Новости за 03.10.2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton made an unplanned trip to the headquarters of the nation’s largest teachers union Saturday morning to lock down its endorsement and calm the jitters of union leaders under pressure from members to withhold support.

Bad weather has yet to hit NFL games this season, but yellow flags have been raining from the start.

Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena doesn't suffer fools — or foolish questions — gladly. So, asked what changed for a team that followed three consecutive scoreless games with a 3-2 win last Sunday, his answer was as predictable as it was acerbic.

Lakers beat writer Mike Bresnahan will be at Lakers camp through their last practice on the island on Wednesday, Oct. 7. He will be providing continual updates with the latest news, notes and analysis from camp.  Need to catch up with the action so far? Check out Bresnahan's report from yesterday here....

Senior lenders to Relativity Media have agreed to pay $125 million for the troubled studio's television business, according to court documents filed Saturday. The deal could leave the remaining Relativity assets -- including the film unit -- in the hands of its founder and chief executive Ryan...

An officer from California was among six Air Force personnel killed Friday in the crash of a C-130 transport plane in Afghanistan.

Prompted by the escape of an inmate from the Men’s Central Jail downtown, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials closed all three of the department’s jails to visitors Saturday to allow for a detailed security assessment.

You tend to notice when the new neighbors have a caged lion at their housewarming party, dress like Superman and Catwoman and install a mural of themselves on their garage door.

Authorities arrested a gunman who they said was involved in a shootout with Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies late Friday in the City of Industry.

It was a hot Saturday morning at Old World Village in Huntington Beach. In the west parking lot, 11 booths were set up for the commercial center's weekly farmers market, but guests were few and far between.

Police say a crew working for an Oakland television station was robbed at gunpoint for a video camera worth an estimated $60,000.

The teenage driver involved in a fiery vehicle collision that resulted in the deaths of five juvenile passengers in Irvine last year has been charged in connection with their deaths, authorities said Saturday.

It has been a long time since a group of public schools in Orange County deserved equal billing with the best private schools in football, but three teams from the South Coast League — Mission Viejo (6-0), San Juan Capistrano San Juan Hills (6-0) and Las Flores Tesoro (5-1) — are giving every indication...

Orange County authorities are searching for the driver of a pickup truck who struck and killed a man on a skateboard Friday night in San Juan Capistrano before fleeing the scene.

Director Ridley Scott's "The Martian" is landing with audiences, having taken in an estimated $18 million at the North American box office on Friday.

The man’s voice cracked, then he sobbed as he spoke.“The government has everything and we have lost everything,” he said. “Please help us to keep looking and digging, to give us the resources we need.”Mario Vergara, 40, stood crying on a verdant hill on the outskirts of Iguala in Guerrero state....

In an era when few minorities of any kind belonged to Los Angeles' social and civic elite, Marilyn Hudson was sometimes seen as the token black, but she didn't mind.

Wang Xiuren's traditional courtyard house in central Beijing, a short walk from Tiananmen Square, has witnessed the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese occupation, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the market reforms of the 1980s and '90s.

A suspected U.S. airstrike early Saturday hit a hospital run by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz and left nine staff members dead.

Volkswagen's stunning admission that it rigged its diesel cars to pass emissions tests is setting up one of the largest, costliest legal cases in U.S. history.

Syria's bloody and intractable civil war became even more complicated this week when Russian warplanes started attacking rebel positions in support of the country's embattled government. What began in 2011 as a mostly peaceful uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad has grown into a multisided...

Damon Lindelof understands you want answers.

It's a familiar refrain throughout his prodigious film and TV career. He heard it about the end of "Lost," which he co-created. Again, about the whole of "Prometheus," which he co-wrote. And most recently, about HBO's "The Leftovers," which returns for...

— Last year, the budget writers in Gov. Jerry Brown's administration held their noses when Democrats pushed through the Legislature a $3.2-million subsidy for a union healthcare plan.

Good morning. It is Saturday, Oct. 3. Here's what you don't want to miss this weekend: Subscribe to the newsletter TOP STORIES Understanding crime: The rise in gang crime in South Los Angeles suggests the limits of community policing, writes columnist Sandy Banks. And Mayor Eric Garcetti's suggestion...

Four months into mandatory watering restrictions that have curbed Southern California's residential irrigation routines, the news is both good and not so good. On the plus side, citizens are saving water — in many cases, beyond expectations. Many cities are making their mandatory cutback levels...