The vehicle used for the alleged pilfering of water from a Ventura County water district's fire hydrant was a white water-tender truck -- not a red Ferrari driven by a mustachioed man wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball cap and a Hawaiian shirt.
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange resumed Wednesday afternoon after a shutdown of more than three hours, and investors kept up the drubbing of shares in reaction to uncertainty about a Greek debt deal and a swoon in Chinese stocks.
Taco Bell got an early start in the home delivery business, but it wasn't a chalupa that was delivered from the parking lot of a Kern County restaurant.
A contingent of Clippers players and executives was scheduled to meet with DeAndre Jordan in his Houston hometown early Wednesday afternoon, trying to persuade the free-agent center to renege on his commitment to the Dallas Mavericks after Jordan had expressed second thoughts about his decision...
Paramount Pictures will bring some of its theatrical release movies to home video much earlier than usual in an experimental deal with cinemas chains that could foreshadow a broader shift.
"Minions" is expected to bring their mayhem to the box office this weekend as family films continue to draw in large numbers of moviegoers.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is sticking with his plan to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill with a woman.
The Washington Redskins' legal battle to maintain registrations of their federal trademark suffered another setback Wednesday.
The race is on. Free agent center DeAndre Jordan is the prize. Hours before Jordan can officially sign with a team, Clippers' shooting guard J.J. Redick tweeted an emoji of a car, while Dallas Mavericks small forward Chandler Parsons tweeted an emoji of a plane. Clippers' superstar power forward...
Chris Pine, Casey Affleck and a whole lot of New England accents star in the new trailer for "The Finest Hours," Disney's fact-based disaster drama about a daring Coast Guard rescue in 1952.
Ariana Grande's idea of a fun July 4? Disrespecting people who work for a living, licking doughnuts that other folks might unsuspectingly buy and declaring in disgust that she hates America and Americans.
When Bill Cosby delivered a speech at an NAACP event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education in 2004, he probably imagined it would be controversial. After all, in his remarks the legendary comedian urged his fellow African Americans to stop blaming racism for their...
These are larky times for comedy. Between dedicated cable stations, an Internet where everything can happen and a community of comic actors and writers who all seem to have one another on speed dial, a lot of improbable projects, some of them seemingly the product of a random thought, drunken conversation...
The on-demand transportation race is heating up in China with Chinese ride-hailing startup Didi Kuaidi announcing Wednesday it has raised $2 billion from investors.
Linebacker Daelin Hayes walked by Willie McGinest at the Opening, and McGinest, a former USC All-American linebacker, smiled.
Members of South Carolina's House of Representatives slogged through their first round of debate Wednesday about whether to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds with one pro-flag lawmaker slowing discussion by proposing dozens of amendments, many of which were tabled or withdrawn.
American investors have few direct links to the flagging Chinese stock market, but the indirect fallout from the plunge the Asian giant's benchmark index could be protracted and painful for parts of the U.S. economy, experts said.
A contingent of Clippers is traveling to Houston to try to convince free-agent center DeAndre Jordan to back out on his commitment to the Dallas Mavericks and stay with the only NBA team he has known, according to league executives.
Federal Reserve policymakers wanted to see more economic improvement before hiking a key interest rate and expressed concerns about the effects of the Greece debt crisis and other global problems on U.S. growth, according to minutes of their June meeting released Wednesday.
Los Angeles residents would see water and power rate increases of 2.4% to 5.4% every year for five years in order to replace aging infrastructure, meet conservation mandates and upgrade customer service under a plan announced Wednesday by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Pope Francis took his Latin American pilgrimage to the heavily indigenous Andean nation of Bolivia, where his challenge will be to reconcile ethnic communities with traditional Catholicism.
You thought that Marshawn Lynch biopic trailer was bad? Just wait until you see the movie.
Stock prices in China have plummeted in the last month, raising concern about the outlook for the world's second-largest economy and the spillover effect on global markets.
In my Wednesday column, I wrote that Bernie Sanders is showing surprising strength in this early stage of the Democratic presidential race - but I concluded that he's still a long shot for the nomination.
The Los Angeles tech scene has spawned numerous e-commerce websites, dating and messaging apps, and online video companies, but a growing contingent of start-ups wants the attention to shift to a new sector: educational technology.