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A 23-year-old Torrance Police Department officer was arrested Friday for allegedly possessing child sex abuse material.

California’s costly housing market and rising gas prices may be driving some people out of the Golden State, but several cities are among the top to live in across the U.S., according to a new report from Niche.

Bakeries in Los Angeles and Cincinnati, both with long histories in their communities, are locked in a friendly competition this week featuring team-themed treats to raise money for charities. T

A Los Angeles nun and school principal who stole more than $800,000 to pay for a gambling habit was sentenced Monday to a year in federal prison.

Torrance police warned the public to beware of burglars who appear to be targeting victims of Asian descent.

The problem’s always been around. But a shortage in substitute teachers is yet another issue made worse by the pandemic.

Police Monday were investigating the theft of more than 300 recall election ballots that were found in a man’s parked car in Torrance, resulting in his arrest.

The nun, a retired principal of a Catholic elementary school in Torrance, allegedly embezzled more than $835,000 in school funds over 10 years.

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An 18-year-old South Torrance High student had to be hospitalized shortly before his graduation. When it became clear he would not be discharged in time, his nurses arranged a ceremony for him inside Little Company of Mary.

According to the lawsuit, a boy was told to run five laps around the field at Dodson Middle School, even though he told his teacher he had the flu and could not participate. The boy collapsed while running laps and was pronounced dead due to cardiac arrest.

A Rancho Palos Verdes woman whose 2-year-old daughter died after being left in a car with the heater running was sentenced today to nearly 15 years in state prison.

Ramon Bustamante was the cashier with the long line at checkout because everyone wanted to stop by and say hello. But his family has now been forced to say goodbye after he lost his battle with COVID-19. Bustamante was happiest surrounded by his five children. The 54-year-old single dad couldn’t have them all by his side when he died...

A former Torrance police officer agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to selling dozens of guns illegally while on the force.

A hate crime suspect, who was arrested in July in Torrance after allegedly performing a Nazi salute and vandalizing an occupied vehicle with a shovel, pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges.

A Rancho Palos Verdes woman pleaded no contest Wednesday to charges stemming from the death of her 2-year-old daughter, who was left in a car with the heater running in an unincorporated area near Torrance.

Health care providers demonstrated Tuesday evening outside the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance, where a deputy shot and critically injured a patient earlier this month, to protest “gun violence and police brutality against unarmed victims, most especially within the walls of ours hospitals.”

Two 29-year-old hate crime suspects were arrested Friday for allegedly saying “white lives matter,” performing a Nazi salute and assaulting a vehicle with a shovel in Torrance. Gregory Howell, of Carson, and his wife Rachel Howell, of Seal Beach, were recorded in a road rage incident about 10:30 p.m. on July 22, according to the Torrance Police Department. In a…

Authorities are investigating two hate crime suspects who said “white lives matter,” made a Nazi salute, and allegedly attacked a vehicle with a gardening tool in Torrance.

A 42-year-old Redondo Beach man accused of assaulting two people in Torrance while hurling racial epithets is set to be arraigned Tuesday. Dennis Aaron Wyman is charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon — a car — and one count of hit-and-run driving resulting in serious injury to another person. He is also facing a special allegation…