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An L.A. book fair demonstrates the power of Spanish to give a sense of meaning, history and beauty to the lives of those Angelenos who speak it.Deep inside my writerly brain, down where my earliest memories reside, there is a voice. It speaks to me in Spanish.

Los Angeles police are on the lookout for Nick Stahl, the actor who played John Connor in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," after he was reported missing by his wife.

A San Clemente woman remains hospitalized with severe burns she suffered after rocks collected from an Orange County beach ignited in the pocket of her cargo shorts, authorities said.

Boxer Manny Pacquiao was banned from appearing at L.A.'s Grove mall after he was erroneously quoted about his views on gays.The Grove shopping center became the unlikely battleground in the debate over gay marriage after it banned boxer Manny Pacquiao from the mall in response to an interview he gave in Los Angeles.

Before her death, grandmother told family she wanted to be interred in Nicaragua. Instead, she was buried in Whittier in another woman's clothes.Mercedes Adilia Rodriguez's wishes were precise and meaningful: Her casket would be closed during her funeral, and she refused to be buried in the chilly earth of a Southern California cemetery. Instead, f […]

The contribution to the new Air and Space Center that will house the space shuttle Endeavour comes from a foundation chaired by Lynda Oschin, wife of the late philanthropist Samuel Oschin.The California Science Center has received what officials describe as an "extraordinary" financial contribution to the new Air and Space Center that will house th […]

All are suspected of belonging to the alleged Jump Out Boys secret clique that celebrates officer-involved shootings. Investigators are trying to determine if they committed serious misconduct.Seven deputies from the Los Angeles County sheriff's gang unit have been placed on leave on suspicion that they belong to a secret clique that celebrates shooting […]

Two members of the Palillos gang face life in prison for their roles in the kidnapping and strangling of two men whose bodies were later dissolved in lye.SAN DIEGO —Two members of a Mexican organized crime group that terrorized border communities were found guilty Wednesday of taking part in the strangling deaths of two men whose bodies were later diss […]

A paralegal who was brought to the United States as a young child has been certified by the State Bar of California, raising broader questions about licensing illegal immigrants in other professions.California's agency that licenses lawyers wants to admit an illegal immigrant to practice law, an unprecedented request that the state's highest court […]

An analysis of driving data finds that Los Angeles' electric vehicle drivers travel farther and charge more often in public and at off-peak hours.The growing number of electric vehicle drivers in Los Angeles are behaving differently from the national norm. Not only are EV drivers in L.A. traveling farther than those in other cities, but they charge thei […]

"Dancing With The Stars" bid farewell to a pair of celebrities on Thursday as the show held a double elimination to quickly get down to a Final Four with two weeks left in this 14th season. We know the names of the dearly departed, but won't spill...

How are California's 18.9 million women and girls measuring up when it comes to bridging the gender gap? Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles recently released a report that pulls together statistics in such key areas as education, income and...

Half a century ago, a newsman began a tenure that led him to become the "most trusted man in America." Walter Cronkite earned that designation in opinion polls over the course of 19 years after he took over as anchor for the evening news broadcast at...

Milton C. Anderson, a one-time high school music teacher in Los Angeles and TV music director, saw a disconnect between the emerging images of young Americans in the 1960s and the kids who had been in his classrooms. Those kids weren't rabble rousers...

It's time for Dodger baseball! But the boys in blue are missing one of their most important figures: the incomparable play-by-play radio and TV announcer Vin Scully. The 84-year-old Scully called in sick for Tuesday's home opener against the Pirates,...

Score another fantastic show for Santa Ana’s recently revamped Observatory – this time from Manhattan-based but Orange County-bred retro-rock duo Cults, whose original booking in the smaller Constellation Room got moved into the venue’s more...

Let's climb inside the Wayback Machine and revisit April 1, 1972. Come on, this was before the '70s took a dark turn toward full-blown disco music mania. Remember what happened that April Fools' Day? Baseball players went on strike. And don't we wish...

Four airlines have moved at Los Angeles International Airport, while two airlines have changed their names. Alaska Airlines moved from Terminal 3 to Terminal 6 on March 20. The airline moves into the terminal following a $271-million renovation that...

Shocking moments held our attention This Week in History. We worried about the worst nuclear accident in the United States. We waited to see if a beloved president would survive an attempt on his life. We mourned the loss of a young, talented singer...

By her own definition, it's been "quite a ride" the past few months for sociologist Amy T. Schalet, author of "Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex." Published in November, her book takes a look at the divergent attitudes and...

Yglesias believes that economic changes have made "acquisition by an existing firm rather than an IPO the best route forward for most growing companies": [T]he basic issue is clearly illustrated by Facebook’s recent $1 billion acquisition of Instagram. There’s just...

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Gustavo Arellano celebrates the Americanization of Mexican food: Tortillas and tamales have long left behind the moorings of immigrant culture and fully infiltrated every level of the American food pyramid, from state dinners at the White House to your local...

The Obama campaign responds to the Rovian onslaught line by line: The Romney campaign stays on message (money quote: "Wait a minute, is this still America?"): Meanwhile, the RNC dwells on energy issues: Gary Johnson's latest here. Previous Ad War...

Picking stocks is among them: Here’s the thing about picking stocks: You can’t. Hard evidence has demonstrated again and again that the human chances of outperforming the market by picking individual stocks is, if anything, lower than that of a...

Today on the Dish, Andrew worried that cultural panic made Romney into the frontrunner (follow-up here and related nastiness here), explained how a terribly sad story from a straight reader brought the need for marriage equality into full relief, got...

A reader writes: Some years ago our beagle - then about age six - started screaming in the middle of the night, so we let her in. The next morning her neck swelled up to about four times its usual...

How Ken Burns understands the stories he tells: The filmmakers reflect on the project: Everyone loves a great story. Stories teach us things, move us emotionally, and form the basis of the way we understand the world. As filmmakers, we’ve...

Noah Berlatsky explains: Marriage has, in the past, been about one man/one woman, just as [Maggie] Gallagher says; it's been an assertion that gender and gender roles are as important as, or even more important than, what you feel in...

Gay rights activist rally in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, on May 17, 2012. Christian activists led by Orthodox priests halted today a rare attempt to stage a small gay pride march in ex-Soviet Georgia, attacking participants and smashing their placards....

Los Angeles Times receives $1-million grant from Ford FoundationLos Angeles TimesThe funds will help The Times expand coverage of key areas, including immigration and ethnic communities in Southern California. The main entrance of the Los Angeles Times building is shown. (Los Angeles Times / April 30, 2012) By James Rainey, ...

Caught On Tape: State Workers Drinking Beer While Earning Your Taxpayer MoneyCBS LocalLOS ANGELES (CBS) — Caltrans has suspended several veteran employees after a CBS2 undercover investigation caught them drinking alcohol while earning your taxpayer money. It comes at the same time that the state has announced California's budget ...

abc7.comRobotic lifeguard 'Emily' can save distressed swimmersabc7.comA robotic lifeguard named Emily is designed to race across the ocean to help a swimmer in distress. (KABC Photo) MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- Emily is a robotic lifeguard that can race across the ocean to help a swimmer in distress.

UCLA student integrates art therapy into non-profit organization that helps ...Daily BruinBy JILLIAN BECK Fourth-year psychobiology student Kendra Knudsen helps Nancy Piedmonte, 52, of West Los Angeles, in an art class at Step Up on Second, a Santa Monica-based nonprofit organization that works with mentally ill individuals.

Proposed 'Conflict and Community in the Modern World' GE requirement ...Daily BruinBy Matthew Malkan and Joseph Manson This week UCLA faculty are voting on whether to require every new undergraduate in the College of Letters and Science starting next fall 2013, to take a general education course in “Conflict and Community in the ...

UPDATE 2: Due to strong interest, FEEDcombine is now available as an open-source project for users who wish to run the script on their own server for their own use. Please send an email to the address below if you'd like your own copy.We have offered the FEEDcombine service for free to users for a number of years, on the understanding that this would no […]