Новости за 08.04.2016

Few things generate more ire at City Hall than the filthy state of Los Angeles' streets, where piles of litter, illegally dumped trash and furniture pose both image and health problems for the city.

Prime time is going true crime all the time.

On the heels of FX's "The People v. O.J. Simpson" comes the news that CBS is developing an unscripted series about the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.

Sources familiar with the project but not authorized to speak publicly say...

Over the past five seasons of "Game of Thrones," few characters have held as strong a misery poker hand as Sophie Turner's Sansa Stark. But all that is about to change. 

Gwyneth Paltrow has been an entertainer for years. She’s starred in dozens of popular movies, won an Oscar for her performance in “Shakespeare and Love” and delighted audiences of all ages with her performance of “Cruisin’” in the 2000 film “Duets,” a song that spent two weeks at No. 1 in Australia.

Officials announced Friday that women in California can now drop by their neighborhood pharmacy and pick up birth control pills without a prescription from a doctor. It's not technically over-the-counter, but you can get them by talking to a pharmacist and filling out a questionnaire.

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to change the name of Elysian Park Avenue to Vin Scully Avenue as a tribute to the iconic Dodgers broadcaster who plans to retire this year after 67 seasons with the baseball team. 

At Comcast Corp., there's old money — and new money.

The company's longtime chairman and chief executive, Brian Roberts, 56, collected $36.2 million in compensation in 2015, a nearly 10% increase over the previous year, according to a regulatory filing Friday.

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Meet Ron, a tall dude from Michigan who knows nothing about basketball and is a first-day employee at Blaze Pizza in Pasadena.

Star of “Blood, Sweat and Heels” Daisy Lewellyn has died after a two-year battle with a rare form of liver cancer, her former employer, Essence magazine, has reported.

Headlining this week's celebrity brawls are Nicolas Cage and Vince Neil, who got into it physically in Las Vegas on Thursday.

At least two people died in an apparent murder-suicide at Lackland Air Force Base just outside San Antonio on Friday morning, officials said.

The Justice Department said Friday it still needs Apple’s help to unlock a convicted drug dealer’s iPhone in a New York City case, despite having successfully employed a third party to access a similar device used by one of the terrorists involved in December’s San Bernardino attacks.

The life and legacy of the apostle Thomas were a shimmer of myth and fact that sent Tom Bissell across oceans and down alleys; he scribbled notes with a high fever and cried with dysentery and diarrhea in a church bathroom on a mountaintop in India.

ScoreBig, a start-up that helps consumers find cheaper tickets for concerts and sporting events, is expanding its reach and helping venues fill more seats.

The Russian sports minister said Friday that no one will face criminal charges for the doping scandal that has crippled much of the nation's sporting infrastructure.

'American Idol' finale updates: Trent Harmon wins the last title ever April 8 2016 10:10 AM "Dim the lights. … Here we go …" Ryan Seacrest has said season after season of "American Idol." And on Thursday night, the lights went dark forever as America crowned its final "Idol," Trent Harmon, who...

Like any scientist, doctors should have the ability to shun conclusions that have been proved wrong over and over again--especially cures that don't work. That reality evidently stops at the door of the California Medical Assn. For the fifth time since 2008, CMA is pushing a measure in the state...

Averting a massive faculty strike scheduled to begin next week across all 23 California State University campuses, officials and the faculty union have reached a tentative agreement of a 10.5% salary increase spread over three years.

The LA 2024 bid committee has launched a series of town hall meetings with Olympic and Paralympic athletes nationwide.

The forthcoming Bob Dylan album announced recently turns out to be another collection in which Dylan interprets a dozen pop standards of the pre-rock era, the majority of them associated with Frank Sinatra. "Fallen Angels," his 37th studio album, is set for release on May 20, four days before Dylan...

"American Idol" went out big Thursday night. 

About 13.3 million viewers tuned into the finale of the long-running singing competition series, which saw Trent Harmon crowned the 15th and final "Idol" in a surprise victory over fellow Mississippian La’Porsha Renae. "American Idol" was the most-watched...

A knife-wielding man possibly suffering from mental illness who was fatally shot by Los Angeles police during a standoff in Sylmar was identified Friday morning.

Authorities have identified two men who they say led police on a wild chase across the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday.

Tyler Summitt has stepped down after two seasons as the women's basketball coach at Louisiana Tech over what he indicated was an inappropriate relationship.

A few more takeaways before the final days of the regular season.

One more update: Both the Kings and Ducks clinched home ice in the first round of the playoffs after San Jose lost to Winnipeg.

Positioning vs. level of play

Both teams have been saying for weeks they want to be playing their best...