Louis Gossett Jr. won an Oscar for 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and an Emmy for 'Roots.' He died Thursday night in Santa Monica, his nephew told the Associated Press.
A generation that was supposed to have dismissed baseball has found its way back to it. Baseball isn't dying, but it could have been. Its revival required a game plan.
Bowls of soup, bowls of herb, stacks of newspapers and a salon of sorts with wife Natasha add up to the perfect Sunday for the comedian, actor and prolific art collector.
The Shark Lab tracks more than 200 sharks along California's coasts through a program initially set up in 2018 with more than $3 million in state funding.
It remains unclear whether former Dodgers All-Star Julio Urías will ever pitch in the majors again as he awaits a decision on potential misdemeanor charges.
The trio of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman are showing the rest of MLB what they're capable of delivering for the Dodgers this season.
Approving two proposed killer whale species could transform how they're conserved. It would also turn a new page in one of the strangest chapters in marine mammal history.
Californians have left millions of dollars in unclaimed tax refunds from 2020 with the Internal Revenue Service. And if they don't act soon, they'll donate that money to the federal government.
Estrada is the public face of U.S. law in Southern California. To hear him so effortlessly code-switch struck me as bold yet smart. What kind of fed was hip enough to do that? I caught up to him to ask why he decided to be more pointed en…
Nearly 900 unhoused people died in 2023 in Los Angeles, a 23% drop compared to the previous year, according to data released Thursday by City Controller Kenneth Mejia's office. But many people are dying from drugs.
The abortion-pill case shows the gap between the Supreme Court's far-right and merely conservative justices. A second Trump presidency could move the bench further right.
The term 'traditional families' is linked to a skewed perspective promoted by the religious right. Real biblical families are connected in ways other than genetics and blood.
In an effort to slow the proliferation of synthetic opioid-related deaths, California will begin offering free fentanyl-testing strips to eligible organizations across the state that ask for them, the state Department of Health Care…
Metro's top security official was fired two days after she filed a report with the inspector general. Gina Osborn's attorney says they are looking at the possibility of a class-action lawsuit.
Fast-food chains plan to raise prices in response to the state's $20 minimum wage for their workers, potentially affecting a swath of L.A. that relies on the eateries.
Hollywood talent agencies and producers have met with AI companies, including ChatGPT maker OpenAI, to learn about how their technologies could be used in entertainment.
For fans who worry that a volume comprising six stories and a novella won't serve up the deeper delights of his novels, prepare for what may be Towles' best book yet.
Relatives of Cesar Chavez decry the Kennedy campaign's use of the late labor icon's image. The candidate's father, RFK, was an ally of the farmworkers union Chavez co-founded.
It pays to rattle more, bite more often and inject more toxin on an island where rattlesnakes could be trampled or stomped to death by imported goats, pigs, bison and deer, according to a study published in the scientific journal Toxins.
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the closure of the Port of Baltimore this week could have far-reaching implications all the way across the country for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to several experts.
Louisa Harland stars as a highwaywoman fighting for justice in Sally Wainwright's new series, with 'Ted Lasso's' Nick Mohammed as the pixie who gives her superpowers.