What two Los Angeles moms want to see in their kids' schools
Last month the Education Matters team spoke to Lourdes Vazquez and Esperanza Mejia, who are friends living in Pico-Union. We asked them what they want to see in their children's schools.
Last month the Education Matters team spoke to Lourdes Vazquez and Esperanza Mejia, who are friends living in Pico-Union. We asked them what they want to see in their children's schools.
Kerry Simon, who died Friday, was a serious chef who refused to take himself seriously.
Legendary television producer and writer Norman Lear has put his estate in Brentwood on the market at $55 million. Perhaps "The Jeffersons" co-creator and writer has a "deee-luxe apartment" in mind next.
Parents scrambled for child-care arrangements, public libraries were filled with students, and teachers worked picket lines Monday as the largest school district in Washington state entered its second week on strike.
The tall, thin guy bounds up the trail toward the climbing wall like a caffeinated gazelle - this one with spiky hair and sunglasses.
Chris Hardwick is old enough to remember a time when being called a nerd was - believe it or not, kids - a bad thing.
A few weeks after Donald Trump launched his campaign for the presidency, a friend asked Ricardo Aca a question: "How would you feel about making a short documentary and risking your job?"
Kim Davis, probably the nation's best known local clerk, is scheduled to return to her Rowan County, Ky., office on Monday, and the world will be watching to see what she'll do about issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
There was once a person named Walt Disney, who made cartoons and created a new kind of amusement park; there remains a corporation bearing his name that also has something to do with cartoons and amusement parks. They are not synonymous.
State Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris is holding her lead in the race to succeed Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate, but strong support among Latinos has enabled Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Orange County to establish herself as a serious rival, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.
Kristina Schake had built a solid reputation among political operatives for driving the shift in voter opinion on gay marriage, foiling Big Tobacco forces and helping Michelle Obama transcend the traditional role of first lady -- but the State Department was not her wheelhouse.
The Republican presidential candidates will debate at the Ronald Reagan library Wednesday, and you can't help but wonder what the Gipper would think of this bunch.
Mayors of a dozen cities in the U.S. and China are nailing down agreements to team up in the fight against climate change, starting with a plan forged over the weekend between the officials of Los Angeles and Beijing to collaborate in promoting clean air in their cities.
Imagine you're a presidential campaign director. With just four months to go before election day, which of the following would you not want your candidate to post on Facebook?
Tennis calls Novak Djokovic the No. 1 player in the world. Roger Federer probably calls him kryptonite.
Three dogs were found dead and another 12 were missing Sunday after someone broke into a Riverside County animal shelter and clipped the locks on 22 kennels, officials said.
Twelve people, including two Mexican tourists, were reported killed Sunday when Egyptian forces mistook a tourist convoy in Egypt's western desert for a group of terrorists, according to official accounts from Egypt and Mexico.
Thirty minutes before the meeting at a South Los Angeles church was supposed to start, the parking lot was already full.
Los Ángeles Dodgers han adquirido un nuevo atributo desde la llegada del entrenador de tercera base Ron Roenicke.
By Saturday, USC will have waited three weeks for its first real test of the season.
The most creative and fascinating piece of technology in ESPN's "Monday Night Football" this season won't be on the sideline, or hovering over the field, or in the broadcast booth. In fact, it will be on display before each game even starts.
Five things to watch this week in college football:
When Moses Malone was growing up in Petersburg, Va., he lived in a four-room wooden house propped up on cinder blocks - a wobbly-looking structure that, in his last year of high school, was jammed with boxes full of scholarship offers from colleges vying for the 6-foot-10 basketball phenomenon.
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Good morning. It is Monday, Sept. 14. Here's what is happening in the Golden State: TOP STORIES Wildfires take a toll Homes and other structures were destroyed this weekend as wildfires raged in Lake and Napa counties. The Valley Fire was so damaging that Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency...