Новости за 21.04.2016

The wrestling star and actress known as Chyna was found dead Wednesday in her Redondo Beach home, three days after posting a rambling and sometimes incoherent video on YouTube.

A restaurant in Huntington Beach has just opened, with what the business describes as a to-go bacon bar. Saint Marc Pub-Cafe, Bakery and Cheese Affinage (that's the real name) now has a bacon bar where customers can walk up and order 11 different types of bacon by the slice. 

A shallow magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported Thursday morning one mile from Imperial, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 11:14 a.m. PDT at a depth of 8.7 miles.

A year after he surprised the arts world by giving $100 million to Lincoln Center, David Geffen is dropping another cool hundred million on a second New York institution, the Museum of Modern Art.

Prince, one of the best-selling pop artists of all time, died Thursday morning in his home recording studio in Chanhassen, Minn.

It's hard to think about sports at the moment. For those of us who grew up with the music of Prince, the news of his death Thursday at age 57 comes as a shock. Here's a look back at one time the legendary artist did cross paths with the sporting world, back on Feb. 4, 2007, when he played the halftime...

Good Samaritan Hospital will pay $450,000 to settle allegations that it dumped a homeless patient on the streets, and it has also agreed to abide by strict discharge protocols, Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer announced Thursday.

Imax Corp. earnings soared in the first quarter thanks to an unusually strong crop of blockbuster movies in the beginning of the year, as studios increasingly spread out their big movie releases. 

“I need the Mexicans looking dispossessed,” a frustrated assistant director barks at local townsfolk hired to add background color to the big-budget movie “Desposeidos!” In any dialect, the cue is all-too apropos: Their lowly status on the film set mirrors the societal bottom rung occupied by the...

On the last day of her short life, Setayesh Qoreishi – a 6-year-old Afghan refugee – stepped out of her family’s home in the Tehran suburbs to buy an ice cream. She didn’t return.

Officials in Japan are investigating Mitsubishi Motors Corp. after the company said it had found employees manipulated fuel-efficiency data of more than 620,000 light vehicles it manufactured.

RNC rules committee meets Thursday ahead of contentious convention April 21 2016, 9:09 AM The Republican National Committee's rules committee meets Thursday in Florida, and Donald Trump's path to the nomination looks smoother than Ted Cruz's after the New York primary.On the road to the GOP nomination,...

Reaction to Prince's death Thursday in Minnesota swelled up almost instantly and consistently as word of his passing began to spread: Please, don't let it be true. On Twitter, celebrities as disparate as Mack Maine and Melissa Joan Hart echoed the initial thoughts of many fans, who wondered whether...

Golf fought hard to be reinstated as an Olympic sport, but not all pro golfers are thrilled with the idea.

Russia's banned track and field athletes, hoping to be reinstated for the 2016 Summer Olympics, could learn their fate by mid-June.

Solange Knowles wasn't the only guest at Teva’s Tuesday celebration of their latest artist series collaboration. The artists themselves, Emily Hoy, Leah Duncan and the Jolby & Friends team, all wore sandals from the brand, as did many of the guests, most looking as if they arrived straight from...

A few more takeaways before the Kings prepare for an elimination Game 5 on Friday in Los Angeles. The Sharks lead the best-of-seven series, three games to one. The Kings’ best players need to step it up

This is what it sounds like when doves cry. A performer so filled with life and music, Prince Nelson Rogers died Thursday, sending shock waves throughout social media as fans heard the news. His music was the score for the screenplay of many of our lives. These words now come flowing with a greater...

Welcome to another edition of In the Loop, the Los Angeles Times' theme park newsletter. I'm Funland theme park blogger Brady MacDonald, and this week, we prepare to meet Leatherface at Horror Nights 2016, stick a shovel in Star Wars Land, sip a margarita on a zipline coaster, set sail at a Noah’s...

Aaron Simpson of Anaheim Servite is one of those passionate athletes determined to make a difference.

Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley, nearly a year removed from the trade that sent him from Philadelphia to L.A., is ready to play ball for his home in Gladwyne, Pa. He’s listed the updated Colonial for sale at $3.495 million.

Chyna, the WWE star who in the 1990s became one of the best-known and most-popular female professional wrestlers in history, has died, authorities said.

RNC rules committee meets Thursday ahead of contentious convention April 21 2016, 4:04 AM The Republican National Committee's rules committee meets Thursday in Florida, and Donald Trump's path to the nomination looks smoother than Ted Cruz's after the New York primary.On the road to the GOP nomination,...

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

The seaside community of Venice is home to one of the largest concentrations of homeless people in the city of Los Angeles. An estimated 1,000 people without housing camp on its streets and sidewalks, leading to clashes with residents, merchants and police. The L.A. City Council recently adopted...