HBO puts a new TV 'Hero' in the house
David Simon, who created the HBO series "The Wire" and "Treme," is back with a magnificent new miniseries, "Show Me a Hero," which premieres Sunday on HBO.
David Simon, who created the HBO series "The Wire" and "Treme," is back with a magnificent new miniseries, "Show Me a Hero," which premieres Sunday on HBO.
I can't blame Patrice Fisher for feeling she's had enough of the Watts riots commemorations that seemed to be everywhere this week.
Good morning. It is Saturday, Aug. 15. Here's what you don't want to miss this weekend: Subscribe to the newsletter Top stories New city: N.W.A made Compton famous, but it also made the city synonymous with violence and gang crimes. That history is being revisited in the new film "Straight Outta...
As a former college president, Roger H. Martin became accustomed to the worries and demands of his students' parents. He has taken phone calls from those who want him to find new roommates for their children, fix the heating in dorm rooms and help their offspring find better paying jobs long after...
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Los Angeles is in the middle of yet another heat wave, which makes it a great time to head to places with excellent air conditioning - movie theatres, Trader Joe's, and restaurants and bars. One suggestion: Akasha Richmond's newish Indian restaurant in Culver City, which is the subject of Jonathan...
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Alex Wood didn't remind anyone of Clayton Kershaw on Friday night, but he didn't have to.
Three California Highway Patrol officers, a Modesto criminal defense attorney and five others have been arrested in connection with the 2012 killing of Korey Kauffman, a 26-year-old Turlock resident whose body was found more than a year later by hunters in a remote Mariposa County forest.
Bryce Dixon hasn't given up his fight to return to USC's football team.
Climbing temperatures and burgeoning wildfires - including two stubborn blazes that erupted Friday in the Los Angeles area - marked the start of what could be a troubling weekend for much of California, authorities said.
Progress, you take it where you find it. In giant torrents of improvement, or nice steady trickles.
The cashier at the Baldwin Hills pharmacy was ringing up a can of soda when the customer slid a note across the counter.
The Rock is getting his own Disney fairy tale, Pixar is getting its first Latino protagonist and "Toy Story 4" and "Finding Dory" are getting off the ground.
A day after he sat on the Dodgers' bench because of a sore left shoulder, catcher Yasmani Grandal returned to the starting lineup.
Paul Goldenberg's business model was dazzlingly simple. He had one store and sold two brands of big-screen TVs. He kept prices low, offered same-day delivery and preached that the customer was always right.
Four Democratic White House hopefuls fired up their party's base at a raucous gathering in Iowa on Friday, launching blistering attacks on the sprawling GOP field and, among some lesser-known candidates, taking indirect swipes at front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.
On an overcast May morning, city workers picked up abandoned tires, charred furniture and soiled clothes from an alley in South Los Angeles.
Residents in Northeast, Central and South Los Angeles received worse service for illegal dumping pickup than other parts of the city. In some neighborhoods, such as Highland Park and Boyle Heights, less than half of illegal dumping requests were fulfilled. Read the full report: Many poorer areas...
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An estimated 150,000 DirecTV customers in the San Diego region have lost access to the highly rated CBS-affiliate television station KFMB-TV Channel 8.
A brush fire broke out in the Angeles National Forest on Friday afternoon, scorching more than 100 acres north of Glendora, officials said.
In one video after another this year, we've seen police stops of African-American drivers go violently, terribly wrong. Think of Walter Scott, killed by a police officer in North Charleston, S.C., after a traffic stop for a broken tail light. Or Sandra Bland, pulled over for failure to signal a...
Haggen Inc., the grocery chain that has struggled since rapidly expanding this year, is closing 27 stores, including 16 supermarkets in California.
Two young people were killed early Friday after a limb from an oak tree limb fell on their tent as they slept at a popular campground in Yosemite National Park.