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Torrance >> With family, friends and colleagues watching proudly, Mark Matsuda was sworn in Tuesday night as the city's ninth police chief, receiving his badge from his wife, Kristin, as the couple's three young daughters looked on.

From baby showers to funerals - and all of life's milestones in between - the San Pedro Elks Lodge is the port town's place to go to celebrate.

A former Compton Fire Department deputy chief pleaded no contest today to embezzlement and arson for stealing thousands of dollars worth of the department's Motorola radios to sell online and setting a fire to destroy evidence.

California will be a major proving ground for hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars in the next several years, representatives from five auto manufacturers, including Toyota and Honda, said Monday at a panel discussion in Torrance.

Some of the organizers and winners of the 2014 Visions of Unity Awards Competition included: sponsor Shirley Starke Wallace from the Palos Verdes chapter LINKS, Inc; Laura Oelsner, West High School - honorable mention for poetry; Shirley Ho, faculty coordinator; Melanie Nomiya of North High School - third place in the essay competition; Phylishia ... (more)

Sister Terrence Lindini blesses the kitchen with holy water at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance during ceremony to launch their new food service program.

A U.S. Postal Service proposal to close a bulk-mailing service used by only a few dozen Palos Verdes Peninsula businesses has alarmed some residents, who incorrectly believed it could affect residential mail delivery or other post office services.

That's one of the messages being posted on billboards throughout Los Angeles County starting this weekend, as part of a new public-awareness campaign to combat the worsening problem of child sex trafficking in the region.

Friends of those killed in Thursday's fiery crash near Orland describe the victims as exceptional people who were passionate about their careers.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has denied a motion by Torrance-based Robinson Helicopter Co.

Mark Matsuda has been named chief of the Torrance Police Department, where he has worked since 1987, it was announced today.

We got a request recently from Linda in Torrance, who was looking for a recipe for Chocolate Pecan Silk Supreme pie the way it's made at Bakers Square.

Every true Irishman takes pride in their culture's literary history, even if they don't happen to have read any of it.

Two men are awaiting trial on felony burglary charges in the sophisticated theft of 100 cellphones from a Torrance store last year.

Learn about this year's finalists and see who won the 2013 MT Award. 2013 MT Awards: 10X Award The 10X Award honors a company, product or technology that's had an exponential impact on mortgage finance.

By BILL HETHERMAN City News Service A jury found today in favor of an Arcadia veterinarian sued by a 79-year-old Rancho Palos Verdes woman, who claimed she had to spend tens of thousands of dollars to save her 8-year-old golden retriever's life because he botched a surgical procedure on her pet .

Manhattan Beach police are looking for a cat burglar who slipped into a Manhattan Village home overnight and stole various items.

By BILL HETHERMAN City News Service A 79-year-old Rancho Palos Verdes woman is entitled to more than $40,000 after being forced to have additional surgeries done on her 8-year-old Golden Retriever to correct the mistakes of an Arcadia vet in removing a mass around the dog's liver, an attorney told a jury today.

A billing company that does business with Los Angeles County hospitals and clinics revealed Thursday a security breach at its Torrance office in February may have compromised the personal data of twice as many people as initially thought.

The Los Angeles Times reports Thursday that more than 170,000 new patients have been identified whose Social Security numbers and other personal information was compromised in a February theft from the Torrance office of Sutherland Healthcare Solutions.