When a relative signs up for Medicare, it is often perplexing and unnerving for the rest of the family who may have grown used to cushy employer-sponsored coverage.
Two scientists discovered that every cell in our body can reinvent itself and become any other cell type. These stem cells have vast potential for drug development for many diseases.
The question is whether tapping into publicly available data — Twitter and news feeds and blogs — can help to forecast the future faster and more precisely.
As the Berlin Wall was coming down, East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, tore up millions of files. Now, the array of secret papers collected by the Stasi is still in huge demand.
The $20 million grant is to battle obesity in minority neighborhoods. It aims to make it easier for people to drop sedentary habits and embrace healthy living.
Most elderly drivers give up the keys only when their child or grandchild intervenes. Social workers say family members must look for changes in their parents' driving behavior.
We've got lots of what I call day-long nerdfests this week in LA on subjects near and dear to my heart, environmental risk management and water policy. I'm not going to be able to get...
Another L.A. snapshot from blogger Calvin Ho's Migrantography, a photo blog capturing little slices of immigrant life in the United States and elsewhere. In the Koreatown Galleria supermarket...
Another deal in the newspaper business — involving an L.A.-based private equity firm — should remind Angelenos that the L.A. Times has an uncertain fate.
Bell has named a new acting police chief as part of its continuing effort to reform local government after eight former officials were indicted on corruption charges.
October is underway, meaning it's time to see who has had the longest wait for a family-sponsored immigrant visa this month. Twenty years, twenty three years? The line doesn't budge...
An undercover FBI agent has denied accusations he spent U.S. taxpayer dollars on prostitutes in the Philippines during an international weapons trafficking probe.
The 100-plus acre site is known as La Paz. It is located in Keene, near Bakersfield, in the Central Valley. It is also the headquarters of the United Farm Workers.
Obama and Romney on the issues: Immigration - Washington Post A point-by-point comparison of where the two presidential candidates stand on deportation, skilled foreign workers, the...
As Gov. Jerry Brown takes action to try and stop rising gas prices, a new record high is set across the state. Analysts say it will get worse before it gets better.
Deputies tried to contact the bicyclist because they believed he had a gun, authorities said. The gun has not been found and details have not been made public.
It used to be, if you went to public school, you only had one choice — go to the school nearest your home. Now students and their parents have a variety of options.
Today is Monday, Oct. 8 and headlines include the passing of former Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally, the nasty turn of the city attorney's race, and sinking trees over at LAPD.
Prop. 36 on the November ballot proposes changing who qualifies for a sentence of life in prison based on their past crimes under the state's Three Strikes law.
Gender discrimination became legally prohibited following the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but that didn’t (and doesn’t) mean that such mistreatment was eradicated.
As social media sites like Facebook become increasingly popular, our social lives are becoming increasingly digital. Does that effect our physical well-being?
For centuries after the Battle of Bosworth Field and the end of the War of the Roses, the slain body of King Richard III went missing after a hasty burial.
Sports fans have the Olympics and the Superbowl; film buffs have the Oscars, music lovers the Grammys. But for the followers of dark matter, single-molecule spectroscopy and nuclear hormone receptors, Nobel Prize week is the most exciting time of the year.
As we heard earlier, Governor Mitt Romney is criticizing the Obama administration for not doing enough to curb the influence of Al-Qaeda around the globe.
These days, some six-million American jobs actually depend in some way on trade with Mexico. From the Fronteras Desk, Jude Joffe-Block reports on the complex collaborations between...
As gas prices soar, Governor Jerry Brown will allow a shift to so-called winter blend gasoline. But what does that mean? And what's really behind price spike?
According to a House Intelligence report released this morning, some of the biggest threats to national security today comes from two Chinese telecom companies.
Dr. Foster was a black man on his way to LA. He'd just left the South, but not segregation, and as one sympathetic motel owner told him, "If we let you in, all the other motel owners would ostracize us."
