Torrance News

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.

Pam Schultz didn't know what to say Wednesday when a caller told her a federal judge declared the California death penalty unconstitutional in overturning a 1995 case.

Torrance >> The newly seated City Council will try to appoint a successor to Pat Furey on Aug. 12, just two days before a deadline that would trigger a special election costing about $200,000.

Thanks to proposed tax breaks, Tesla Motors Inc. now may have its sights set on California for its planned Gigafactory.

Under a new initiative called the South Bay Promise, eligible students graduating from high schools in the Inglewood Unified and Centinela Valley school districts are guaranteed admission at the two public colleges in the area - Cal State Dominguez Hills and El Camino College.

A Brazilian rest home for the elderly believes it may be home to the world's oldest person, a former agricultural laborer born in a runaway slave community, who is identified in documents stating he was born 126 years ago at a time when Brazil still had an emperor.

Luciene Atilano lost a lifetime of family photos when thieves took two plastic bins full of items from her Torrance apartment carport.

Never Hungover Again begins with a cold open - just a one-second chord and vocalist/guitarist Barry Johnson "looking at your face in the dark" - of a lanky pop song that already seems to be in progress.

Torrance >> When Ted Lieu won election to the state Assembly in 2005, his colleagues on the fractured Torrance City Council struggled to appoint a replacement.

Yocio Gomez walked into a Torrance courtroom Friday to be sentenced in the 2012 deaths of two Caltrans workers in a DUI crash on the 405 Freeway.

A 22-year-old man suspected of wielding a gun during robberies of electronics stores in Long Beach and Torrance was facing felony charges today, authorities said.