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The event: Rock icon Courtney Love and composer Todd Almond, stars of “Kansas City Choir Boy,” joined theater-goers in the lobby of the Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre following Sunday’s West Coast premiere. Having just received a standing ovation, the duo came ready to chat with friends...

The Event: Famed polo player Nacho Figueras -- dubbed "the Brad Pitt of polo" by an announcer -- once again led Team Black Watch at the sixth annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Saturday at Will Rogers State Historic Park in Pacific Palisades. New this year was the addition of female players—...

An altercation between two passengers on a Southwest plane forced a San Francisco-bound flight to turn around and make an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Sunday night, airport officials said.

Next season, fans only need to show up for the final seconds of the Orange Lutheran-Servite game to feel like they've earned the price of admission.

After a controversy over a segment about Ben Affleck's ancestors that led to the postponement of its third season, "Finding Your Roots" will return to PBS on Jan. 5.

Scientists have long wondered what caused the dramatic extinctions of many different species of animals, from woolly mammoths to saber-tooth cats, in different regions of the world 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.

With the prospect of a team or teams moving to the Los Angeles market, the NFL is planning public hearings in Oakland, St. Louis and San Diego as part of the league’s relocation procedures.

"OH NO YOU DIDN'T!" reader Kathleen McCord wrote to The Times on Monday. She, along with many other Times readers, wondered why "Stone Soup" had been replaced on the Comics page.   "Noooooo!!! This is not OK," wrote Linda Bear of Van Nuys. "Surely this is just a mistake -- the family will be back...

Swimming and surfing was halted Monday off Newport Beach after an 8-foot hammerhead shark was spotted near the pier.

Two teenage boys in Northern California have been arrested in connection with distributing child pornography after making a sex tape with a teen girl without her knowledge, authorities said.

It was shortly after midnight Aug. 22 when the Los Angeles Police Department got the call about a brawl at the Cashmere nightclub in Hollywood.

VH1's new season of "Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood" is full of the bickering, drink-slinging and backstabbing that made the docuseries a guilty pleasure after it premiered last year. Unexpected, however, is the new story line of two black men — both aspiring rappers — in a love relationship.

Good morning. It is Monday, Oct. 19. Cheap can still be tasty. It's Michelin's list of inexpensive eats in San Francisco. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State:   TOP STORIES  Collateral damage Bystanders are injured in 1 in 10 LAPD pursuits. An analysis by the Los Angeles Times finds...

Dropping out of a presidential race is a humbling experience.

Consider Scott Walker. The Wisconsin governor spent August and September outlining plans to remake the nation’s economy and pontificating on the global threat of Russian aggression.

Then his campaign crashed. A week later, he was back...

The shoelace is worn and frayed, with loops tied at each end. David Brown curls his fingers tightly around one loop, then Jerome Avery grabs the other.

Dalila Ali Rajah Julian Walker Alex Newell Patrik-Ian Polk Blake Young-Fountain Darryl Stephens These six men and women of Hollywood gave their thoughts on being openly gay (or bisexual) and black in the industry. Click on their photos or scroll down to see what they said. Diversity has been the...

When actor Darryl Stephens received a call in 2003 that he was cast in a straight-to-DVD series about black gay men, he thought it was his big break, that his four years at UC Berkeley had paid off. But his agents told him not to take the role, concerned, in part, that a job requiring a man-on-man...

When President Obama heard about an awkward middle school student from Texas who had gotten into trouble with a big idea — a science project in the form of a clock that a teacher thought looked like a bomb — he identified.

That ballyhooed new California law allowing terminally ill patients to end their suffering by swallowing a lethal pill won't take effect any time soon. And nobody knows when it will.

I'm Christina Bellantoni, the Essential Politics host getting your week started. Subscribe to the newsletter California's congressional delegation is the largest - with 53 in the House and Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein in the Senate. The House majority and minority leader each hail from the...

Welcome to California Inc., the weekly newsletter of the L.A. Times Business Section. I'm Business columnist David Lazarus, and here's a rundown of upcoming stories this week and the highlights of last week. Subscribe to the newsletter Many Social Security beneficiaries were left wondering if they'll...

As another showdown approaches over raising the nation's debt limit, people across the political spectrum are looking for ways to defuse an unusual budgetary mechanism that in recent years has ignited frequent congressional brinkmanship and threatened the shaky U.S. economy.

Cam Fowler chatted with reporters for a few moments after his media scrum and did something that had not been seen much recently in the Ducks' dressing room.

Two games can't totally erase the shortcomings, the lack of chemistry and spark by the Kings in the first three games of this season.

When it comes to wildfires, some federal officials are tired of playing catch-up and leaving private property at heightened risk of a blaze.