Новости за 02.01.2016

As lopsided as the final score was in Friday's Rose Bowl, there was a point late in the first quarter of Stanford's 45-16 victory over Iowa where it appeared the Hawkeyes might actually make a game of it.

Beverage company KeVita got its start in an Ojai kitchen.

But now, KeVita's 57,000-square-foot facility in Oxnard can turn out 160,000 bottles of its popular fermented kombucha tea and other beverages in a day. Processes such as bottle cleaning are automated, and many systems can be operated from...

Mike D'Antoni was sitting on the bench Friday night at Staples Center, the visitors' one, to be sure.

On Jan. 2, a "Mad Max" phalanx of 354 cars, trucks, motorcycles and quads will blast out of downtown Buenos Aires and begin the treacherous 8,000-kilometer (4,971 miles) Dakar Rally across the mountains and deserts of Argentina and Bolivia.

Rick Cluchey was in his third year of a life sentence without parole for the carjacking and armed robbery of a Los Angeles hotel courier when actors came to San Quentin State Prison in 1957 to perform "Waiting for Godot." The existential play struck a nerve, and inspired the creation of a drama...

You believe it now, America?

Do you finally believe this country's best college football player is the one who lost the Heisman Trophy?

Do you finally believe this country's most breathtaking college football player is the one with an ordinary build, from a brainy school, with a teenage slouch...

The 102nd Rose Bowl game was a blowout by the second quarter Friday, with Stanford well on its way to a 45-16 demolition of Iowa, when the Cardinal pulled the football equivalent of a three-card Monte on what seemed like a bunch of unsuspecting Midwest tourists.

Like millions of other consumers, Evan Hartstein was fed up with pay TV.

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Austin City Limits Hard-rocking R&B group Alabama Shakes, fronted by powerhouse singer-guitarist Brittany Howard, plays songs from their latest album, "Sound & Color." 8 p.m. KVCR, midnight KOCE

MythBusters Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman offer a sneak peek at the show's upcoming final...

A new state labor board ruling casts doubt on San Diego's aggressive pension cutbacks and orders the city to spend millions creating retroactive pensions for roughly 2,000 employees hired since those cutbacks took effect.

A carjacking suspect led police on a wild chase Friday that ended when he crashed in a Long Beach neighborhood, burst into a nearby home and shot two people and stabbed another before turning his handgun on himself, authorities said.

One measure of Natalie Cole's artistry was her way with a duet. She seemed to revel in the intimacy of vocal collaboration, exuding an effervescence that could levitate the standards. She could carry a song, of course, as evidenced by her famously convincing argument on the power of "Everlasting...

The Clippers are all aware this hot streak they're on comes with asterisks.

Uber issued plenty of advance warnings before New Year's Eve, but that didn't stop passengers from complaining about the ride-hailing app's surge pricing -- which sent fares skyrocketing in hot spots around the world.

It's been a rough week for fans of legendary heavy metal groups with umlauts in their names. On Dec. 28, Lemmy Kilmister, beloved, hard-living frontman of Mötorhead, died at age 70. And on New Year's Eve, Mötley Crüe played its final concert at the Staples Center, capping an often notorious career that...

Trying to figure out who's going to win the Kentucky Derby at about the time all 2-year-olds become 3-year-olds is like trying to predict how next season's Lakers will do in the post-Kobe era.

Donald Trump, who has been the talk of American politics for months, made an appearance of sorts at the Rose Parade.

Milan Lucic wasn't around for the Kings' bitter end in April, the struggles on the road, in overtimes and in shootouts.

They shamed almonds, looked askance at genetic modification and antibiotics, and demanded to know more about what they ate. Those actions by U.S. food consumers may have made 2015 the year of the foodie, whose opinions and choices drove companies and policymakers to change the way food is grown...

The Foster Farms Bowl was hardly finger-lickin' good; more like "the sky is falling" for the chicken little Bruins. I now know the answer to which came first. UCLA laid the egg.

Another toughman competition, another crack at the title.

For rugged champion Robbie Lawler and contender Carlos Condit, their Saturday welterweight title fight headlining UFC 195 at the MGM Grand marks the collision of familiarity and the unknown.

Can Lawler, the 33-year-old champion who's endured...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame will follow the well-worn path of autocrats by seeking a third term in office next year, after changes to the country's constitutional limit that had allowed only two terms.

U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. says too much time and money are wasted trying to resolve lawsuits in this country, and he urged federal judges to stop the "gamesmanship and procedural posturing" by lawyers that drag out litigation. "A well-timed scowl from a trial judge can go a long way...

When singer Natalie Cole, who died New Year's Eve at the age of 65, burst on the scene 40 years ago, she made the rounds of talk shows, including "The Merv Griffin Show," "Dinah!" and "The Mike Douglas Show" as well as such musical/variety series as "The Carol Burnett Show." She also popped up...

Kobe Bryant will not play tonight against the Philadelphia 76ers because of a sore right shoulder, the Lakers said.