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Superstore Ravi Patel (“Grandfathered”) guest stars as a vice president from the chain’s corporate office in a new episode of the workplace sitcom. 8 p.m. NBC

An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was convicted Wednesday of fatally shooting a man during a 2014 dispute over a vehicle speeding in a Hemet neighborhood, authorities said.

Averaging 25 points and having led Pasadena to a 4-0 record in the Pacific League, 6-foot-4 junior Bryce Hamilton is making himself a player to watch.

Few baseball players available this off-season better fit the needs of the Dodgers than Minnesota Twins second baseman Brian Dozier.

A charter bus idled outside Galen Center on Wednesday afternoon with its underbelly open waiting to ferry USC to Los Angeles International Airport. It was an ominous portent.

The new year provided a fresh start for the Clippers, though it had less to do with the calendar’s turning to 2017  than with an easier schedule that gave them a chance to recover from their 2016-closing six-game losing streak.

Listen closely to those baboon calls — they may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel-like sounds – a sign that the physical capacity for speech may have evolved over much longer...

Who are the Dodgers?

For the last couple of years, they were Clayton Kershaw, Adrian Gonzalez and a group of replaceable mercenaries. They were Andrew Friedman’s mad experiment, a statistically driven machine that made transactions with minimal regard for the human cost.

They were the team that...

Hope keeps alive the Lakers’ broadcasts that make it all the way to a little town called Citluk, part of wine country in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ryan Kavanaugh, the founder and chief executive of Relativity Media, has been hit with a lawsuit by a former executive at the studio who accuses the once high-flying media executive of hiring him on false pretenses and then improperly firing him.

Los Angeles County transportation officials Wednesday launched a 24-hour hotline for riders who are harassed or assaulted on buses and trains.

The crowd swelled inside the ornate Million Dollar Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday night for a screening of “Moonlight” with live musical accompaniment, fresh off the film’s Golden Globe win for best dramatic motion picture.

Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan, Justin Chang and other reviewers. Click title for full review.

Oscar De La Hoya tweeted Wednesday that Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has a contract in front of him to sign to meet Canelo Alvarez in a bout pitting Mexico’s two most popular fighters atop a Cinco de Mayo weekend card.

Joseph Kikuchi, a former high school basketball coach in Alhambra, was convicted Wednesday of sexually abusing a female player.

President-elect Trump's first press conference: What's clear and what was left unsaid Jan. 11, 2017, 8:19 p.m. This is our look at President-elect Donald Trump's transition and the outgoing Obama administration: A breakdown of what Trump revealed to the media today, from business conflicts to Obamacare...

Six Volkswagen executives were indicted Wednesday on federal charges tied to the German automaker’s emissions scandal, and the company agreed to plead guilty to violating U.S. air quality laws.

Weeks of pound rain and snow have increase the Sierra Nevada Mountains snowpack — a key source of water for California — to 158% of normal, officials said Wednesday.

Over the course of a career spanning three decades, makeup artist Nicole Bryl has spruced up Oscar winners (Sandra Bullock, Jack Nicholson and Mel Gibson), models (Hilary Rhoda and Cindy Crawford), royalty (Prince Albert II, Queen Noor and Princess Charlene), crooners (Tony Bennett and Harry Connick...

President-elect Donald Trump amplified his already heated war with the intelligence community Wednesday, accusing agents of leaking an ugly and unsubstantiated report about him while comparing the tactic to Nazis.

The life of a musician can be economically precarious, and the club-gig circuit rarely comes with health insurance. Under the Affordable Care Act, many artists have been able to find and afford coverage for the first time.

With edgy marketing, an audacious founder and quality clothing sewn in Los Angeles, American Apparel was held up as a rare success story in U.S. manufacturing at a time when many in the garment industry were racing overseas. 

With bells strapped to his fingers and Stockhausen on his piano’s music stand, Mark Robson ceremoniously rang in a new year for the Piano Spheres series at REDCAT on Tuesday night. His right hand, the one wearing bells, was devoted to sending the keyboard’s highest notes into rapid pulsation. The...

Los Angeles Unified students will start school in mid-August and get three weeks off during the winter — for now. 

Ice Cube and Allen Iverson are putting their star power behind a new 3-on-3 professional basketball league.