Thirty years ago — before coffee chains dotted South Bay streets — Rick Hankus took a chance and decided to open Java Man in a decades-old beach cottage in Hermosa Beach. Hankus and his staff at the ...

JAKARTA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Indonesia has asked former colonial ruler the Netherlands to return eight historical artefacts from its museums, including bones of the Java Man, the first known fossils of ...

Rick Hankus, owner of Hermosa Beach’s Java Man coffee shop, who was known as a “humble hero,” “legend” and the “kindest person” who gave back to the South Bay community and beyond, died last month. He ...

A Java man was charged with assault with intent to injure a state trooper after being arrested in connection with a burglary investigation on Friday, state police said Sunday.

WARSAW -- A Java man charged with stalking and threatening his neighbors and felony contempt of court pleaded guilty last week to a less serious charge of second-degree harassment, a violation.

The two most ancient fossil humans known are Sinanthropus pekinensis, the old man of China, and Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape man of Java. Their ages have been variously put at 400,000 to 1,000,000 ...