George L. Pla is the president and CEO of Cordoba Corporation, the Southern California-based civil engineering firm that planned Endeavour’s journey on city streets.
Three undercover LAPD narcotics officers were driving just west of downtown early Thursday when an SUV pulled up alongside their unmarked car, and fired a shot.
A candlelight ceremony Thursday night will honor the eight shooting victims, a day before the first anniversary of the worst mass killing in Orange County history.
Patients at two Southland health facilities are among those that may have received potentially contaminated medication linked to a rare form of fungal meningitis.
Developer Rick Caruso ended the speculation on his political future today by announcing that he will not run for mayor of Los Angeles in the 2013 race.
This fall, California voters will take up capital punishment for the first time in decades—an issue where there's no unified voice from law enforcement or victims.
Everyone should be interested in this because it affects them at the level of their bodies — what we eat, the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, all that.
Students from Galileo Academy in Victorville are involved in a bus collision with a U-Haul truck. The crash injured 13 children and the bus driver, but authorities say no one sustained critical injuries.
We're curating the best and most interesting of what's being said about the vice presidential debates by our staff and the world on social media. Follow along!
To mark National Coming Out Day more than half a dozen of the state's congressional Democrats posed for pictures to show their opposition to Proposition 8.
When the candidates for Vice President debate Thursday in Kentucky, the U.S. economy isn't all they'll talk about, but it will be a big part of the night.
About $71,000 separate Councilman Eric Garcetti and Controller Wendy Greuel in the 2013 race for mayor of Los Angeles. Each has $2.8 million in the bank.
In addition to releasing state Academic Performance Index numbers today, the California Department of Education is debuting an easy to read School Quality Snapshot.
Academic Performance Index scores are up 10 points throughout California, and a majority of schools scored the state goal for the first time in 13 years.
Academic Performance Index scores for public schools are out. California education officials say most schools reached the coveted 800-point goal for the first time.
Report shows little harm from Baldwin Hills fracking. Environmental and community groups are still reviewing it, but they've expressed skepticism about the findings.
Today is Thursday, Oct. 11 and headlines include approval of the USC Village project, more campaign money in the mayor's race, and a look at San Fernando.
A crane was being used to move the 3,000-pound steel beam from a truck when it crushed the construction worker. It may cause delays for the morning commute.
Gang violence in LA has plummeted in the past couple of years, which many attribute to the city’s anti-gang strategy. Now, the city's hoping to expand its reach.
View some of the TV ads both parties have produced as part of a multi-million dollar campaign aimed at protecting incumbents and attacking vulnerable opponents.
In her new book “Netflixed,” financial and media writer Gina Keating details the story of how one company transformed the movie-watching habits of a generation, and gave Americans even more reason to stay home on Saturday nights.
Vice presidential debates are traditionally surrogate affairs, with each candidate for VPOTUS trying first to do no harm to their political party’s campaign with a scant few weeks before Election Day. But the stakes are higher this year.
Issa Rae, creator of the web series "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl," talks about her popular web series, her latest project and how she comes up with the situations in the show.
This week the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded, but for weeks, economists, gamblers and laymen have laid their money on the line in hopes they can guess the tomorrow's winner...
Book critic David Kipen, also the founder of the bookstore/lending library Libros Schmibros, joins the show to discuss the Nobel Prize in Literature and the finalists in the National Book Awards.
Tonight Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan take to the stage in Danville, Kentucky for the one and only vice-presidential debate. The debate gives the two a chance to...
We're doing a live, 2-hour special Off-Ramp this weekend, following the Shuttle Endeavour as it parades through South LA. If you're along the route and want to help, call-in between noon and 2pm Saturday. Since the show is live, the podcast will be sent out sometime Saturday. Please don't freak out!
The LA Times Architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne writes, "In parading Endeavour along our boulevards, LA is in some striking ways reenacting one of the oldest public celebrations in Western urban history, the Roman triumph."
