Two active-duty Marines who were driving around Redondo Beach with explosives in their truck were taken into custody Thursday night. Authorities received a report that the men were driving a white Dodge pickup truck in the area at around 8:10 p.m. and that they were in possession of explosives. more ›

Seven Marines were killed in a helicopter collision near Yuma, Arizona Wednesday night, and six of the victims were based out of San Diego County's Camp Pendleton. Two attack helicopters - an AH-1W Super Cobra and a UH-1Y Super Huey - collided in midair around 8pm during a nighttime training exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. more ›

Three Camp Pendleton Marines were killed and a fourth critically injured after their car crashed into a tree in Dana Point just after 2:00 a.m., reports City News Service. The crash happened on Golden Lantern Street. Two of the Marines died at the scene and a third died after being taken to the hospital. more ›

If you visited the TMZ homepage this morning, you would have found a story about the four Marines videotaped peeing on corpses in Afghanistan. It was positioned comfortably in a panel of stories that included the latest update on Heather Locklear's trip to the hospital and an obituary for Hulk Hogan's mustache. more ›

Occupy LA camped out overnight and continued its protest on the streets of downtown today. The local crowds protesting the bailouts of Wall Street and corporate greed marched from Pershing Square to the lawn of City Hall yesterday. more ›

Two Marine pilots died in a helicopter crash today at Camp Pendleton during a training flight. Their AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter crashed around 1pm in a training area at the base. Firefighters and rescue crews responded to the scene. more ›

An F-18 fighter jet went missing around 10:30pm on Wednesday night approximately 70 miles south of San Diego and 40 miles west of Ensenada, Mexico, reports myFOXla. The jet was flying on a mission from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar with another aircraft when the pilots lost contact. more ›

Los Angeles-based actress Mila Kunis will soon travel to Greenville, North Carolina to give some marines the best night of their life. Not like that -- get your mind out of the "Black Swan" gutter. Kunis' plans are wholesome, clean and all-American. After seeing a video that Sgt. Scott Moore of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines in Musa Qala, Afghanistan posted on YouTube asking her to the Marine Corps. Ball on November 18, Kunis has agreed to go. more ›

Marines at Camp Pendleton went through training today to understand what's required of them under the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," reports the OC Register. The training, which is being conducted worldwide and is expected to be finished by the end of the summer, includes sending the message that "It's OK to disagree with letting gays serve openly in the military. It's not OK to disobey orders," notes the Register. more ›

Four servicemen happened to be in the right place at the right time when a man attacked Long Beach police sergeant, putting him in the hospital. more ›

What can some of L.A.'s toughest neighborhoods teach us about patrolling Afghanistan and ridding streets of the Taliban? Apparently, a lot. About 70 Camp Pendleton Marines earlier this month embedded themselves with the LAPD to learn about policing, especially in building better community relations, according to the Associated Press. more ›

There are still no confirmed cases of swine flu in LA County, but over at Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, one comrade has fallen sick and 30 that were around him socially have also been quarantined just in case. The marine in question, who had not been to Mexico, is doing well and seems to be improving. Back to LA County, one student at CSULB is listed as a "probable" swine flu case, but test results will not be in until tomorrow. In Ventura County, the first two confirmed cases were announced in Oxnard. more ›

Today and yesterday, Orange County residents within 50 miles of Camp Pendleton might be feeling some shaking sensations, but they won't be an earthquake (well, unless an earthquake actually happens). “F-18s will be dropping up to 500 pounds of high explosive munitions into the Whiskey and Zulu impact areas," an advisory from the marine base says. Additionally, other units will be mortar live firing of high explosive munitions from 6 a.m. to midnight. “Depending on atmospheric conditions, the sound of the explosions may be amplified and heard up to 50 miles away.” more ›

What a man had been in procession of for some time and brought to a Huntington Beach fire station at Heil Ave. and Springdale was not something the firefighters wanted in their house. They evacuated and called the Orange County Bomb squad who in turn called Marines from Camp Pendleton who are expected to arrive at 3:00 p.m.

A man bought what he thought was a dummy mortar round from an estate sale. He planned to sell the mortar, but when he couldn't find a buyer he turned to firefighters at the Huntington Beach fire station... more ›

That's what Orange County Fire Authority Chief Chip Prather said this morning:If we had more air resources, we would have been able to control this fire. Instead we've been stuck in this initial attack mode on the ground where we hopscotch through neighborhoods as best we can trying to control things. But OCFA is not the only frustrated agency in Southern California, as losses grow to an estimated $1 billion in San Diego County... more ›

Sometimes we wonder if Bill O'Reilly isn't just trying to get on "Countdown's" Worst Person in the World. Last Friday after inviting University of Minnesota-Duluth Professor Jim Fetzer on The Factor to discuss why he believed the 9/11 tragedies were orchestrated via the White House, O'Reilly refused to let the man speak. LAist trusts this government, blindly. And we object to questioning anything this administration has been involved in, or in the case of... more ›