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Palestinian stabbing attacks on Israelis continued Saturday, with at least four assailants shot dead during five separate incidents, according to Israeli military and police officials.

Lamar Odom was making steady improvement and “doing good” Saturday, days after he was rushed by ambulance to a Las Vegas hospital from a brothel, said a person close to the former Laker and Clipper who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

After the Clippers landed in Los Angeles on Wednesday night to conclude an exhausting whirlwind trip to China, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan turned around and got on another plane that evening. They flew to Las Vegas to visit Lamar Odom.

“Goosebumps” goes bump in the night — and at the box office.

The film adaptation of R.L. Stine’s beloved series of frightful children’s novellas led the Friday box office after taking in an estimated $7.4 million, according to Box Office Mojo.

If tracking estimates prove true, “Goosebumps” is headed...

A nearly eight-mile section of Highway 58 east of Tehachapi remained closed Saturday as crews worked to clear debris and remove stranded vehicles after a storm turned the roadway into a river of mud this week, officials said.

Stopped at a red light in El Sereno, Julio Reyes-Salvador was oblivious to the cars hurtling toward him.

Helena Hauff, "Discreet Desires" (Werkdiscs/Ninja Tune). The music of German electronic composer Helena Hauff sounds recycled from the remains of an abandoned Kraftwerk storage facility, as if the spare parts of old Roland, Moog, Nintendo, ARP and Buchla gear figured out a way to interface and...

The first off-season change to the Dodgers has arrived, and not from a completely expected area.

Taking those Hail Mary passes to heart, “Woodlawn” is a heavily Christian sports drama that almost goes the distance despite adhering closely to the inspirational movie playbook.

For more than 25 years, a kidney-shaped pool sparkled behind Paul Chen's Cerritos home.

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

— Book of Jeremiah, 8:20

With October comes a waiting season. Californians have more or less survived one more dry year — with shower buckets and brown lawns, with ever deeper wells and fallowed croplands; in short, with every trick...

Back to the Future: The Complete Adventures

Universal, $88.88; Blu-ray, $99.88

Given that 2015 is "the future" in Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's blockbuster sequel "Back to the Future Part II," there's been a lot of talk this year about what the film got right and wrong about the world of today....

Along the Southern California coast, October has presented a trifecta of hotter-than-normal weather, warm ocean water and massive weekend crowds, prompting lifeguards to call back seasonal staff to help patrol the beaches.

More than six miles of downtown Los Angeles streets will be open Sunday to bicyclists, skaters and pedestrians as part of the fifth anniversary celebration of CicLAvia called the Heart of L.A.

After I escape a two-year marriage to a French drummer, I head to Southeast Asia at age 35 — with my guitar. I clear rice fields in Laos, learn to scuba dive in Thailand, sing at bars across Malaysia and write an album of songs.

Either way, from 1938 onwards, when "American Photographs" was published and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, this was how America came to look — and what we looked for in America. Documentation doubled as creation. Not just the creation of an observed world but of the terms and criterion...

Jane Smiley is an author who doesn't shy away from ambitious literary projects. She penned "The Greenlanders," a saga about the dying Greenlandic civilization, in the epic Norse tradition. In "A Thousand Acres," she reinvented Shakespeare's King Lear in America's contemporary heartland — and won...

Readers have asked for a class that would suit older people or those recovering from an injury. This class works for those groups, and it works for everyone else too. It's water aerobics, this one at the West Hollywood Pool, part of that city's recreation program.

NEW YORK

When in Cooperstown, visitors should visit the Farmers' Museum. Its exhibit of the Cardiff Giant, known as "America's Greatest Hoax," is without comparison when it comes to the gullibility of people.

Farmers' Museum, 5775 State Highway 80, (888) 547-1500, www.lat.ms/1QlGLth

Theodore Dent

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Whether of gardens, dogs or vegetables strewn in the street, the photos in Julien Bismuth’s exhibition at the Box are all subjected to the same manipulation.

To ascend to the position of “dragon head” of one of San Francisco Chinatown’s fraternal organizations-turned-criminal enterprises, Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow arranged the assassination of his predecessor, according to a federal grand jury indictment Friday.

After months of often rancorous meetings with veterans, Westside residents, health professionals and elected officials, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday released a draft master land-use plan for the agency’s long-neglected West Los Angeles campus.

Corporations, a private school and nonprofit groups are among those that, over the years, have leased space from the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus. As part of the master plan now being developed, many of these uses are being reconsidered. UCLA and Brentwood School are among those lobbying...

Palestinians set fire to a West Bank shrine holy to Jews, drawing sharp condemnation Friday not only from Israel but from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been heavily criticized for failing to denounce a recent spate of stabbing attacks by Palestinians against Israelis.