Thanksgiving weekend spending shot up nearly 13 percent from last year, and there's more time between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year for people to shop.
Ahmed Jama won't give up on Mogadishu. In fact, he's leading the city's cultural revival, one dish at a time, by offering residents and visitors a taste of Somali cuisine and hospitality.
Known as "Dollar Bill" Jefferson after $90,000 was found in his freezer, former Democratic representative William Jefferson is now set to stay in jail until 2023.
The answer could significantly restrict employer liability in racial and sexual harassment cases. Or, some business organizations say, it could result in frivolous litigation.
There are clever names for many of the holiday season's shopping days. Maybe the Wednesday after some of these days should be named for the bills that will come in?
Drivers of the Sepulveda Pass may want to find an alternate route this week. Full closures between Montana Avenue and Church Lane are set to begin at 9 p.m. Monday.
After 86 years, LA will no longer have a tennis tournament. It's being sold to investors in Bogota, Colombia, continuing a trend of domestic tournaments going abroad.
Lego makes about 19 billion plastic bricks, figures and gears for building things. But sometimes 19 billion isn't enough. So a Seattle man makes Lego-compatible parts.
Former mayor says he'll now seek support directly from union leaders, but they maintain city employees are already paying plenty into their retirement.
The U.S. Department of Education announced finalists in the Race to the Top grant competition that gives $400 million to school districts. L.A. Unified won't be one.
The Orange County law enforcement official announced on Monday that she's been diagnosed with breast cancer. Hutchens said she'll remain on the job through her treatment.
San Francisco General Hospital last week sought permission from a U.S. Bankruptcy Court to seek $1.2 million in medical reimbursements from the Dodgers' insurers.
L.A. floats its future on the Soylent buoyancy of recycled imagination, but did you know the plastic fantasy of yesterday's Tomorrowland actually sells today for $.15 cents a pound?
A former campaign treasurer who stole $7 million from her clients over a 12-year period should be sentenced to 97 months in prison, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Potential candidates for the Los Angeles City Council’s Sixth District must reside in the district beginning Jan. 5, 2013, the City Clerk’s Office announced Monday.
Today is Monday, Nov. 26 and headlines include LA's trash in the Central Valley, the Public Works president on leave, and a possible parcel tax for urban runoff.
The helicopter landed at the Riverside County airport and was refueling when the aircraft exploded. Shrapnel from the explosion punctured the side of a hangar.
It’s the stuff of wartime spy thrillers -- the body of a secret agent is found under mysterious circumstances, with a coded message that defies cracking by experts.
Alan Eisenstock’s "Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made" follows how two kids, from Ocean Springs, Mississippi who remade ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’
Art Laboe was recently inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. After decades on the air, he still gives shout-outs on behalf of listeners. KPCC's Vanessa Romo reports.
While U.S. and Mexican authorities have been reluctant to work together in the past, but the arrest of Jose Saenz points to an improved relationship between the two. Here to talk about...
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi meets with members of the Supreme Judiciary Council to discuss decrees he announced last week, giving him sweeping authority.
Jay and Staci Baird are using various social media outlets to help them spread the word and ultimately find a prospective birth mother for an 'open adoption.'
In these days when a birth mother can chose parents for her baby on the web and be an active part of her child's life, is the trauma associated with adoption over?
John Horn of the Los Angeles Times joins the show to give us a look ahead at the most anticipated films of the holiday season. Also, we tells us about how the box office did over the...
More questions are being raised about the safety of energy drinks like Monster and 5-Hour Energy.Those brands have exploded in popularity in recent years, but health officials warn...
It's been three weeks now since the so-called Superstorm hit the east coast. Sandy was blamed for more than 130 deaths and causing approximately $50 billion worth of damage.The country...
