Новости за 20.10.2015

Serial home renovator and actress Diane Keaton has put a Pacific Palisades house on the market at $6.995 million.

Ah, the bullpen. The Dodgers’ great Achilles’ heel. Bane of their existence.

The Lakers' first cut of the preseason was a mild surprise, with the team saying goodbye to Robert Upshaw on Tuesday and keeping Robert Sacre as their No. 3 center.

A Bakersfield police officer who allegedly tickled the feet of a man fatally shot by police in November no longer works for the department, an official said Tuesday. 

Civil rights lawyers asked the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to change rules that they say illegally and systematically knock mentally ill homeless people off the welfare rolls.

The Pentagon and Russian military have agreed on a list of rules designed to ensure the two countries' pilots will not mistakenly run into -- or fire upon -- one another as they conduct daily bombing runs in the skies above Syria.

Nobody expected Justin Trudeau to win when he entered the boxing ring three years ago to duke it out against one of Canada’s Conservative senators in a charity match. Trudeau’s competitor, Patrick “Brass Knuckles” Brazeau, had fought more matches in a month than Trudeau, a Liberal senator, had...

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Daniel Kottke knew Steve Jobs before he was Steve Jobs.

It was 1972 when Kottke met the future tech icon at Reed College in Portland, Ore. Both young men shared enthusiasm for Eastern philosophy, Bob Dylan, vegetarianism and LSD. Five years later, Kottke joined Jobs as the 12th employee at a startup...

Frank Sinatra was born 100 years ago but wasn't around to see the last 17 of them. Yet his effect on what it means to be a pop star is so great that it often feels as though the legendary singer has never left us.

House Speaker John A. Boehner has lowered expectations for reaching a sweeping budget deal with the White House, and instead is focusing on the more immediate task of averting a looming showdown over the debt ceiling.

Univision Communications' owners were hoping that by mid-October, Wall Street would be cheering the company's public stock offering that was expected to be one of the year's biggest.

I'm Christina Bellantoni, the Essential Politics host today, and it's time for the hot tub time machine. Subscribe to the newsletter As we wait on Vice President Joe Biden to make/announce/stick to a decision about a presidential bid, I've gone back through the archives. What seems like an eternity...

Courtney Love wears her ghostliness with a rock star's swagger.

When she enters the playing area that has been set up at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, where "Kansas City Choir Boy" opened Sunday, she looks as though she could vanish at will before our very eyes.

Her beauty, smudged by time, is spectral....

Imagine you see an elderly man fall on a crowded street. You want to help him up, but then reason gets the better of you: You've read reports about injured people extorting small fortunes in healthcare fees from helpful bystanders. You walk past the man, pretending that you've seen nothing.

Biologist Greg Asner first heard the numbers in April, but they did little to prepare him for what he saw.

California's high school graduation rate has improved in the last five years, moving from 74.7% in 2010 to 81% in 2013-14. According to data released Monday, California is one of 36 states that improved their graduation rates between 2012-13 and 2013-14. But California high schools still have a...

Double amputee South African athlete, Oscar Pistorius, convicted of culpable homicide for killing his girlfriend, served just under a year in prison – avoiding the worst of South Africa’s prison system, notorious for its drugs, violence, gangs and rape.

Semaj Clark was dealt a bad hand. Born to a teenage drug addict, he never knew his father. He was abused in foster care, he dropped out of high school, ran with hoodlums and built a long rap sheet that began with an arrest for burglary at age 12.

Water disputes: In the Oct. 15 Business section, an article about legal fights over water systems included a quote from a California Court of Appeal decision about monopolists being unpopular and King George III's "chokehold" on government. A subsequent court order left the judgment in the case...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti faced throngs of hostile protesters at a community meeting Monday night as chaos descended on a gathering that had been intended as a forum for him to improve his fraught relationship with the black communities of South L.A.The meeting at Holman United Methodist...

Quick query: Who is the Lakers' only true point guard?

Not Jordan Clarkson. He's a converted shooting guard.

Not D'Angelo Russell. Much more of a shooter than passer at Ohio State.

Lou Williams? Please. A shooting guard stuck in a point guard's body.

Marcelo Huertas will make the Lakers' final...

Venture capitalists spread $16.3 billion over more than 1,000 technology, media, healthcare and other companies in the U.S. from July through September, driving a seventh straight huge quarter for start-up investment.

The Force clearly wasn't with cinema owners Monday night.

Consumers seeking to buy advance tickets to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" found themselves out of luck when several theater websites crashed, apparently overwhelmed by the large volume of orders.

Fandango, a leading online ticket provider,...

Lamar Odom was released from a Las Vegas hospital Monday and was scheduled to return to Los Angeles later that night to continue his dramatic recovery process at a hospital here, The Times has confirmed.