Walt Disney leads ceremonies opening It’s a Small World ride at Disneyland.

About 200 people huddled Tuesday afternoon around a dusty pair of red and white baseball cleats hanging on a post at the west side of campus at Bolsa Grande High School in Garden Grove. Little was said at first, but weeping was heard among those gathered in memory of Coleton Mondy, 17, and Joshua Morales,…

Police will have a tougher time justifying the use of deadly force under a new bill expected to clear the state Assembly that represents a rare compromise between reformers and law enforcement groups. The proposed law, AB 392, would impose a stricter standard for using deadly force, but some say not as strict as originally…

SANTA MONICA — Amy Klobuchar is trying to grab Democrats’ attention with lots of funny lines and one seriously big infrastructure plan. The Minnesota senator smartly led with the jokes when she introduced herself to Southern California voters Monday afternoon in a “Meet the Candidate” event hosted by the Santa Monica, Malibu and Pacific Palisades…

SAN CLEMENTE — Mayor Steven Swartz, who died suddenly May 8, will be honored at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30 during a public sunset memorial service at the pier. The service will include an invocation by Rabbi Mendel Slavin of the Chabad Jewish Center of San Clemente and remarks from members of the City Council….

Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who brought order to the universe by helping discover and classify subatomic particles, has died at his home in New Mexico. He was 89. Gell-Mann died Friday at his home in Santa Fe. His death was confirmed by the Santa Fe Institute, where he held…

Last week, we touched upon some of the perils of a day at the beach — protecting yourself from the sun, staying hydrated and making it home without becoming a piece of fried bacon. This week, in part two of our annual summer beach survival guide, I want to go into some if the issues…

Fullerton plans to increase its water rates by nearly 60 percent in the next four years to repair the city’s aging infrastructure. To stabilize the system’s revenue source, the city also plans to shift its rate structure so that users pay more in a fixed fee that isn’t tied to water usage. But that change…

Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of “Confederates in the Attic,” has died. He was 60. Horwitz died Monday of apparent cardiac arrest in Washington, D.C., Sarah Hutson, a spokeswoman for his publisher, Penguin Press, said in an email. He had been on a…

By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an Indiana law that requires abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in the same way as human remains, a sign that the conservative court is more open to abortion restrictions. But the justices rejected the state’s appeal of a lower court ruling blocking…