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Campaign 2016 updates: Debate briefly puts vice presidential nominees in the spotlight Oct. 4, 2016, 9:19 a.m. Tim Kaine and Mike Pence face off Tuesday in Farmville, Va., in the election's only vice presidential debate.Kaine and Pence have both largely ceded the spotlight to their running matesThe...

A youth sports survey from the L84 Foundation has found that soccer is played by more kids than any other sport in ages 6 to 17 in the Los Angeles area.

“Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1932. Nearly 85 years later, the pernicious myth that black Americans are more dangerous than other races continues to shape our approaches to public safety, even as the best research...

British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that "revealed the secrets of exotic matter," the prize committee said.

America’s political attention will turn tonight toward the tiny town that straddles Virginia’s Appomattox River. There, in Farmville, Va., the two men who aspire to be a heartbeat away from the presidency will square off in a 90-minute nationally televised debate.

A job in software sales and consulting gave Steve Arhancet a car and house. Quitting that position and moving across the country to Culver City to become a professional video game player might just buy him a mansion. Last week, Arhancet and business partner Victor Goossens announced they sold a...

Meet the new cable company. Same as the old cable company.

That was Culver City resident Jack Cohen’s feeling the other day when he received his first bill from Spectrum, the newly christened brand from Charter Communications, which has gobbled up Time Warner Cable.

He told me he’d been paying...

All that was left of the onetime bishop was an oily ankle monitor.

What became of the ankle, and the rest of Lyle Jeffs, is a $50,000 question to the FBI in Salt Lake City.

Lyle Jeffs is brother to Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...

Inside a cavernous soundstage on the Universal Studios lot, a new kind of production was underway on the set of the NBC comedy "Superstore." Five social media sensations - including Vine star Splack  - were recently crafting 30-second videos to post on their social media channels ahead of the comedy's...

Anyone looking for confirmation of the nation’s cultural divide can add education and gender-neutral bathrooms to the list of proof points.

Dennis Eckart still has the sheet from the yellow legal pad where he wrote it down: “Quayle thinks he’s JFK!”

Come November, medical pot dispensary operator Lanette Davies won’t be joining others in her industry in voting for Proposition 64, a measure that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana.

It's not easy being thrown in to big-time Division 1 high school football as a sophomore quarterback.

Minnesota's defense denied Odell Beckham Jr. all night and forced two turnovers that led to 10 points, and the Vikings mystified Eli Manning yet again during a 24-10 victory Monday over the New York Giants. 

A suspicious package at the 7th Street/Metro Center train stop in downtown Los Angeles forced authorities to shut down the station and reroute some trains, delaying riders during the Monday evening commute.

Gloria Naylor, whose debut novel "The Women of Brewster Place," became a bestseller, a National Book Award winner and a TV miniseries released through Oprah Winfrey's production company, has died at the age of 66.

Thousands of women took to the streets of Poland to protest a proposed law that would almost totally ban abortions in this strictly Catholic country. Wearing black, linking arms and marching under the banner #CzarnyProtest, or Black Protest, abortion rights activists on Monday also used social...

In a little over 24 hours this weekend, police officers fatally shot two people in South L.A.: an 18-year-old man they said turned toward them with a gun in his hand and another who allegedly pointed a realistic-looking replica at police.

Unlikely to make the Dodgers’ postseason roster, left-handed reliever Adam Liberatore will undergo season-ending surgery to remove damaged tissue from his left elbow on Tuesday, the team announced. Dr. Neal ElAttrache will perform the debridement. The team indicated Liberatore would be ready for...

Mark McGwire is getting another swing at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The former slugger who admitted using steroids joins former commissioner Bud Selig, the late New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, former Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser and manager Davey Johnson, and five others on the Today’s...

The Rams remain in search of their running game, but they have found a proven formula for dramatic endings.

The outer bands of powerful Hurricane Matthew drenched Haiti on Monday, flooding streets and sending people scrambling to emergency shelters as the Category 4 storm threatened to hit the hemisphere's poorest nation overnight with life-threatening winds, rains and storm surge.

Freshman receiver Theo Howard, a Westlake High grad, scored his first touchdown for UCLA last Saturday against Arizona.

Lakers guard Lou Williams can’t pick just one police-related killing that sparked his outrage.

Campaign 2016 updates: Trump defends business failures, says he paid as little tax as possible Oct. 3, 2016, 7:21 p.m. Donald Trump heads to Colorado, and Hillary Clinton campaigns in the battleground state of Ohio:Donald Trump defends his business failures, says he paid as little tax as possible.Hillary...