Transportation officials will mark the opening of an HOV connector linking I-5 and SR-14. Car pool drivers can change freeways without coasting into regular lanes.
Health officials say flu season in L.A. County seems average so far – but Orange County has already seen two deaths, and officials are concerned about more.
Zolpidem, the active ingredient in many sleep aids, stays in the body longer and can make people drowsy the next day. The FDA is ordering companies to change the labeling.
At most cafes, a customer buys a drink or food to hang out. A Russian entrepreneur wants to change that: At Clockface Cafes, money buys time. Everything else is free.
The president might do such things as bolster the federal database on gun buyers and order stepped-up prosecution of felons and others barred from buying weapons.
One of the NFL's best and fiercest players for nearly two decades, Seau had a degenerative brain disease linked to other suicides when he took his life last May.
Check our listing of the politicians and organizations throwing their weight behind the candidates vying to be the city's next mayor. Check back for updates!
Manufacturers of Ambien, as well as certain other medications containing zolpidem, were ordered Thursday by the FDA to lower the recommended dose by half — for women.
A loss would have meant that money earned since 1999 would have had to be shared with the creators' heirs. Here’s a look at some of Superman's big box office portrayals.
Eric Garcetti has the bulk of entertainment industry dollars that have been donated in the mayor's race. His main rival, Wendy Greuel, has about one-third.
The Kings hosted a news conference to kick off their 2012-13 season. It's not 2012, you say? Technicalities — the lockout's over, and the NHL is getting ready to play.
Spanning the disbelief spectrum from disappointment to outrage, here is an exhaustive collection of snubees. Which film do you think deserved a shot at best picture?
One 16-year old student was shot and taken to a hospital by helicopter and is in critical, but stable condition. A teacher convinced the student with the shotgun to surrender.
The proposed $97.6 billion general fund budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year wipes out years of deficits, includes a surplus and puts more money into public education.
Border Patrol beefs up California coast enforcement - Reuters From the story: "In the past two years, agents have apprehended some 1,300 people, seized more than 200 vessels and recovered...
Border Patrol beefs up California coast enforcement - Reuters From the story: "In the past two years, agents have apprehended some 1,300 people, seized more than 200 vessels and recovered...
The CHP has reopened Interstate 5 through the Grapevine. An inch or two of snow is possible in the mountains, with the level dropping as low as 2,000 feet.
Today is Thursday, Jan. 10 and headlines include Hilda Solis' return to Los Angeles, a drop in homicides for the Sheriff's Department, and new Republican leadership.
The new film “Gangster Squad” takes a fictionalized look at the LAPD vice division of the 1940s. The details are given dramatic license, but it's based in reality.
Two of the biggest names in hedge funds are squaring off over the L.A.-based nutritional supplements maker Herbalife. One says it's a pyramid scheme. The other says it isn't.
For a long time geologists believed it was unlikely that a massive quake in say, San Diego could reach all the way to San Francisco.But a new study published by the journal Nature says...
For years, Yosemite National Park authorities have been looking for ways to balance the interests of its 4-million annual visitors with preserving the environment. Last week the park unveiled how it plans to do so.
By the end of the year, there will be a new option for Californian's shopping for health care coverage. It's called a Health Insurance Exchange, and California was the first state in...
Although one goal of President Obama's Affordable Care Act was to rein in the high cost of health insurance, dozens of health plans continue to hike up rates. In California, premiums on insurance coverage rose almost 19%. And although California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones calls some of the increases unreasonable, he admits that he has no authority to stop them.
Today on Good Morning America, it was revealed that former USC and San Diego Chargers star Junior Seau had the degenerative brain disease called CTE when he committed suicide by shooting...
Today, Governor Jerry Brown will unveil his plans to close a $1.9 billion budget gap. That may sound like a lot of money, but $2 billion is practically peanuts compared with the fiscal...
Fishermen are reporting huge catches of Humboldt squid off the coast of Orange County, which can measure up to 6 feet long and weigh up to a 100 pounds.
The big movie news is the Oscar nominations, and by now, you probably already know the big winner was a movie about a big guy, "Lincoln."Daniel Day Lewis, as Abraham Lincoln, received...
