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After a five-decade hiatus, passenger rail service will return to Los Angeles'  traffic-choked Westside in May. 

“Why are all these people so mad?” It’s a simple question, a child’s question, asked, in fact, by a child in the opening minutes of Wednesday night’s episode of ABC's “black-ish,” a powerful yet never preachy exploration of police brutality against black Americans.

Yasiel Puig missed Thursday's first full-squad workout as he recovered from oral surgery to remove wisdom teeth.

Unbeaten heavyweight Oscar Rivas was not cleared Thursday at a state-mandated eye exam, and his Saturday night bout at Honda Center against former USC football player Gerald Washington is canceled, officials said.

Four months after the Dodgers' Chase Utley triggered a national debate on takeout slides at second base, Major League Baseball has explicitly outlawed the kind of slide that Utley used.

In spring 1985, Jack Smith wrote a column for this newspaper with the following headline: "Can Downtown L.A. Survive Its Own Heady Prosperity?"

After starting the summer strong, Californians’ water-saving efforts have lagged so much in recent months that the state is now in danger of failing to meet Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandate for a 25% cut in urban water use.

For nearly two years, Conor McGregor pursued the singular focus of a featherweight belt he won in December with a 13-second knockout of Jose Aldo.

Abstracted grids of blocky color. Rare photography by Japanese Americans. And a show that is all about the labor of drawing. Plus, everything Marcel Duchamp, a Long Beach museum turns 20 and a crew of artists take over a phone line and get zodiacal. Here are seven shows to see this week:

Arm-twisting is rarely required to gather a group of musicians to celebrate the music of a Beatle. That was certainly the case in 2014 when Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, Norah Jones, Heart’s Ann Wilson, the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, Perry Farrell, Brandon Flowers of the Killers, "Weird...

Baseball just abolished two of its time-honored traditions. No longer can a manager shuffle slowly to the mound, and no longer can a manager hold an extended conversation there to buy time for a relief pitcher to warm up.

In terms of drug investigations, this one wasn’t hard for Riverside police to piece together.

Known in French as beurre noisette, browned butter can add complexity and richness to both sweet and savory recipes. Drizzle it over sauteed vegetables or fish, or fold it into cake-batter fudge. Its rich nuttiness does wonders for mashed potatoes, and it's the perfect finishing touch for sauces....

A fire crew inmate suffered major injuries Thursday morning while battling a brush fire in Malibu.

And the Oscar for best location goes to …

There is, alas, no Academy Award for the category that creates a movie’s cinematic canvas — at least, not yet.

But this year’s crop of nominated films showcases some spectacular, far-flung and exotic locales. From the old-world charm of Copenhagen (“The...

Here are five things we learned from the Clippers' 87-81 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday at Staples Center.

With all the attention bestowed on diversity in Hollywood in recent years, minorities must be making big gains in film and TV, right?

Ashley Benson of “Pretty Little Liars” fame has put her remodeled home in Hollywood Hills West on the market for $2.995 million.

Antelope Canyon, in Arizona's Navajo territory just south of the Utah border, is slot canyon country. Adventurers and photographers hire Navajo guides to climb with them into these undulating crevices of red rock, sculpted by wind and water over centuries.

Visitors to the Strip can enjoy a new kind of people watching starting in March.

Ask someone heading to New York where they plan to eat, and chances are, one of the Momofuku restaurants is on the agenda, along with a stop at Milk Bar for some crack pie.

Maybe you want to be lulled by classical music or rock out to "Mamma Mia" on your next Mediterranean cruise. Now you can by selecting music that matches your mood with sailings from the French cruise line Ponant.

New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul is suing ESPN and reporter Adam Schefter for tweeting a photo of his medical records as proof the two-time Pro Bowler had a finger amputated last summer.

"We have to make this year bigger and better than ever." That was Declan Donnelly, half of the comedy duo Ant & Dec, laying out his goal at the top of this year's Brit Awards, which went down Wednesday night at the O2 Arena in London. So did the show, basically England's version of the Grammy Awards,...

Another win, a different way for the Ducks.

After an offensive explosion in each of their previous four games, they worked out a 1-0 win against Buffalo behind Frederik Andersen’s first shutout this season and Sami Vatanen’s goal.

Among their many second-half superlatives, the Ducks own the NHL’s...