The U.S. has been placed in a four-team group that will include Trinidad and Tobago and the winners of two summer playoff series in the semifinal round of regional World Cup qualifying in November.
A fire at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas burned trees and cabanas on a pool deck on Saturday, sending plumes of thick black smoke up the side of the skyscraper.
Tough business, baseball. Yesterday's hero is today's option back to the minors.
Of course they would. They're in the business of winning. They'd trade Stan Kasten's first born if they thought they were getting enough back in return.
Art museum dealings
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has ruled out fighting England's Amir Khan next, and it's now looking like his Sept. 12 bout will be televised on Showtime pay-per-view, not CBS.
The new family-friendly Adam Sandler alien invasion comedy "Pixels" topped the box office on Friday, coming out ahead of other newcomers "Paper Towns" and "Southpaw." Directed by Chris Columbus, "Pixels" materialized an estimated $9.2 million at the box office and earned a B grade from audiences...
Seventy-eight high school football teams in the City Section begin official practice on Monday. They have a week for conditioning two hours a day.
Last week I told the story of an unemployed woman, barely surviving, who walked into a pet shop and overheard another customer say she gets $50 massages for her pooch.
Ducktails, "Heaven's Room" (Domino). Guitarist Matt Mondanile is perhaps best known for his work with New Jersey guitar pop band Real Estate, but his solo project Ducktails has generated equally sublime tracks across four albums. The fifth, "St. Catherine," is filled with many languid, jangled...
In recent weeks, political leaders and church figures in Kenya made it clear they did not want to entertain any discussion of gay rights during President Obama's visit to the African country.
"Listen to me, Marlon... This is one part of yourself speaking to another part of yourself. Listen to the sound of my voice and trust me. You know I have your interests at heart."
The American Cinematheque and the Art Directors Guild's Film Society celebrate the career of Oscar-nominated production designer James Bissell on Sunday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Among the films Bissell designed are 1982's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," 2005's "Good Night, and Good Luck"...
It was a brief moment of tension in an otherwise exuberant visit by President Obama to Kenya, but it exposed the gulf between the American president and his father's homeland.
Whether clearly earned - and it has been - or borne of desperation, all Zach Lee needs to know is his first opportunity at pitching in the majors has finally arrived.
To Omar Medina, a security officer working the graveyard shift, attending Northwestern California University School of Law seemed like the ideal way to fulfill his dream of becoming a lawyer.
More than 60,000 people are expected to turn out Saturday for the opening ceremony of the 2015 Special Olympics World Games at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
The Des Moines Register says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has denied press credentials to its reporters after the newspaper published an editorial calling on the billionaire businessman to end his campaign.
Salt needs pepper. Romeo needs Juliet. And your epic nature trip to Crater Lake might need a cultural detour.
Planes, trains and automobiles - and buses and bikes and even good old walking.
The smell of raw fish wafts through the corridors of the San Pedro Fish Market as Tommy Amalfitano orders a line cook to pull a fish off the grill.
Moviegoer Melissa Holt took in a screening of the animated film "Minions" at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood on Friday with little worry about her safety.
The hottest segment in the U.S. auto market is getting hotter with the addition of new subcompact SUV offerings from Honda and Mazda.
In response to an increase in coyote sightings and attacks on pets and children, a newly developed Irvine neighborhood has launched a program to help residents coexist with the animals that come down from nearby hills in search of food.