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Higher education reporter Larry Gordon, foreign desk editor Paul Feldman and Washington bureau law enforcement specialist Richard A. Serrano all type -30- today.
For the first time in a long while, crime is up in all categories and in all police divisions across Los Angeles.
Author Ed Humes returns to his Register roots to collaborate on a long tale of how Orange County authorities messed up the prosecution of the confessed Seal Beach salon murderer.
To bring in web readers over the holidays, the magazine is re-running eight of editor Mary Melton's favorite stories from the past 14 years. Today: Amy Wallace's new fake breasts.
The first media op of the season was today. Water content across the range is at 108 percent of normal.
These are the first criminal charges Cosby has faced despite complaints by more than 40 women that the actor sexually assaulted them, often after giving them drugs.
All the junkyard cars are gone from U-Pick Parts and Aadlen Brothers Auto Wrecking in Sun Valley, after 53 years serving car owners and Hollywood.
In addition to five winners and a special honor for LA Radio.com's Don Barrett, the LA chapter elected new board members.
On the third try, SpaceX brings back the Falcon 9 and lands it on a pad at Cape Canaveral. Video inside.
The father of City Attorney Mike Feuer died today. His talks with students at Castle Heights Elementary School were featured in a Steve Lopez column this year.
The downtown civic push to (re)reinvent Pershing Square took a step forward today with the naming of four final design concepts from which the actual plan will be chosen.
The family-owned store that opened in 1957 was sold just five months ago. Lots of other changes coming to Westwood Village soon.
Cub of P-23 may be the only survivor from her spring litter. Watch the video and hear the young cougar squeak.
Rep. Brad Sherman analyzes the language used, the likelihood that the writer was Muslim, and whether LA officials were right to act.
"It’s the climate equivalent of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico," the Guardian says. More than 3,000 Angelenos remain out of their homes.
LA Unified closed all of its schools based on a crude email threat that many experts dismissed almost immediately as a probable hoax. Schools are open today.
Superintendent Ramon Cortines and other officials said a credible electronic threat was received that threatened multiple schools.
An untagged male cougar believed to be two to three years old was hit by traffic about 7:30 this morning.
Book critic David Ulin announced on Facebook that he is taking the buyout offer from the Los Angeles Times. Effective Tuesday.
Deputy business editor and a Metro investigative reporter land with the news service's Los Angeles bureau.
Kuehl gets the last word after one of the regulars calls the Jewish supervisor an "anti-Semitic scumbag."
"If Los Angeles had another 100 Leonard Shapiros we'd be in a lot better shape than we are today," his wife wrote in a 1984 letter to the editor.
Train versus truck after an illegal left turn at 7th Street and Colorado about noon Thursday.
Jack Griffin, the CEO of Tribune Publishing, today addressed the chatter about his company possibly selling the Times and getting smaller.
'My first recollection of the Los Angeles Times is my dad parking his delivery truck outside our house,' says the paper's departing college football writer.
Larry Mantle posted that his friend and KPCC's longtime morning anchor is off the air facing a "serious health issue."
The Wall Street Journal says Tribune Publishing is crafting an offer for the OC Register, and some in the LA Times newsroom expect news from the CEO in the morning.
The movie that all your journalist friends love is this generation's "All the President's Men."
This training film for parking officers shows a lot of downtown street scenes.
Editor Davan Maharaj gives kudos for LAT coverage of the San Bernardino shootings.
He is three to four years old and the biggest Santa Monica Mountains lion that scientists have tracked since P-1. Now the question is: where did he come from?
Weiland, the singer with Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died at age 48. He was a paste-up guy at the LA Daily Journal in the early 1990s.
Writer Geoff Manaugh has posted at BLDGBLOG his observation that from above, the shapes of blocks, yards and even specific homes reveal the existence of old streets we can't see anymore. And more.
The LAT flooded the zone, broke news online and had 29 different contributors on shootings stories in the print paper this morning.
"It’s time to push ahead with the reorganization," Davan Maharaj writes. The Times also announced a new hire for the Dodgers beat.
NPR series looks at aerospace jobs and the garment industry.
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.
