Carson News

A man who was killed when he stumbled and fell under a Torrance Transit bus was identified Friday as a Lakewood resident.

Cal State Dominguez is putting on a production titled "Lunch," based on stories shared by local eighth-graders on what's important in their lives.

Two weeks after regaining the power to mute other speakers at City Council meetings, Carson Mayor Jim Dear persuaded his allies to lift the only restriction on his own speech.

A long line stretches down the track as people wait and sign in for H1N1 vaccines that were given out for free Monday at the Home Depot Center in Carson.

Whatever happened to the great California dream - the promise of a good, affordable education for every qualified, committed student? That dream was hammered into policy in 1960 in the California Master Plan for Higher Education.

Monday's venue for free swine flu vaccinations, the Home Depot Center in Carson, is expected to be one of the largest yet in Los Angeles County.

Talk about one heck of a football weekend for former Oilers quarterback and Dynamo president and GM Oliver Luck.

So, who is the 60 Watt Kid? Until now, that's a question that - at least for a certain local apartment complex - had never been answered.

An investigation was under way today into the death of a man whose body was found inside a burned-out shack in a field near the Harbor Freeway and 190th Street, close to the Carson-Los Angeles border, authorities said.

The body of a transient man was discovered in a burned out shack in Carson Saturday.

Cries of censorship have erupted in Carson in response to a pair of City Council actions that appear designed to silence critics of Mayor Jim Dear and his allies.

There's been a lot to pay attention to this week — Election Day, the World Series and leftover Halloween candy. But if you got a paycheck this week, here's one more thing you may notice: As of Nov. 1, more state tax is being withheld from your income with every check.

Here's an explanation, with help from the Franchise Tax Board and local tax preparers, of what happened, why, and why you'll probably get that extra money back — eventually.

A Los Angeles County Sheriff 's deputy was shot in the back Tuesday night during a gun battle in Lawndale .

Mary Garcia, with her son Andrew, 4, is planning to attend her sister Sgt. Eduviges Wolf's funeral in South Dakota.

What's going on at Carson High School with all the digging and taking down their school sign? Everybody I ask, nobody seems to know.

FILE PHOTO Carson Mayor Daryl Sweeney during a press conference announcing he will not step down as mayor.

A Carson commissioner with close ties to Mayor Jim Dear has stepped down amid rumors that he was harassing city employees.

A 34-year-old Carson man was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder today for stabbing to death a couple in their 70s during a 2004 robbery at the victims' Cerritos home.

A 20-year-old man accused of binding a 15-year-old boy with duct tape and sexually assaulting him near a Cerritos warehouse may have assaulted an adult victim in Carson, authorities said Thursday.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office is investigating claims of misuse of public funds by a Carson battered women's shelter, the office confirmed Monday.