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Markieff Morris wasn't a happy camper Wednesday evening.

Chances are, he's even more unhappy Thursday after the Phoenix Suns suspended the power forward for two games for “conduct detrimental to the team.” A night earlier, Morris threw a towel toward Coach Jeff Hornacek after being benched during...

It's a disease humorist Stephen Colbert once poked fun at in this tweet:  "Remember, if you're in public and have the winter vomiting bug, be polite and vomit into your elbow."

"The Hateful Eight" is an ultrawide bore. If you have the option, and you're committed to seeing the thing, you should see Quentin Tarantino's latest in one of its 100 or so limited-release "roadshow" screenings, projected on film, complete with overture (a lovely, eerie one from the great composer...

"Bird" is a slim novel, beautifully constructed and emotionally potent, without a word out of place.

Former longtime Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion Anderson Silva will return from his suspension for performance-enhancing drug use Feb. 27 in London against England’s Michael Bisping, the UFC announced Thursday.

Actor Robert Downey Jr., who spent time behind bars in the late 1990s on drug convictions, received a Christmas Eve pardon from Gov. Jerry Brown, effectively scrubbing his criminal record clean.

What makes writer-director David O. Russell's best work, films such as "The Fighter," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle," so thrilling is that each is a high-wire act that runs the moment-to-moment risk of tumbling to the ground. In "Joy," his latest, Russell has more trouble than...

Dozens of police vehicles have converged on a mall in North Carolina after receiving reports of shots fired.

For First Nations actor Duane Howard, a veteran screen and stunt performer, the cold chaos of "The Revenant" wasn't an ordeal but the fulfillment of a 30-year personal journey.

Southern Californians seeking a taste of winter weather will get their wish this Christmas as a cold storm system swings through the region, bringing chilly temperatures, rain and even snow in the mountains.

A goofball comedy laced with very real adult anxieties, "Daddy's Home" engages with both the pressures of a new marriage with stepchildren and the paradoxical nature of modern manhood. In its best moments, it's a sly exposé of the frailties of the contemporary male self-image and in its lesser...

Super Bowl 50 will be played Feb. 7, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

A man was stabbed by a 400-pound, bearded woman soon after asking a group of people for a cigarette in San Diego's East Village on Wednesday night, police said.

William Powell and Myrna Loy made a staggering 14 films together. Six of those were as the wealthy sophisticated married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles in MGM's popular "The Thin Man" series based on the Dashiell Hammett mystery novel.

Twins in fiction and mythology are often a clever way to play with a reader's sense of reality. "One Out of Two," a wily, compressed novel by the late Mexican writer Daniel Sada, features spinster twins who at first blush seem most intent on confusing bystanders as to which sister is which.

A shallow magnitude 4.0 earthquake was reported Thursday morning four miles from West Bishop, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 11:14 a.m. PST at a depth of 4.3 miles.

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Both intentionally and otherwise, "Concussion" is a troubling film.

As the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian-born forensic pathologist who was key to discovering a link between playing football, concussions and a brain disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, that can cause...

"Twilight Zone" marathons (Syfy, Wednesday through Sunday, El Rey, Thursday to Friday) "Ash vs. Evil Dead" marathon (Starz, Monday through Wednesday). Before there was the binge there was the marathon, wherein episodes of an old TV series -- we used to call them "reruns" -- would air continuously,...

By most accounts, Roberta Jacobson’s confirmation as U.S. ambassador to Mexico should have been a shoo-in.

It's been 10 years since Dr. Julian Bailes placed his fateful phone call to Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who discovered a disease he named "chronic traumatic encephalopathy" in the brains of deceased football players. At the time, Omalu was under assault from physicians on the National Football...

Colin and Ethan Verdehyou grabbed red shopping carts and headed directly to the toys and electronics sections of the Redlands Target. Ten-year-old Ethan gasped as he entered an aisle filled with Star Wars merchandise.

The artisanal bread movement has been slower to gain traction here in Los Angeles than, say, in San Francisco or New York. There are as many variables to a great bread scene as there are to the great bread itself: climate and flour, neighborhood and economics. Because as simple as bread may be,...

Immigration officials are preparing a nationwide push in January to apprehend and deport Central American families who arrived in recent years and have been ordered by immigration judges to leave, according to officials familiar with the plan.‎

At first glance, Dr. Bennet Omalu seems an unlikely subject for a major studio movie. A Nigerian-born forensic pathologist, Omalu worked for years in quiet obscurity, performing autopsies at the Allegheny County Coroner's Office in Pittsburgh — hardly the kind of resume that would normally attract...