Thousands are expected to attend a special Mass on Sunday afternoon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the "immigrant spirit" and to call for comprehensive immigration reform.
It's a surfer's worst nightmare. There's a swish in the ocean near your board, a flash of dorsal fin, something large brushes by and the water begins to churn like a supersized blender.
A suspect was arrested Sunday in the slayings of three children and two adults in Modesto, authorities said.
Donald Trump refused to apologize for mocking Sen. John McCain's military service this weekend, insisting that he has been subject to unfair criticism from jealous rivals and biased media.
Moisture left over from a tropical storm off Baja California continued to stream through Southern California on Sunday and is expected to bring a new wave of scattered showers and thunderstorms, beginning Sunday evening and continuing through Monday, forecasters said.
A 21-year-old man drowned in the backyard pool of the Beverly Crest home of actress Demi Moore, authorities said Sunday.
Songwriter Roy C. Bennett co-wrote more than 40 songs recorded by Elvis Presley. None of them were major hits, but Bennett and writing partner Sid Tepper were not rock 'n' roll tunesmiths - they wrote ballads and novelty songs that Elvis sang in his popular movies.
For the first time in more than 80 years, an amateur sits at the top of the British Open leaderboard through 54 holes.
Not all heroes of the civil rights movement became household names. Consider Harry T. Moore.
The most prized credential of Hillary Rodham Clinton's political director may not be her connections on Capitol Hill, her experience courting the crucial Latino vote or the diversity she brings as the child of a Mexican immigrant, but her run for office - which she lost.
Sidelined outfielder Carl Crawford has completed his minor-league rehabilitation assignment with triple-A Oklahoma City and will meet the Dodgers in Atlanta on Monday, Manager Don Mattingly said.
Superhero film "Ant-Man" topped the weekend with $58 million, marking the 12th consecutive Marvel film to open in first place.
A Los Angeles County supervisor who stalled a vote on raising the county minimum wage last month in the face of pushback from small businesses now says she is prepared to vote for a gradual increase to $15 an hour, giving the proposal the majority vote it needs to pass Tuesday.
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Just what the party planner ordered, so take your meeting or family reunion global.
A preliminary accord on a financial bailout last week seemed to have stabilized Greece for the moment, but ongoing uncertainties about its suitability as a vacation destination remain.
It's a shame that Michele Bigley ("Spontaneity Can Be So Much Fun," July 5) didn't expand her enjoyment of Lava Hot Springs to take the opportunity to relate a history lesson to her children. The Idaho section of the Oregon Trail runs right through Lava Hot Springs and was noted in several pioneer...
All Los Angeles County beaches were closed for a second time Saturday after officials spotted lightning strikes within a few miles of the shore, officials said.
Southern California was pounded by scattered showers thanks to Tropical Cyclone Dolores, prompting concerns about lightning and flooding.
At a rally on Saturday marking the one-year anniversary of Eric Garner's death, his mother was joined on stage by other mothers whose sons were killed in high-profile confrontations with police or security officers. Together, they made an impassioned plea that their situations not be repeated.
What Marvel's latest big-screen comic book hero lacks in size, it makes up for in box office pull.
"Jane the Virgin's" Gina Rodriguez may star in a TV show based on a Venezuelan telenovela - and her character may devour Spanish soaps with her abuela - but when she was growing up in Chicago, the programs she plopped herself in front of the tube to catch were apple pie sitcoms such as "Growing...
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