Despite new federal rules targeting seafood fraud, a study out Thursday found that one in five fish tested from U.S. restaurants and stores were sold as something different than what the customer received. Southern California cases included flounder being sold as the more expensive halibut, and toothfish, which is off-limits for fishing in some places,…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT SAN DIEGO — Border agents have been told to explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America in carrying out a Trump administration program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press that reveal some inner workings of a top government priority to address the…

LOS ANGELES — This week’s storm, which drew added moisture from an atmospheric river out of Hawaii, doused L.A. County valley areas early Thursday but is on its way out of the region, forecasters said. “After the spectacular lightning show early Wednesday morning and the periods of heavy rain that lingered into Wednesday afternoon, the…

NORWALK — An ex-con — who left a shotgun in the back seat of a car where a 4-year-old boy found the weapon and accidentally shot his mother in Norwalk — pleaded no contest Wednesday to a felony gun charge. Brandon Gilbert Ambriz, 24, of Norwalk, was immediately sentenced to five years in state prison…

The spectacular thunderstorms with their accompanying downpours that boomed across Southern California are mostly gone, but don’t throw your umbrella or mittens into the back of the closet just yet — more rain and snow are expected Thursday night into Friday. And then, what the National Weather Service is calling “a chance of showers” will…

GARDEN GROVE — A 14-year-old boy was struck by a car Wednesday, March 6, while walking to school in Garden Grove and was hospitalized in critical condition, police reported. The boy, whose name was not released, suffered a minor skull fracture, broken nose and broken jaw in the collision, which occurred just before 8:50 a.m….

The girl’s body was bent into a black roll-away duffel bag, her head and torso slightly protruding. She was dumped onto an embankment along a popular equestrian trail in light brush. She hadn’t been there long — less than 48 hours — before a worker for L.A. County Parks and Recreation clearing…

In less than seven minutes, five visiting Marines and a Lake Forest recreation supervisor had gone from dancing to performing live-saving measures and helping paramedics get a man having a heart attack onto an ambulance and to the hospital, while calming party goers. “Everything had worked the way it’s supposed to,” Recreation Supervisor Karen Rice…

Three years ago, a state law made it easier for Californians to have someone else collect and drop off their absentee ballot. Doing this on a mass scale became known as ballot harvesting. And in recent months many conservative politicians and their advisers have suggested the practice – not  Democratic voter enthusiasm nor a public…

Congressional Democrats are launching an investigation into the fate of NASA’s offer to fly a pollution-analyzing jet over the Houston region in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The investigation was spurred by a Los Angeles Times report Tuesday revealing that officials from the U.S. Environmental…