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"One of the great news producers of all time, anywhere," says Bob Tarlau on Facebook.
In Topanga Canyon in 1963, even the doctors got stoned and took acid. Plus: Sacks in the most colorful green room in town.
The net loss to domestic migration is closer to one million. Which destination state was (again) the most popular?
Flush with new cash from NBC Universal, BuzzFeed is reported to be looking at the former Ford Model T factory across from Stumptown Coffee on Santa Fe Avenue.
Items include Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Daniele Watts, Eric Garcetti, Frank Gehry, Aja Brown, Wes Craven, Serena Wlliams, Jessica Mendoza, Claudia Puig and more.
I'm always glad when Steve Lopez goes back and checks on the busboy who cradled Robert F. Kennedy as he lay wounded on election night in June 1968.
Sacks announced in a February Op-ed piece that he had spreading cancer and was detaching from big world concerns like the Middle East and global warming. "My generation is on the way out…"
Over the quarter-century that he hosted ‘‘Larry King Live,’’ King was always asking his guests, ‘‘What do you think happens when we die?’’
Roughly zero percent of female accounts "had ever shown any kind of activity at all, after the day they were created," analysis of the hacked database finds. Then they realized it was wrong.
Joe Domanick argues that the city's rising poverty and crime rates are related, "coming together in an era of astounding, Third World-like income disparity, declining social services and desperate poverty." And you thought Uber getting into LAX was the big issue of the day.
Right at midnight, unannounced booms from fireworks barraged the coast cities on Santa Monica Bay.
WDBJ photographer Adam Ward, 27, and reporter Alison Parker, 24, were interviewing a chamber of commerce official at a strip mall this morning. The shooter was a former reporter at the Roanoke station.
Jeff Millman is going to work for the effort preparing LA's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Lauren Lipton's reply to a request for free help was beyond frosty. The phrase "the rapacious Ms. Huffington" was written.
The City Council says OK but there are some official hurdles still to jump.
Politics and media moves. New homeless numbers. Stephen Colbert's guests. NYT newsletters. Kirk and Anne Douglas will give it away. And more.
The "Django Unchained" actress and her boyfriend have until tomorrow to write an apology that actually sounds sorry.
Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday signed an executive order ordering departments to report back with ways to reduce traffic deaths in Los Angeles -- to zero.
Memo from the ME for editorial strategy praises coverage of schools, Straight Outta Compton and Taylor Swift. Plus more.
Jerry Brown on "Meet the Press." Toni Atkins on "News Conference." A crossword creator dies. And much more.
Google Doodle honors 125th birthday of the Olympic champion swimmer and father of surfing — the subject of an upcoming biography by David Davis.
Local 53 plans a rally outside the Bundy Drive studios on Thursday in support of Cheryl Bacon, who has been at KTTV for 39 years.
LAPD as guardians not warriors. Cheating in Compton. A tax lien for LAT's Vargas. Balls at MacArthur Park.
Trail cameras have picked up a pack of two adult gray wolves with five pups in Siskiyou County — they call it the Shasta Pack.
Hill will report and comment on TV in the paper, for the web and on Twitter.
Editors re-explain the decision to cut ties with the cartoonist and add new analysis of a disputed LAPD audio tape.
Inspection last month found too many flies, improper food prep and dirty fingernails among other violations. Bon Appetit's top new LA restaurant now has an A.
Dave Lesher named to run start-up CalMatters. News from City Hall and the county, and much more.
City Council members have other ideas on some of the mayor's favorite things. Plus: Calling the pols on setting impossible goals.
Before he left the gang life as a teenager, Sal Martinez did five stints in juvenile hall, was stabbed four times and shot twice.
The magazine gets a second wave of publicity with its choice of the 10 best new restaurants in the U.S.
"Viewers deserve more than having someone on the air for 17 years just disappear," Rubin says, chiding KABC-TV. Plus: Kemp's new Twitter feed.
He heads out today to the Central Valley after last night's Hillary Clinton fundraiser -- which at least one neighbor didn't appreciate.
Timed to today's start of school in LAUSD, the Times is "rededicating itself to coverage of teaching and learning" with Education Matters and new staffers.
Station announces resignation on his official social media accounts. Later in the day his bio dropped off the ABC 7 site.
Grace Slick greets the dawn on Max Yasgur's farm on August 17, 1969. Turn up the sound.
The city's utility overcharged by about $44 million while trying to roll out a new, apparently flawed billing system.
Selfishly I hope he returns. But you know -- maybe it's time we all embrace our lifelong friend in whatever he wants to do.
Veteran news executive Bill Dallman was named Vice President and News Director of KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV, the CBS-owned duopoly in Los Angeles.
For the first time anyone has noticed, the giant trees in Sequoia National Park are showing signs of drought distress. Scientists go for a climb.
An old byline returns to the LA Times. Plus how Hillary Clinton should be more like Trump.
He's also the most influential City Council president since John Ferraro and possibly ever.
Red wiggler worms now help with the composting so less food waste gets sent to landfills.
Quad-copter pilot-photographer Ian Wood is back with another breathtaking video of Los Angeles from the air -- including of the Bullock's Wilshire tower.
Can you help this ex-Marine get her old uniform back? Lots of politics, media and place for a desk-clearing Friday.
What better way to educate Angelenos about the shutdown of a major boulevard than a spoof of SNL's The Californians.
My favorite police blotter item of the summer, from Marina del Rey.
He was the first male lion known to have crossed freeways north out of the Santa Monica Mountains.
You can now drone on for 10,000 characters -- more like Facebook. Tweets still must be short.
The Republican who goes back to the original community college board in LA wants to follow 36 years on the Board of Supervisors with a term on the state Senate.
At $100, it’s the hottest little ticket among Hollywood Democrats because it gives them a first chance to see the former mayor's new Hollywood Hills pad.
A busy day of politics, media and place and another round of Watts riots remembrances.
Hong was a prominent immigration lawyer and community leader through the middle decades of the 20th Century and helped in the move to today's current Chinatown.
Lots and lots of anniversary stories looking back at the riots and how Watts is a different place now. Plus: Rediscovered photos and a black cop's story of racism in the LAPD.
Statewide officials and the county Supes are next. Garcetti is an "earnest booster" who needs to get to the hard work, Times publisher says.
Trump vs. Megyn Kelly but not on Fox. Bernie Sanders in LA today. Amazing ratings for GOP debate but not "True Detective." James Poniewozik to NYT TV beat. Drone racing. And more.
Another VP comes with government experience, the LAT's most senior newsroom staffer takes on a new assignment, and an obit for Larry Stammer.
Channel 11 gets a new general manager but its live-shot gets bombed by a sign about unfair practices at—Fox 11!
At first he mostly saw that it wasn't New York, but the departing West Coast editor of The Architect's Newspaper came to love and respect the LA thing.
"Unfortunately, our concerns are becoming reality," the LAT opinion side says in its latest report card.
Sources tell THR the magazine is close on an "aggressive exposé — more than a year in the works — about the unorthodox reporting tactics" of TMZ and Harvey Levin.
City Hall politics, media items, books news and place notes, including Maria Sharapova at Gjusta.
Reports are that Ontario will reimburse LA for its investment at the airport and settle a lawsuit alleging poor management.
The LA Dodgers' first locally born star left the 1969 game with a sore shoulder and announced his retirement within the week. Some video memories.
Council member Mitch O'Farrell jumped in the new Hollywood pool fully clothed.
Instead of 15 miles from downtown, Sunday's 6-mile route begins in Culver City. Here's the map and some tips to avoid bike and car congestion.
Memo from Tribune Publishing boss celebrates the first year out from under the old Tribune.
Identity theft, manslaughter and driving under the influence were among the convictions of Uber drivers that would bar them driving an LA taxi.
As he approached home plate in another uniform for the first time, Philadelphia fans showered him with love.
Herb Wesson's report card, Ted Rall fights back and new mountain lion cubs in the Santa Monicas. Plus more.
This new endangered wolf, in a state that supposedly hasn't had native wolves since the 1920s, is untagged. But there is a trail camera photo.
Politics, media and place with a little news thrown in. Catching up from the weekend.
In his new memoir about surfing, the New Yorker staff writer remembers the hot and dry, white, inland place that spawned him. We help him a little with the origin story of Tarzana.
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.
