Новости за 08.10.2015

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill (AB) 949 on Wednesday that will classify cheerleading as a competitive CIF sport beginning in 2017-18.

FBI agents on Wednesday dug up the Fontana backyard of an armored-truck driver convicted of pulling off a $1-million theft, and recovered about $600,000.

Warner Bros.' "Pan" is not expected to soar at the box office this weekend.

The governor has vetoed eight bills, including one that would have required cities and counties to hold a public meeting prior to the acquisition of surplus military hardware.

Kevin Corcoran, the former child actor known to generations of Disney fans as "Moochie" from "The Mickey Mouse Club," as well as for his roles in such hits as "Old Yeller" and "Pollyanna," died Tuesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. He was 66.

Randy Quaid has been arrested again, this time in Canada, where he and his wife, Evi Quaid, have been living since fleeing the U.S. in 2010 to escape what they described as "Hollywood star whackers."

So Corey Seager-Jimmy Rollins at shortstop and Enrique Hernandez-Joc Pederson in center aren’t the only starting position questions facing the Dodgers this postseason.

"Purity" book review: In the Aug. 30 Arts & Books section, a book review of Jonathan Franzen's "Purity" quoted a passage from the novel as saying, "Only love, only long empathy and identification and compassion, can root another person in your heart so deeply there's no escaping your hatred of...

With Peet's Coffee announcing that it will purchase Stumptown Coffee Roasters, and the recent acquisition of Handsome Coffee Roasters by Blue Bottle Coffee, it's safe to say the coffee world — even the artisanal coffee world — is going corporate.

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Los Angeles County voters may be asked to approve a half-cent increase in the sales tax for transportation projects to ease traffic gridlock as a result of a measure signed Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Russian warships have fired more than 20 missiles at militants in Syria, a Russian official said Wednesday, marking an escalation in Moscow’s eight-day-old air campaign that the U.S. says is attempting to prop up Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.

USC Coach Steve Sarkisian will face his former team Thursday night when the No. 17 Trojans play the Washington Huskies in the Coliseum.

A fast-moving fire tore through a block of industrial buildings in South Los Angeles early Wednesday, destroying several businesses and putting nearby residents on edge.