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After nine years in the Boy Scouts, Jordan Montgomery is on track to attain the group's highest rank.

For years, when he walked the streets of Kabul, Kabir Mokamel felt stifled by the cold gray concrete blast walls that have come to line this once-green city.

Say it slowly. Savor the syllables. Cue Carl Sagan.

Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, Nadir Soofi walked into a suburban Phoenix gun shop to buy a 9-millimeter pistol.

Universal Music Group Chairman and Chief Executive Lucian Grainge is set to lead the world's largest record label for at least five more years as the industry's shift to digital streaming accelerates.

Excuse the riff on the early '90s MC Hammer classic but it's been a chart-topping week online at Hot Property. Since readers voted for their favorites with page views, we've compiled our own lineup of your No. 1 hits. Tally up the song titles and lyrics throughout if you'd like because it's summertime,...

The piece of aircraft believed to be from a Malaysian Airlines jet that mysteriously disappeared 17 months ago arrived in France early Saturday for examination by lab experts.

Good morning. It is Saturday, Aug. 1. Here's what you don't want to miss this weekend: Subscribe to the newsletter Top stories Seeing the drought: There's nothing like a visit to the Oroville Dam to drive home the severity of the state drought for the #drylandsCA reporting team. The lake, which...

Cheers everybody, Jonathan is still on vacation, which you can tell by reading his emailed-in travelogue posts detailing his road trip eating in Italy. When in Modena, you eat - and you write languorous prose about it, at least if you're Jonathan.  Back in L.A., the rest of us are also eating,...

Smithsonian and Bill Cosby: In the July 31 Calendar section, an article about the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art exhibition of Bill and Camille Cosby's art collection misattributed the following quote: "An exhibition focused on this collection raises questions about conflicts of interest,...

Top trade officials for the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries on Friday failed to conclude a major free-trade agreement -- a setback for President Obama and his bid to clinch a deal that has been marked by repeated challenges at home and abroad.

Several hours before he was scheduled to start Friday night against the Angels, Clayton Kershaw was throwing in the outfield at Dodger Stadium.

The Southern Section has released its power rankings for boys and girls basketball for 2015-16 based on past performance.

USC has been picked to win the Pac-12 Conference football championship and appears ready to make a post-sanctions national title run.

In the 1960s, few American women were placed on a higher pedestal than the wives of the nation's astronauts.

Third baseman Justin Turner was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday, opening one of the spots on the Dodgers roster needed for the players who were acquired the previous day in a three-way trade with the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins.

So that fill-in guy, he's OK.

Federal regulators dismissed a complaint against Southern California Edison that accused the utility of failing to seek approval for changes to the San Onofre nuclear power plant that ultimately led to the facility's permanent closure.

The Dodgers are paying $85.75 million for eight players not to play for them this season. This list is limited to players no longer in the organization.

Steve Jobs is a longtime role model for budding techies. But now he comes with an asterisk.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti raised approximately $2.23 million during the first six months of his 2017 reelection campaign, a record-setting sum for incumbent mayors' early contributions in the era of the city's modern campaign-finance system, his campaign reported Friday.

There were no buzzer-beaters in the Angels front office on Friday. Interim General Manager Bill Stoneman didn't pull a Yoenis Cespedes out of his hat like the New York Mets did minutes before the nonwaiver trade deadline.

A rare blue moon is rising tonight, and it will be hard to miss: Just look up.

Welcome to Trail Guide, your daily tour through the wilds of the 2016 presidential campaign. It's Friday and this is what we're watching: Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is releasing new tax filings and a clean bill of health from the candidates's doctor Reporters are also sorting through thousands...

Lynn Anderson, whose strong, husky voice carried her to the top of the charts with "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden," has died. She was 67.