A UCLA student whose body was found Monday inside a burning apartment near the Westwood campus had been charged with multiple felony counts of possessing club drugs, according to court records.
Not far from Kennedy Airport, where Pope Francis' plane would soon touch down, members of New York's Argentine community hoped against hope that the pontiff would stop for a visit.
Queen B has a new heir! Leighton Meester has given birth to a baby girl that we're hoping will sport an enviable headband collection reminiscent of mom's TV alter ego.
The country with the world's most prolific film industry has never won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Orange Lutheran, Loyola, Taft and Windward top the 16-team field for the Beverly Hills tournament that will take place in basketball Dec. 7-12.
No sooner had Pope Francis finished his address to Congress than commentators obsessed with U.S. politics started to deconstruct his speech from a partisan and ideological perspective. How many of the pontiff's points came from the liberal Democratic playbook? How many checked the boxes of the...
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It was a simple request. Someone wanted a Pope Francis doll.
Californians take an estimated 2 million bicycle trips each day. They should start kicking in for the roads they use.
At one point, potential backers of the movie "Sicario" encouraged its screenwriter to rewrite the lead character as a man in order to attract a big-name male star.
At least 310 pilgrims were killed Thursday in a crowd crush outside the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia's civil defense directorate said.
The Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, the chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, has been thinking for some time about what he'll say when he greets Pope Francis at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday.
Thursday nights are getting kind of nuts down NBC way. When the network decided last year to kill its long-standing tradition of back-to-back comedies, it meant it with a vengeance - and that should be read literally.
Raytheon Co. is the Pentagon's lead contractor for JLENS, an air-defense system based on massive, radar-equipped blimps. Here is how Raytheon's descriptions of the system's performance hold up against independent assessments and Times reporting.
A lot of attention has been focused this week on Volkswagen and the scandal that it cheated on emissions tests its vehicles must pass to help combat air pollution. But are those smog standards, now in place in at least 31 states, really that important?
Question: My landlord and I have always had a positive relationship, but of late he has been changing the nature of our rent payment dates.
Can the technology that set the video gaming world abuzz create classical music fanboys and girls?
With weather forecasters expecting that Southern California will face one of the most severe El Niños on record this winter, city officials in flood-prone Newport Beach are busy preparing for heavy rains.
After decades of ideologically based hostility, the United States and China found common ground on an economic relationship that, while bumpy, served the larger interests of both countries.
The Azalea shopping center features a lineup of shops familiar to suburban malls: Forever 21, TGI Friday's and Michaels.
A dual suicide bombing tore through a Shiite Muslim mosque on one of Islam's most important holidays Thursday, killing 25 people, security officials said.
Two men were found dead Wednesday in a Compton marijuana dispensary, and authorities say the pair died from apparent gunshot wounds.
On Saturday, Dodgers right-hander Zack Greinke appeared in the office of Manager Don Mattingly with concerning news.
On the eve of the first day of classes at UCLA, fans packed Pauley Pavilion for the matchup between the No. 13 Bruins and No. 3 USC in women's volleyball, but the home-court crowd saw its crosstown rival get the decisive win.
Three children were wounded Wednesday evening when they were caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting while eating at a South Los Angeles taco stand.