Category: Los Angeles

Illegal dumping has been a blight in Watts for decades, and despite promises from officials, the South L.A. neighborhood has gotten dirtier.

Nick Cannon has as many business projects as he has children, and he wishes people would talk about that a bit more.

Culver City track star Joelle Trepagnier is the daughter of former USC runner Malika Edmonson and granddaughter of UCLA legend Warren Edmonson and Olympian Barbara Edmonson.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said the Lakers dominated Game 3 because they got to the free-throw line, created turnovers and played well in transition.

Dancer and chef Yoko Hasebe launched Plant Sushi Yoko, a pickup and delivery service with the best vegan sushi in Los Angeles.

In a departure from the string of polished pop hits that made Ed Sheeran one of the world’s bestselling music artists, his new album, “Subtract,” is a stripped-down return to his singer-songwriter roots. The unassuming superstar talks with correspondent Seth Doane about how his latest music is very much a reflection of recent times, filled with personal challenges, loss, mental health struggles, and controversy. He also discusses the recent lawsuit accusing him of plagiarism (which a jury this past week rejected).

Imagine if justices of the Highest Court in the Land had to live under a code of ethics just like us mere mortals – such as reporting when they’ve accepted gifts from wealthy collectors of Nazi memorabilia! Imagine that!

Imagine if justices of the Highest Court in the Land had to live under a code of ethics just like us mere mortals – like, report when they’ve accepted gifts from wealthy collectors of Nazi memorabilia. No need; Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri has imagined it for you.

First published in France in 1900, The Michelin Guide has been awarding stars to restaurants for about 100 years. Today, it rates the work of chefs around the world, including in the United States. Correspondent Kelefa Sanneh talks with an anonymous Michelin restaurant inspector, and with chefs at a restaurant with a coveted Michelin star.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is asking the public for help in locating missing at-risk teenager Jaqualine Ramos Espinoza.  Jaqualine was last seen on Saturday at 1 a.m. in the 8400 block of Fairton Street in the city of Paramount.  She is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 80 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing a white shirt, black and white spotted pajama pants and black and white Converse shoes.  Jaqualine Ramos Espinoza as seen in an undated photo. (LASD) Anyone with any information is urged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lakewood Station at 562-623-3500.  Information can also be submitted anonymously by calling 1-800-222-8477 or by going to lacrimestoppers.org 

D’Angelo Russell, who had 21 points in big Game 3 win, realized after trade deadline that the Lakers “got some bodies here that gets us over the hump.”

It’s the final month of the 2022-23 school year, heralding the arrival of spring sports championships across the Southland. What you can expect.

Members of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation became the latest Indigenous tribe to watch homes burn despite knowing it could have been avoided.

LeBron James and Maverick Carter describe the summer the 16-year-old future NBA star first met legend Michael Jordan in an excerpt from “LeBron.”

Political cowardice has given us a half-century of increasingly inhuman incarceration conditions and has diminished safety both inside and outside Los Angeles County jails.

The following is the transcript of an interview with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Independent of Arizona, that aired on “Face the Nation” on May 7, 2023.

Congress raised the debt ceiling three times under President Trump and six times under President Obama. But it may be harder now, increasing the chances of catastrophe.

(NewsNation) — At least nine people are dead, including the suspected shooter, after the gunman opened fire at a busy mall outside Dallas, officials announced Saturday. The Allen fire department said they found seven dead upon arrival at the scene, and transported nine victims to a medical facility, fire chief Jonathan Boyd announced at a press conference. Of the nine who were taken to the hospital, two have died, three are in critical condition and four are stable. An Allen Police officer was in the area on an unrelated call when he heard shots at 3:36 p.m., the police department wrote on Facebook. “The officer engaged the suspect and neutralized the threat. He then called for emergency personnel. Nine victims were transported to local hospitals by Allen Fire Department,” the agency wrote in a Facebook post. “There is no longer an active threat.” According to CNN, a manhunt is underway for a potential second suspect. The Collin County Sheriff said the shooter is dead, WFAA reported. A dispatcher with Allen police confirmed the department was investigating a shooting, after calls about shots being fired came

ShotGPT, Whoogle? and SnapPray make it easy for Republicans in Congress to do nothing — or worse — on gun violence.

Giving Kyiv a few dozen advanced U.S.-made fighter jets would signal to the Kremlin that it no longer has impunity.

She had reached the moderate stage of Alzheimer’s disease but was otherwise healthy. She was lucky, and so were we, that she could choose to end her life on her own terms before things got worse.