Новости за 04.11.2015

Fellow cooks, In perennially sunny Southern California, it would seem the seasons aren't marked so much by changes in the weather and layers of clothing as by rotating holiday displays at the stores and flavored lattes at the local big-chain coffeehouse. Thankfully, we can also chart our seasons...

The Lakers will win a game this season, most likely.

There's a lot of time between now and April 13, so something good presumably will happen to the franchise that used to blow off October and part of November as long as everything looked good in late April, May and June.

Now the main thing the...

Proposition F, the contentious San Francisco ballot measure that would impose tighter restrictions on short-term housing rental services such as Airbnb, lost by a sizable margin Tuesday night.

The Kings had every excuse to fold Tuesday, playing the second game in two nights on the road, facing the big, physical St. Louis Blues, and playing most of the game without one of their acknowledged leaders, Anze Kopitar.

Dodgers utilityman Enrique Hernandez is scheduled to undergo a right-shoulder operation Wednesday. The procedure was described as “minor” by the team, which said more details will be provided after the surgery is completed.Acquired last winter as part of a trade that sent eventual NL batting champion...

The Lakers woes continued on Tuesday night, as the team lost its fourth-straight game to start the season, falling 120-109 to a short-handed Denver Nuggets squad.

Taiwan’s leading opposition party on Wednesday sharply criticized plans for President Ma Ying-jeou to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping this weekend, calling the encounter an attempt to manipulate upcoming elections on the island.

California health officials Tuesday warned people to avoid eating Dungeness and Rock crabs that contain dangerous levels of a neurotoxin linked to a massive algae bloom off the West Coast. High levels of domoic acid were found in crabs from the Oregon border to the southern Santa Barbara County...

Local and federal officials have called for inquiries into the finances and tax-exempt status of the Los Angeles County Fair Assn., responding to a Times investigation that found the nonprofit organization has lost millions of dollars while richly compensating its top executives and straying far...

A new Metta World Peace order has been achieved. At least, that's what the Lakers forward promises.

The California high-speed rail authority bowed to pressure from California legislators and members of Congress late Tuesday and released a copy of a 2013 report showing a large estimated increase in the cost of building the initial segment of the bullet train project.

The biggest problem for the Dodgers is not analytics, but attitude. They have enough brilliant baseball minds; they need a tough baseball soul.

The Kings’ season took a potentially worrisome turn Tuesday when center Anze Kopitar, who has led them in scoring each of the last eight seasons, suffered an upper-body injury during the first period of their game at St. Louis.

A beleaguered Volkswagen employed deep discounts just to maintain flat sales in October — while the industry boomed, with a double-digit surge over last year.In the first full month since it admitted cheating on U.S. emissions tests for diesel cars, the automaker might have done worse. It has typically...

Separated by just 100 miles of sea, but a chasm of war, history and politics, the leaders of mainland China and Taiwan have never met face-to-face since the two sides split in 1949 after a long and bitter civil war.

The Pentagon has suspended indefinitely a trial run of the troubled missile defense system called JLENS, whose giant, radar-carrying blimps were intended to help safeguard the skies over Washington.

Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf emerged from the trainer's room with a freshly shaved head for the team's annual fan fest. Unfortunately for Ducks fans, he won't be putting a helmet on it for the next game.

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The Mysteries of Laura While investigating a case linked to a global smuggling operation Laura (Debra Messing) and the team find a pregnant woman's body and discover she had been used for smuggling in this new episode. 8 p.m. NBC

Arrow In a rare case of a character surviving cancellation...

Ohio voters soundly rejected a marijuana initiative Tuesday that would have legalized recreational and medicinal use of the drug, and would have limited commercial growing to a small group of investors who drafted and promoted the measure.

The drama of Duke-Miami, Minnesota-Michigan and Stanford-Washington State managed to spin our heads without disrupting our ranking order. A few teams had the weekend off as No. 6 Stanford, No. 9 Notre Dame and No. 10 Utah survived closer-than-expected encounters. The top three spots are vulnerable...

Denis Gitschier remembers almost everything about the night a Long Beach police officer saved his life in 1975.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, firefighters and members of several other employee groups will get a 10% pay increase over three years under contracts approved Tuesday by county supervisors.

Seven passengers were booted from a Spirit Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday night, and one of them says they were discriminated against because they were black.

Lindsey Vonn has declared herself fully recovered from yet another injury and eager to resume racing later this month.

Takata Corp. was fined $70 million Tuesday failing to notify authorities of faulty airbags in at least 19 million U.S. vehicles, resulting in recalls that could last four years.