, and Parra lies in a hospital bed trying to recover from a recent hit-and-run accident in San Pedro.

The agency that manages the region's groundwater supply on Monday applauded a judge's decision ordering Wilmington's Tesoro refinery to pay overdue assessments.

The cell phone photo of Edward Anthony Contes, the alleged seller of bogus Disneyland tickets, who identified himself as "Chris Ruiz." Bombarded with phone calls, texts and Facebook messages after his photograph appeared in the Daily Breeze and its website Friday, a 31-year-old man suspected of selling $240 worth of bogus Disneyland tickets to a ... (more)

Workers with Steedle Brothers Construction lower the steel kiosk onto a truck along Sixth Street in San Pedro near Mesa Street.

Each day thousands of trucks move thousands of containers from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the transcontinental railyards south of downtown Los Angeles.

Four senior Los Angeles Unified officials, including the San Fernando Valley's local superintendent, have been removed from their positions pending an internal investigation into "a confidential personnel matter," the Daily News has learned.

The closure of a Long Beach mail sorting and distribution hub that serves a wide area of the South Bay and Harbor Area could actually help improve local delivery after July 1, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman said Wednesday.

A Delaware pastor is accused of contributing to a woman's death by allowing a violent sex offender to temporarily keep his church job, according to a civil suit.

U.S. News & World Report released its widely anticipated list of the nation's best high schools on Tuesday, and four schools from the South Bay and Harbor Area made California's top 20.