Carson News

Construction is set to begin soon on a new campus that will accommodate students from overcrowded Banning and Carson high schools, despite a renewed legal challenge and continued complaints from Carson ...

BP Plc , Europe's second-largest oil company by market value, reported a crude oil spill inside an electrical manhole at its Carson, California, refinery, according to a state regulatory filing.

Construction workers using a backhoe today punctured an underground natural gas main feeding a Carson business area.

Cindy Shuler has been collecting potted plants in her front yard for decades. After 9-11, she started adding American flags, and now has 13 of them - one for each of the original colonies.

Two bank robbery suspects were arrested Friday afternoon after police pulled over a Chevrolet SUV and found stolen cash hurriedly stuffed under the dashboard as it sped away from the scene of a bank heist.

The city of Carson has been ordered to pay attorneys' fees to Vera Robles Dewitt, who recently won a yearlong legal battle to force a recall election of Mayor Jim Dear.

The city of Carson has awarded an $8.4 million contract to its existing bus operator, First Transit, reversing an initial recommendation to switch to a rival company that had been involved in the city's ...

"I'm not intimidated by boys," said Charlotte Sometimes, born Jessica Charlotte Poland.

Speaking at a July 12 reelection fundraiser for state Senator Jenny Oropeza , former LB Harbor Commissioner/former Vice Chair of the Dem Nat'l Committee Carmen Perez told a crowd filled with prominent Dems and ...

Ruby Gonzales, 6, joins teachers and parents outside the L.A. Unified School District's area headquarters in Gardena to protest Principal Anna Barraza.

Gardena may soon have the tightest restrictions on registered sex offenders in the South Bay, because officials say the city has too many of them.

A motorcyclist was killed when he tried to cut between two big rig trucks on the Artesia Freeway in Carson, but struck one of them when the space closed, police said today.

Carson's largest public employee union is the driving force behind the city's bid to put a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot, officials said Tuesday.

The city of Carson is preparing to ask voters to support a half-cent sales tax increase on the November ballot, as the city seeks enough revenue to avoid deep cuts in services or years of projected deficits.

Jerry Mora, 49, a Latino man was stabbed to death during an argument in the 700 block of East Deloras Drive in Carson about 5 p.m. Saturday, July 5. Mora was taken to a UCLA-Harbor Hospital.

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Zora Selliken, 98, has been making quilts for the needy for more than 30 years. The quilters meet Thursdays at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Torrance.

South Bay nonprofit organizations that rely on fireworks sales during the Fourth of July holiday to raise money are annoyed that Gov.

Two men attending an annual motorcycle club party were shot early Sunday in an unincorporated area west of Carson, police said.

The suspects accused of killing a Pico Rivera grandmother when she tried to stop one of them from tagging will be back in court next month.