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Capt. Charlene Downey and Capt. Monica Rochester hug following their change of command ceremony held at Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach in San Pedro, California, June 22, 2018.
The LT Cortesia container ship is unloaded at the Evergreen terminal of the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California, on April 8, 2014. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Patrick T. Fallon.
Security concerns at the nation's ports, heightened by a security breach and a cyberattack this year at the Port of Los Angeles, will be the focus of a hearing by a congressional committee Monday in San Pedro. Members of the House Committee on Homeland Security will take testimony from officials of the L.A. and Long Beach ports, the Trump administration and longshore union starting at 1:30 p.m. at the Port of L.A. Harbor Administration Building.
The county Board of Supervisors, prodded by increasing political and regulatory efforts to protect public health and safety, endorsed efforts Wednesday to ban highly toxic hydrofluoric acid from the two South Bay refineries that use the chemical. That has prompted the South Coast Air Quality Management District to propose banning the chemical by year's end .
A friendly boxing match followed by dinner and a movie. For a bunch of young sailors stuck on a ship, it made for a typical laid-back, easygoing Saturday.
San Pedro resident Sue McLeavy reflects at her father Korean War veteran Eldon Northrup's graveside, before she and her family attended the 31st annual “Green Hills Memorial Park Memorial Day Observance, " at Green Hills Memorial Park. Eldon who died in 2011, attended most of the observance's.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. salutes at a campaign rally at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro district of Los Angeles, Friday, May 27, 2016.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. salutes at a campaign rally at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro district of Los Angeles, Friday, May 27, 2016.
The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign blitz through Southern California stopped at the docks in San Pedro Friday - a part of the Vermont senator's ambitious plan to reach 200,000 voters before the state's June 7 primary. The 30-minute speech before a crowd of about 1,000 mostly union dock workers - members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13 - rarely mentioned his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton, but he did take repeated shots at corporate America, Wall Street and the Republican's prsumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
Running against a politician with the last name Hahn might intimidate most, but for Steve Napolitano, the challenge is undoubtedly worthwhile. "Nobody knows the Fourth District better than me and I have a record of achievement," said Napolitano.