Новости за 12.03.2016

A fast-moving storm pushed through Southern California on Friday afternoon, causing brief but heavy downpours and a tornado warning.

Julio Urias' biggest mistake may have been that he exhaled.

The 19-year-old Dodgers left-hander lived up to billing as one of baseball's top pitching prospects in his first spring inning Friday, striking out the side — Geovany Soto, Gregorio Petit and Todd Cunningham of the Angels — with a fastball...

A Southern California commuter train caught fire just after pulling into a station in Pomona on Friday, officials said.

Former Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon, who saw his convictions for perjury and voter fraud thrown out two months ago, has another curveball in store for the San Fernando Valley: He's running for Congress. Alarcon, 62, filed paperwork Friday to challenge U.S. Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-Los...

A consumer advocates group filed a complaint Friday with the state’s ethics agency seeking an investigation into whether a top aide to Gov. Jerry Brown influenced appointments to the state Public Utilities Commission while she owned stock in Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which was seeking utility-friendly...

Jered Weaver slowly leaned over at his locker Friday morning. He was asked how he felt.

As it plunged toward bankruptcy in 2009, General Motors Co. was slammed for its reluctance to change.Now, with the auto industry speeding toward a point where cars drive themselves, the automaker is trying to get ahead of the curve.On Friday, GM said it acquired Cruise Automation, a 40-person software...

When California lawmakers voted last week to raise the smoking age from 18 to 21, the debate featured optimistic rhetoric that fines and bans would sharply reduce the number of young adults buying or using tobacco.This seemingly common-sense approach, however, doesn't work. There is virtually no...

Novak Djokovic covered the walkways of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden the same way he covers the court, taking long strides but still agile enough to change directions and swerve around a cleaning cart, in this case, instead of lunging to return a crazily bouncing kick serve.

In a service filled with stories and humor, mourners joined Friday to memorialize Nancy Reagan, recalling an influential former first lady who was stylish, tough, tender, her husband’s fiercest protector.

The romantic dramedy that presents a fantasy world where everyone’s gorgeous, affluent, lives in mansions, but is unfulfilled in love isn’t anything new. (See: all of Nancy Meyers’ work.)

About 180 bodies are in storage at the Los Angeles County morgue because of delays in processing, Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner Mark Fajardo said in an interview Friday.

Darryl Sutter chose part of the third period Saturday against the Ducks to fall back on a tactic he occasionally uses, just to keep things interesting.

Bankrupt newspaper publisher Freedom Communications confirmed Friday that a group of inside investors, including developer Mike Harrah, has submitted a bid for the company's assets.

Mike Myers has taken the Great White North to heart. The Canadian actor, 52, showed up at the White House with white hair Thursday evening for a state dinner in honor of his home country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and First Lady Sophie Trudeau. But why, Mike? Whyyyy? "For fun," his rep told...

The long-running corruption scandal that has gripped — and perplexed — Brazilians for months reached a new level this week as state prosecutors filed for the "preventive arrest" of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on money-laundering and criminal misrepresentation charges.

It's that time of year again when fans and industry insiders descend on Austin, Texas, for the annual South by Southwest festival. The 10-day event will offer buzzy movies -- including Richard Linklater's "Everybody Wants Some," Seth Rogen's animated "Sausage Party" and the documentary "Tony Robbins:...