Joe Strummer of the Clash appearing at the music festival at the Monterey Fairgrounds.

Former USA Gymnastics chief executive Steve Penny was arrested Wednesday night on a felony evidence tampering charge related to his alleged role in his and the organization’s cover-up of U.S. Olympic and national team physician Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of hundreds of gymnasts. Penny’s arrest in a resort town in Tennessee’s Great Smokey Mountains follows…

Escalating his criticism of California’s fire management strategy, President Trump threatened Wednesday to withhold unspecified funding from the state. The comments at a Cabinet meeting were vague on details — but they nonetheless sent federal forest managers across the state scrambling to figure…

As the Trump administration considers a new way to impose a family separation program at the border, immigrant-rights advocates said Wednesday more children were taken from parents or guardians earlier this year than previously reported. Data provided by the government appears to have under-counted the number of families separated from April through June, when the Trump…

LAGUNA BEACH — More than 400 players on 55 teams competed in the ninth annual community-wide dodgeball tournament on Wednesday, Oct. 17. The popular event — which included students from the four local schools, Laguna Beach lifeguards, local business people, and parent and teacher groups — is held by SchoolPower, a parent volunteer-based, nonprofit education…

Graduation rates for California State University students hit record highs this year as campuses poured money into new faculty and expanded academic support and financial aid, university system officials announced Wednesday. Just more than a quarter of all Cal State students who started as freshmen…

Police sought a man suspected of robbing two doughnut shops at gunpoint in Anaheim within minutes of each other on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 16. A man entered the Winchell’s Donuts at 901 S. Euclid St. at about 3:56 a.m., pulled out a silver handgun, demanded money and then fled with the cash register…

Fire crews raced to contain a fire at a commercial building in Santa Fe Springs on Wednesday evening. Tracy Gonzales, spokeswoman for the Downey Fire Department, said crews responded at about 4:35 p.m. and that 30 fire engines and trucks were on the scene in the 9600 block of John Street. Gonzalez said that there…

Work planned on the southbound 405 freeway overnight tonight, Oct. 17, and Thursday, Oct. 18, has been postponed, meaning drivers won’t face a detour. The Orange County Transportation Authority doesn’t have a new schedule yet for when the needed closure of the southbound lanes will take place. The work will remove the structure that holds…

A single panel of glass sat on the sidelines of the Aquarium of the Pacific’s high-profile construction project on Wednesday morning, Oct. 17. Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, various other community officials, designers, architects and other influential folks filed in one-by-one to watch a simple construction task performed. Glass installation doesn’t usually draw a crowd…