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Torrance >> Former Torrance Unified School District board member Heidi Ashcraft was appointed to the City Council Tuesday night from a field of a dozen candidates.

Growing up in Torrance, her Korean parents had always told her about the aftermath of the Korean War, people they knew who were torn from their families, and stories about North Korean children her age.

Sharp Industries will host a grand opening of its Torrance, Calif., technical center February 4-5.

General Audubon Meeting: Guest speaker Steve Wolfe will give a presentation titled “Birding in the Owens Valley.” Madrona Marsh Nature Center and Preserve, 3201 Plaza del Amo, Torrance.

Join us at the Ontario Convention Center for this half-day conference where our town hall panel will cover the market trends and provide an outlook for what to expect in 2014.

Omnis Network has launched new hosting services: virtual private servers, dedicated servers and colocation hosting; supported by a full hardware upgrade and website redesign.

In this Jan. 23, 2008 file photo, a hybrid gasoline-electric Prius enters Toyota North American headquarters in Torrance, Calif.

A South Bay special-education teacher Friday was facing disciplinary action for a comment she posted on her Facebook account.

RPV Holiday Boutique: Imaginative Creations 32nd annual holiday boutique, featuring handcrafted gifts, decorations, country crafts, Hummels, Disney collections, retired ornaments, Precious Moments items, and more.

It is that time of year again, when Christmas lights go up in the Sleepy Hollow area of Torrance, California; transforming it into Candy Cane Lane.

Charges are pending against a Torrance resident accused of lighting a car on fire in the Riviera Village area on Dec. 5, officials said.

TORRANCE >> The city will finally spend almost $1 million to upgrade security at municipally owned Zamperini Field, a decade after the project was first approved by elected officials in the wake of 9/11.

Two men and a woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a murder charge in the death of a Cerritos man whose body was discovered last month in a parking structure in Torrance.

Give a stylish revamp to your wardrobe this winter, shop from the online store of Irene's Story.

Detectives from the sheriff's Palmdale Station asked the public Tuesday for help in finding women suspected of burglary and vandalism in separate cases, both of whom are believed to still be in the area.

In the four high schools of the Torrance Unified School District, the economic downturn has taken a heavy toll on the ability of guidance counselors to meet individually with students.

A space heater started a fire in an apartment in the 1300 block of Catalina Avenue in South Redondo Beach on Monday night, displacing at least one person and causing $100,000 worth of damage, officials said.

A little-known group of Los Angeles County cities, agencies and educational institutions has pooled money and resources to produce high-resolution digital aerial images to create maps.

Team Honda Research West claimed the E1 class victory Sunday in the 11th running of the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, as Acura entries from THRW and Fantasy Junction took three of the top four E1 finishing positions in the challenging endurance contest that concluded the 2013 National Auto Sports Association season.