Новости за 15.10.2015

An L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy was killed Wednesday night after losing control of his SUV and colliding head-on with another vehicle in Santa Clarita, officials said.

A high-speed chase through the San Gabriel Valley ended in Pasadena on Thursday with a law enforcement officer repeatedly punching a man who was lying on the ground, according to TV news footage of the incident.

Last week, amid all the excitement (if that’s the right word) over Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of a right-to-die bill for California, a smaller, quieter — and rhyming — law was also passed. Assembly Bill 1448, nicknamed the “right to dry,” makes it illegal for landlords and homeowners associations...

USC could play without several experienced receivers Saturday against Notre Dame.

Michael Jackson’s life and career has already been well mined since his 2009 death. High-profile lawsuits, controversies and an avalanche of projects have revisited the King of Pop’s genius, eccentricities and scandals.

If you ever wish you could live in a simpler time when the pressures of modern life didn’t make you feel sleep-deprived, scientists have two words for you: Dream on.

Why should anything change now?

The Dodgers have been juggling their lineup all year long, so it was probably silly to think they play a win-or-go-home game and not come up with something unexpected.

That 50% chance Yasmani Grandal would start? Fifty percent is still a decent percentage. He’s in...

Donald Glover has a new "community": The South.

Glover, who is best known for his role as the nerdish student "Troy" on "Community," has been signed to star in "Atlanta," a half-hour FX series that has received a 10-episode order. Glover is creating and will be an executive producer on the series...

On Thursday, the Lakers picked up the third-year option on the contract of forward Julius Randle.

A promotional spot for a culture-bending telenovela recently aired on Spanish-language KJLA-TV channel 57.

Nathan Fielder has been wedged at the top of a Griffith Park playground slide for more than 10 minutes.

When the Dodgers take their home field Thursday in Game 5 of their National League division series, they will be playing their first winner-take-all postseason game in 27 years.

Strict federal protections couldn't save the firearms industry from an unusual defeat in court this week.

Under pressure at home and abroad, President Obama has decided to leave a large troop presence in Afghanistan past the end of his administration, abandoning his often-stated pledge to end America’s longest war before he leaves office.

Question: I am a landlord with a "no pets" policy. Recently, someone in a wheelchair came to look at an open apartment.

When Edgar Montano first moved here two years ago, his work at a carwash offered sporadic hours, dismal pay and no job security.

I'm Christina Bellantoni and hosting Essential Politics today. Away we go. Subscribe to the newsletter As grassroots armies go, campaigns probably prefer self-starters. That's certainly the case for the dedicated bunch of loyalists mounting a do-it-yourself campaign for Sen. Bernie Sanders. I have...

The 2015 award for best writing in the state Capitol goes to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signing message on the contentious "right to die" bill. No contest.

Attorney Nanette Barragan, who recently quit the Hermosa Beach City Council and moved to San Pedro to run for a House seat in next year's election, has made much of her roots in the working-class, heavily minority district she now seeks to represent.

They paint illegal murals in downtown Los Angeles. They collect email addresses they don't know where to send. They organize their own meetups, hand out political fliers in multiple languages, and register voters. In liberal precincts of California and like-minded enclaves scattered across the...

To keep a mountainous stretch of the Hollywood Hills out of the hands of real estate developers, an alliance of Laurel Canyon residents and wildlife advocates is raising money to buy it.

California's attorney general has teamed with leaders in the tech industry and law enforcement to combat so-called cyber exploitation — the practice of anonymously posting explicit photographs of others online, often to extort money from the victims.

Sybil Stockdale, who organized the wives of American prisoners during the Vietnam War and brought international attention to the torture of POWs by the North Vietnamese, has died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. She was 90.

Anton Khudobin's surname is actually first pronounced with a question, as in “who-doh-binn.”

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders toggled between the serious and the not-so-serious on a California campaign swing Wednesday, dancing a few steps to a "Saturday Night Fever" song on a TV talk show, then denouncing Republicans a while later for "racist attacks against the Mexican...