With architect Frank Gehry now involved in remaking the Los Angeles River, it's hard to imagine that there once was a push to place a freeway along the waterway's path. In the late 1980s and early '90s, the battle over the freeway idea gave voice to a movement to restore the concrete-lined river...
When Carly Rae Jepsen moved to Southern California in 2012, not long after Justin Bieber helped launch her song "Call Me Maybe" toward becoming one of that year's biggest pop hits, the Canadian singer first touched down in family-friendly Woodland Hills. Jepsen was dating a guy who lived there...
Andreas Deja is a famed Disney animator who during his multiple decades at the Burbank studio brought a reserved humanity to young Lilo in "Lilo & Stitch," a ghostly menace to the composed malevolence of Jafar in "Aladdin" and a frightening fancifulness to the tortuous Scar in "The Lion King."
Students here don't do fire safety drills, they do escaped-prisoner training - closing blinds, hiding in a corner or closet.
Anat R. Admati, a professor of finance and economics at Stanford's business school, is an unlikely player in Washington's financial reform scene.
Shari Springer Berman was walking down a street here one sweltering summer night in 1988 when a sight took her aback: Out of nowhere, a passerby was being clubbed by a policeman.
This summer's deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the South Bronx was described by one politician here as an "unfortunate perfect storm" - invisible clouds of contaminated mist from commercial cooling towers swirling down into one of this city's poorest areas, whose population already struggles...
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River spill: In the Aug. 12 Section A, an article about the contamination of Colorado's Animas River referred to Jared Blumenfeld as an Environmental Protection Agency spokesman. He is the EPA's administrator for the Pacific Southwest Region.
Mike Scioscia has had his issues with baseball's instant-replay system, but Chicago White Sox closer David Robertson took issue with the Angels manager's handling of a replay situation Wednesday night, going so far as to call Scioscia "bush league" for arguing a call that had already been reviewed.
Only three National League pitchers have struck out 200 batters or more in six consecutive seasons in baseball's modern era.
The Angels will open a big four-game series against the defending American League-champion Kansas City Royals on Thursday night with the momentum of a Galapagos tortoise.
USC is going to the movies.
Third baseman Justin Turner, who has spent the last two-plus weeks recovering from a MRSA infection, is expected to return from the disabled list in the next day or two.
Narbonne held its annual green-gold scrimmage on Wednesday night. The gold team came onto the field and ran through the green team warming up. That amused everyone. But in a sign of how much depth and talent the Gauchos have, the game was close throughout. The gold prevailed, 20-14.
A drone nearly collided Wednesday with a medical helicopter that was taking a snake-bite victim to a Fresno hospital, authorities said.
Defensive lineman Antwaun Woods is breathing a bit easier in his final training camp at USC and it isn't just because the fifth-year senior knows the routine.
This is when you know a pitcher has reached the peak of his profession: Clayton Kershaw has another brilliant outing Wednesday and what people will talk about is that he did not throw a perfect game or no-hitter.
Two people were arrested after a laser was pointed at a Los Angeles County sheriff's helicopter during a training exercise, authorities said Wednesday.
When 28 pounds of heroin made it across the U.S.-Mexico border near Calexico in April, it didn't come by the usual methods of car, truck or tunnel. It came by drone, federal authorities said Wednesday, making it the first cross-border seizure by U.S. law enforcement involving the new smuggle-by-air...
In another sign that El Niño is gaining strength and could soak California this winter, sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean have increased to their highest level so far this year.
One prisoner was killed and others injured Wednesday when inmates at a maximum-security prison outside of Folsom rioted on Wednesday, state corrections officials said.
U.S. Olympic Committee officials say they are "very, very optimistic" about reaching a deal to make Los Angeles the American bidder for the 2024 Summer Games.
Firing a police officer is no easy task, and when a law enforcement agent faces the loss of his or her job, the process is rarely quick. But on Tuesday night, Arlington, Texas Police Chief Will Johnson dismissed rookie Officer Brad Miller just four days after he shot and killed Christian Taylor,...
Ohio will vote on a constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana in November, state officials announced Wednesday.