Новости за 02.12.2015

Prepare yourself for the ultimate Black Friday, pledges. A holiday dedicated to needless shopping and lording wealth over others -- talk about the Chanels' paradise. However, with a serial killer on the loose, their Black Friday plans take a dark turn.

Clive, we hardly knew you.

Seriously, Det. Babineaux, we’ve had so little information about your life outside the Seattle Police Department squad room, your background, your turn ons ... though we did find out recently that you’d rather be beaten to a pulp than sit through a magic show. (Ditto...

Private-sector employers accelerated their hiring last month, adding 217,000 net new jobs in the best performance since June, payroll firm Automatic Data Processing Inc. said Wednesday.

The Lakers (2-15) play their fourth game in five nights, visiting the Washington Wizards (7-8) on Wednesday night.

Sometimes it takes a grande dame to play a grande dame.

For months Marie-Christine Barrault has traveled France playing the noted writer and intellectual Marguerite Yourcenar, the author of the acclaimed 1951 novel "Memoirs of Hadrian" and the first woman to be elected to the Académie française,...

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan band of lawmakers on the verge of advancing a top business priority saved a ceremonial honor for one of the effort's surprising leaders: Rep. Maxine Waters.

When Kobe Bryant retires at the end of this season, his career earnings from the Lakers will total $328,238,062. That figure is sure to elicit all the usual snark about how professional athletes are overpaid, all the more so because Kobe is earning $25 million this season while performing terribly....

Shopping choices abound this season in Southern California, with new stores opening, retailers hosting charitable fundraisers, craft markets popping up and more.

One of the girders buttressing the American criminal justice system is the right of people charged with crimes to have an attorney and to have that lawyer on hand when questioned by investigators and prosecutors. Within that framework, courts have held that investigators can't plant jailhouse informants...

More than 50 women have now accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault and, in some cases, rape. In the lurid tales they've recounted in recent years, many of the women have said they were plied by the comedian with knockout pills, only to wake up hours later, naked and violated.

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today. Subscribe to the newsletter TOP STORIES Now We Know Who Funded That Campaign Who contributed nearly $2.3 million in the May election for the L.A. Board of Education? Some prominent charter...

If the United Nations' climate change conferences — like the one going on in Paris now — were a person, that person would now be old enough to drink. For 21 years, the world has met, conferred and come away knowing it has to do better. That's about half the time Veerabhadran Ramanathan has been...

USC linebacker Cameron Smith was voted Pac-12 Conference freshman defensive player of the year by league coaches.

Good morning. It is Wednesday, Dec. 2. Did you miss breakfast? A new service will deliver Dunkin' Donuts straight to your door in Los Angeles. Nothing better than hot coffee and a chocolate doughnut with sprinkles, of course. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State: Subscribe to the newsletter...

World leaders took to the stage at the climate change conference in Paris this week and declared that the future of the planet was at stake. They delivered speeches warning about the dire consequences of inaction and called on the world to unite in tackling greenhouse gas emissions.

Newhall Ranch: In the Dec. 1 Section A, an article about the Newhall Ranch development referred imprecisely to a planned project in Tejon Ranch. While the ranch straddles the Los Angeles-Kern county line, the planned development is in Los Angeles County.

Every time the Kings have needed something more from Drew Doughty — minutes, offense, leadership — the gifted defenseman has delivered. Needing a power-play goal Tuesday to pull even with the Vancouver Canucks, the Kings again turned to Doughty and got what they wanted — a game-tying goal that...

The latest big surprise of the Lakers' season, other than their calamitous record and Kobe Bryant's retirement announcement, came in the form of pregame introductions against the Philadelphia 76ers.

Kobe Bryant would consider returning to the Lakers, he said Tuesday.

No, he's not unretiring. It would be in a non-playing capacity.

"Me and the Buss family, we grew up together," Bryant said, mentioning the Lakers' owners. "Jeanie and Jimmy, they've known me since I was a kid. It would be an honor...

It was broadcast on a cable network that half of Los Angeles can't watch. There were questions about a star pitcher who could be skipping town. There was talk of a troubled outfielder allegedly involved in a barroom scuffle.

The final regular-season College Football Playoff ranking confirmed one thing: that most of the drama about this season's playoff field has already been drained.

The United Nations Conference on Climate Change, with 150 world leaders gathering near Paris, has an ambitious goal: to limit rising global temperatures this century to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. In the first days of the conference , President Obama pushed for a...

You never know what Magic Johnson is going to say.

But you always know he wants the Lakers to win. Badly.

The minority owner of the Dodgers criticized one of the Lakers' owners Tuesday, and it wasn't the first time.

"I'm going to say it again: I love Jim Buss. He should just be the owner, like...

GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

Regional championships, Tuesday

Division I: Redondo d. Trabuco Hills, 25-12, 25-19, 25-16

Division II: Village Christian d. San Diego Canyon Crest, 25-16, 20-25, 21-25, 25-21, 16-14

Division III: Chula Vista Olympian d. Valley View, 17-25, 26-24, 25-22,...

Two games into the basketball season, South Gate is estabilishing itself as the favorite to win City Section Division II behind sophomore David Mixon.