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The 15-year-old, found with rescue dogs, says there are others near him in the debris of a collapsed hotel where he worked.
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The 15-year-old, found with rescue dogs, says there are others near him in the debris of a collapsed hotel where he worked.
County health inspections are spotty even at restaurants with confirmed cases of poisoning, says report by Joel Grover.
The ACLU drops its support after the policy allows officers to view footage before writing reports. Chief Beck also says he won't release footage publicly.
Groundbreaking is set today for a $200 million retail and entertainment center to be built on the site of a swap meet burned down in the 1992 riots, which began on this date.
Ely co-founded the Portland garage band the Kingsmen and was the lead singer on their 1963 cover of "Louie Louie." Written by Angeleno Richard Berry, "LL" may be the most recorded rock song ever.
Janis Heaphy Durham, a former VP of advertising at the LA Times, may have a bestseller with her book about paranormal events after the death of her husband.
"Contrary to rumors circulating on the Internet today," the site says, "Joni...comprehends, she’s alert, and she has her full senses."
William Yardley's hire to cover energy and environment issues in the West from Seattle is funded by the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Fund for Environmental Journalism.
"Print journalism, especially at the local level, is a scary place to be right now."
Decker "will become our signature voice on California politics," says today's memo from the top editors.
A morning roundup of politics, media and place plus some tweets of the day.
The urban search and rescue team has previously gone to Haiti, Japan, New Zealand and the Hurricane Katrina destruction zone.
The iconic 1978 tape made by KLAC's reporter is revived in Sunday's New York Times. Olden is now the Yankee Stadium announcer.
Raffi Hovannisian grew up in LA, a member of the Armenian diaspora in California. His son, the director of "2015," explains why Hovannisian went back to the homeland.
The CicLAvia organization will conduct a national search for an executive director.
P-32 is the first male to successfully disperse from the mountains across the freeway. His sister did it a month earlier.
Hollywood checks are the main target, of course, with an evening reception hosted by Haim Saban and Casey Wasserman.
Corliss wrote about film for Time for 35 years, becoming "perhaps the magazine’s most quoted writer of all time."
The Huntington Library announced it has acquired a full set of Ansel Adams portfolios that the California photographer shot and printed himself between 1948 and 1976 and called "an excellent cross section of my work."
Politics, media, place and a tweet of the day.
First came the almond farmers, then the cantaloupes, then the golf courses — and so on.
Politics, media, place and some tweets of the day.
Before wild animals had cute Twitter accounts, the sighting of a cougar in the hills of LA caused a much different response.
Salinas, the former Telemundo reporter who had an affair with then-mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, had been the local anchor on KRCA-62.
Johanna Maska goes back to 2007 with Obama and has just stepped down as director of press advance. She's the LAT's new veep for marketing and communications.
"Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" says the sign placed on the road into Vegas from LA in 1959. "A luminous diamond stretched like Silly Putty, each letter of 'Welcome' encircled by silver dollars."
Two Pulitzers for the Times -- for television criticism and drought writing -- and the first ever for the Daily Breeze and the Los Angeles News Group.
Plus a few tweets of the day for Monday morning.
Steve Hymon photographs the colorful characters and scenes — and fauna — at the park that gave Westlake its name.
I'll be around schmoozing and signing on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Hope to meet some more of you. Plus Bill Boyarsky, Jon Christensen, Cari Beauchamp and more.
It's the longest-running show on Univision and possibly the longest-running variety show in television history.
Greenery has returned, but few bird species are spotted in the reserve where the Army Corps abruptly tore out trees and habitat in 2012.
I don't know how long the La Salsa on Pacific Coast Highway has been closed. But the man looks lonely.
The lead blogger for many years at Mayor Sam's Sister City died Wednesday after a visit to the dentist.
Lopez says she is going to grad school fulltime. Alex Ben Block among those leaving the Hollywood Reporter, report says.
Inmate Elana Pritchard's cartoons in LA Weekly of the indignities and shortages in LA County's women's jail led to changes.
The former LA home of the Bank of Italy is on the way to becoming a hip hotel.
Garcetti has his night, but was anybody listening. Is Hollywood divided on Clinton or what? Politico to launch California Playbook.
Last week's emergency fund drive was just what it sounds like — full survival mode, says an analysis in OC Weekly.
During the night he left the Los Feliz crawl space where he waited out the media scrum. The cougar has been tracked to a Griffith Park canyon where he is fine.
"When a Man Loves a Woman" "raised the bar for soul balladeering for all time," the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wrote. Sledge died today in Baton Rouge.
As of Tuesday morning the cat may have moved on from Glendower Avenue.
The Los Angeles cartoonist posted his take on the killing in South Carolina of another unarmed black man and the unmasking of the police cover-up.
Sunday afternoon in Mid-City. Photo: LA Observed...
It's David Weinberg, a reporter at "Marketplace" and creator of the Random Tape podcast.
Bob Pool, the recently retired Los Angeles Times staff writer, posted a Twitter photo today of the former Daily News headquarters in Woodland Hills being razed.
Hillary Clinton woos reporters. Baquet, Baron and Beutner. KPCC hiring a political reporter. Daily News after Orlov. Plus more.
Investigators hired by the church tracked the defector father of David Miscavige for 18 months, the story says. Miscavige denies it.
The Dodgers first baseman clubbed three home runs on Wednesday night and has five already this season.
Laventhol created the Washington Post Style section and came to the Times through Newsday.
The video is not only safe for work, it's safe for children. "Can I get a little censorship outrage here?" the publisher of Pasadena's Prospect Park Books asks.
If you remember the names Ralphie Valladares and Shirley Hardman, this post is for you. Whoa, Nellie!
Stan Freberg had one of those Los Angeles careers. "The first great genius of American musical satire," says Harry Shearer.
Nothing he can say about gender issues would trump his participation in the "cultural crime" of Kardashian hype.
People on the street in DTLA aren't sold yet on the new parking signs, but a writer at CityLab loves them. Here's why.
The color-colded grids are supposed to be simpler and more logical. That doesn't mean that people like them.
Désirée van Hoek says people ask why "a relatively wealthy, white girl from Amsterdam" spends her summers in LA taking photos of the poor and homeless.
Driving in LA is an art that requires intuition, patience and a sense of the topography, Meghan Daum writes.
Expect a day of rain on Tuesday with snow above 4,500 feet. NWS expects about up to an inch of rain.
A report by the Columbia school of journalism says Rolling Stone's epic screw up "is a story of journalistic failure that was avoidable." Inside: writer Sabrina Erdely's statement.
The Padres make another big trade Sunday that has some picking San Diego to be better than the Dodgers, who start with the sport's biggest payroll. Plus: Ozzie Smith's backflip.
Vin Scully had to announce another death in his Dodger family on Sunday, the day before the season opens at Dodger Stadium.
LA's oldest Jewish synagogue building is now used for prayer by many kinds of congregations. That's not by accident.
KCRW's Lisa Napoli did a ride-along through the downtown Arts District recently with resident photographer Melissa Richardson Banks.
Mantle marked the occasion with a live broadcast in front of an audience in KPCC's Crawford Family Forum
The City Council has paid dearly to get some of the pending liabilities off its docket. They might still try to make you pay for their sidewalk damage.
Gov. Brown orders the state's first-ever 25% cut in water use as the winter ends with essentially no snowpack. "This is the new normal,” Brown says. “We will learn how to cope with this.”
Local surfers who are observant Muslims and female and the challenges they face, tonight on 'SoCal Connected.' Plus orcas, an urban farm and Hollyhock House.
As April Fools Day stories go in alt weeklies, this one's pretty good.
Clinton fundraises in LA
Jim Henson Studios on La Brea became a presidential campaign stop on Thursday.
Brown declares disaster area
The natural gas leak above Porter Ranch now qualifies for various government actions. Story
Performing arts with cheer
Donna Perlmutter closes out 2015 with productions downtown and on the Westside.
