Torrance

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…

A woman who made a pair of racist rants aimed at Asian Americans at a Torrance park in June was wanted for an alleged battery charge, and arrested Friday. The charge stems from an October incident at Del Amo Mall in Torrance. Lena Hernandez, 56, identified as a retired social worker, allegedly verbally assaulted a custodian at the mall, then…

A woman dubbed “Torrance Karen,” who was caught on video going on racist rants in June, will not be charged with any crime related to those incidents, the Torrance City Attorney’s Office said Thursday. She will, however, be charged with battery for an incident dating back to 2019.  Lena Hernandez was identified by Torrance police after a video of...

A typed letter posted on the front door of a shop in Torrance has become evidence in a hate crime investigation Tuesday. The letter reads: “We want you to move out.” It also goes on to threaten violence. The owner of the Japanese cookware shop says it’s is the worst type of racism he’s experienced since he moved to...

More people with videos and photos have come forward Thursday after recognizing a woman seen in a viral video berating a young woman working out on the stairs at Wilson Park in Torrance, California, telling the woman to “go back to whatever … Asian country she belongs in.” A 42-year-old Torrance father, who identifies as Asian-American and wished to remain…

Editor’s Note: There is an updated version of this story after more people came forward. Read it here. A video from the South Bay was spreading like wildfire on social media after it showed an older woman berating a younger woman working out at Wilson Park in Torrance, telling her to “go back where she came from” and “get...