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 A South Bay man was sentenced Thursday to 212 years in federal prison for defrauding insurance companies after driving his two disabled children and ex-wife off a pier at the Port of Los Angeles to collect on accidental death policies, a scheme the judge called “evil and diabolical.”

Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched a NASA ocean- monitoring satellite into orbit Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California. Residents in parts of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties could hear a series of sonic booms following liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket.

Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched another 60 internet satellites into orbit Saturday from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Hawthorne police arrested a man suspected of setting a police car on fire in front of the station in an act caught on camera, the department announced Thursday. Officers realized an unoccupied patrol vehicle parked in front of the police department had been engulfed in flames at about 12:15 a.m. Surveillance footage taken of the incident depicts a man dousing…

Taos Air has announced that it will relaunch flights to Austin and Dallas in December, giving some Texans direct access to northern New Mexico for the ski season.

SpaceX has extended its buyout offer deadline to Boca Chica Village homeowners in South Texas and agreed to reappraise the properties after complaints that the original appraisals were too low.

Hawthorne-based SpaceX Thursday night launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral with the first batch of what could ultimately be thousands of satellites providing space-based internet service around the globe after the mission was scrubbed twice last week.

A company backed by tech billionaire Elon Musk has been awarded a nearly $49 million contract to build a transit system using self-driving vehicles underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center.

SpaceX’s sleek, new crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, acing its second milestone in just over a day. No one was aboard the Dragon capsule launched Saturday on its first test flight, only an instrumented dummy. But that quickly changed once the hatch swung open and the space station astronauts floated inside. “A new generation of...

For the first time in its history, Dallas ISD has a long-range master plan. Early in it’s process, it’s basically a draft of a proposal, but if approved it would include demolishing 47 school buildings and building 25 new ones.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Monday that he plans to blast off on the first-ever commercial trip around the moon and will invite six to eight artists, architects, designers and other creative people on the weeklong journey.

A recycled SpaceX rocket was sent back into space Friday in a spectacular launch from the California coast.

A recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried a cargo ship from the Florida coast Monday on a supply mission to the International Space Station.

A SpaceX rocket used for a previous mission was sent back into space, this time with 10 communications satellites aboard. The rocket launched Friday, March 30, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

After more than a decade of making cars and SUVs – and, more recently, solar panels – the company plans to unveil an electric semi tractor-trailer on Thursday night in Hawthorne, California.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk said Thursday he is stepping down from two presidential advisory panels in response to Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. “Am departing presidential councils,” Musk wrote on Twitter following Trump’s announcement. “Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.” Musk was followed Thursday by...