Torrance News

A Torrance, California, surfer will receive a $1.8-million settlement for being accidentally shot at by city police during the 2013 manhunt for former LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner.

Freddy Ayala, 30, had to drive his family to Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday morning.

A newly released survey of 653 of California's 1,058 school systems reports teachers were paid on average $84,489, while 33 administrators earned more than $250,000 in pay alone last year.

The District Attorney's Office will not seek the death penalty against a Redondo Beach man charged with brutally stabbing his girlfriend and her mother to death in their apartment, a prosecutor said Thursday.

A bearded man shoplifted video game systems on three occasions in May and June from the Target store at 3433 Sepulveda Blvd. in Torrance.

A Redondo Beach surfer who was shot at and his car rammed by police officers during the manhunt for ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner will receive $1.8 million in a settlement, it was announced Thursday.

The Northwest Automotive Press Association has given the Lexus CT 200h its Favorite Hybrid title.

Last chance! Kiel Johnson's "Urban Sprawl Project: River Front" is among the work in "Watchmen: Surveillance and The Flaneur," which ends Saturday at the Torrance Art Museum.

Six years after approving $355 million worth of construction bond measures, voters in the Torrance Unified School District in November will be asked to green light two more for nearly $200 million.

State Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi of Torrance has been fined $800 by the state Fair Political Practices Commission for failing to report campaign contributions to the California Secretary of State.

Six years after approving $355 million worth of construction bond measures, voters in the Torrance Unified School District in November will be asked to green light two more for nearly $200 million.

Mark your calendar for RealShare ORANGE COUNTY on August 21 at Hotel Irvine Jamboree Center.

A worker cleans the logo on the Herbalife sign as finishing touches are put on the company's new building in Torrance, Calif.

The Torrance quartet's third full album, which comes out Tuesday, only lasts 19 minutes, but it's hard to imagine that making it any longer would have made it any more riveting.

Customers filled out a three-part NCR form, and then the staff manually entered the job information into an Excel spreadsheet.

An 82-year-old Torrance woman with dementia who wandered away from home was found in Long Beach, a family member said Friday.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies have arrested three people suspected of being an "identity theft crew" whose victims included Peninsula and South Bay residents.

Phenomenex Inc. has revealed it will be launching a spin-off company focusing on biological sampling called Neoteryx LLC. Neoteryx is an independent company that aims to develop novel technologies and products for the collection, handling, and analysis of biological fluids in the pharmaceutical and clinical industries.

A Torrance family asked for the public's help Thursday to find an 82-year-old woman who wandered away from home.

The Honey Island Swamp Band, whose recent CD is "Cane Sugar," plays Bayou Americana on Wednesday at St. Rocke in Hermosa Beach.