Students, teachers and colleagues are mourning the loss of a beloved Central California high school sports coach who died of injuries sustained in a bicycle accident.
A woman whose body was found on the sand in Newport Beach has been identified as a 20-year-old Bellflower resident, and police are calling her death suspicious.
Call it Rand's Stand: A 13-hour stall tactic on the Senate floor that thrust a tea party hero back into the national spotlight — a real-life "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
Ground-piercing radar sensor aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter helped make a 3-D map of the plains along the Martian equator and the channels below the surface.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith may be best known for his appearance in videos. He was sitting next to bin Laden when the al-Qaida leader took credit for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Scattered showers are in front of a stronger, low-pressure area entering the region Thursday afternoon, bringing a chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours and even hail.
A 32-year veteran of the Costa Mesa Police Department, detective Mike Delgadillo, 57, died of injuries he suffered when his car slammed into a concrete pillar supporting an overpass.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, a move that sparked a furious Pyongyang to threaten a nuclear strike against the United States.
A 7-minute recording, in which a nurse refused a 911 dispatcher's pleas to administer CPR, caused national outrage. The woman's family said she did not want to be resuscitated.
U.S. worker productivity shrank in the final three months of last year, mostly because of temporary factors that dragged down growth. Productivity is the amount of output per hour of work.
The U.S. trade deficit widened in January, reflecting a big jump in oil imports and a drop in exports.The Commerce Department said Thursday that the deficit rose to $44.4 billion, an increase of 16.5 percent from December.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell to a seasonally adjusted 340,000 last week. The Labor Department says applications fell 7,000 in the week ended March 2.
This week, the L.A. City Council has committed to funding the operations and maintenance of a proposed downtown L.A. streetcar for the next three decades.
A brand new Star Wars movie is only two short years away, and it looks like Luke, Leia and Han have all signed on to join in the fun — and revive their careers.
Kelly Osbourne was taken to an L.A. hospital after collapsing on the set of "Fashion Police," which she co-hosts with Joan Rivers, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos.
The Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University examines how the mayoral candidates performed among ethnic groups and age categories.
Should L.A. host the Olympics again? Mayor Villaraigosa thinks so, sending a letter to the USOC officially declaring L.A.’s interest in hosting the 2024 Olympics.
Seven inmates serving life sentences on Third Strike convictions had their sentences reduced Thursday thanks to Prop 36. They'll be released from state prison soon.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art sent a formal bid on Feb. 24 to the Museum of Contemporary Art in a move to acquire both of the museum's downtown L.A. locations.
That marks a 41-percent increase from 2007, said the American Diabetes Association, and is attributable to the growing number of people living with the disease.
Supporters and opponents of a huge railyard project pack a hearing at the Port of LA as harbor commissioners weigh approval of the 163-acre, $500 million initiative.
Asian Americans have their own priorities for immigration reform - Southern California Public Radio More on how immigration is not just a Latino issue: Asian Americans have their own concerns as they await immigration reform legislation, among them endless visa backlogs affecting would-be Asian immigrants and laws that have led to the deportation of many Southeast Asians who arrived legally.
Larry is joined by KPCC film critics Andy Klein, Henry Sheehan, and Charles Soloman to review the week’s new film releases including Oz the Great and Powerful, War Witch, Dead Man Down, and more. TGI-FilmWeek!
California has banned driving while using a hand-held cellphone since July 2008. Is technology or behavioral modification the key to ending distracted driving?
The Navy wants to increase the number of training activities off the coast of Camp Pendleton and San Diego. Tomorrow, the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet will propose details of underwater exercises, but environmental advocacy groups warn that sound waves of sonars cause deadly harm to marine mammals.
Senator Rand Paul led a nearly 13-hour filibuster in the U.S. Senate yesterday. He began during proceedings to confirm John Brennan as CIA Director, but Paul's protest also unrelentingly asked President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to address extrajudicial killings of American citizens.
In the wake of Tuesday’s election, L.A. could soon be without any women on its 15-member city council. It's possible that in a few months, only one will be a woman.
The once powerful number two in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is retiring. Embattled Undersheriff Paul Tanaka will step down August first, amid allegations he condoned deputy violence against inmates inside LA County jails. That alleged abuse sparked a widespread FBI investigation. For more on Tanaka's departure, we turn to KPCC's Frank Stoltze.
Outside the jails, there's been a spike in the number of parolees going rogue. Data released yesterday shows that more than 2,000 paroled sex offenders have gone missing after they removed their GPS tracking devices. That's a 15 percent jump since California's re-alignment law took effect.
Here to discuss what might be ahead for the City of LA in the wake of Measure A's failure is Bob Stern, former president of the LA-based Center for Governmental Studies.
We’re always told that a cheery outlook is the path to long life, but a new German study published in this month’s journal Psychology and Aging finds that pessimism leads to positive health benefits because Debby Downers tend to take more precautions, fewer risks.
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Adrian Florido, Fronteras Desk | Take Two
Children of Mexican immigrants are going to college in record numbers, but they see themselves differently from earlier generations of Mexican-Americans. From the Fronteras Desk, Adrian Florido reports.
The Lifeline program gives discounted landline phone service to nearly 1.5 million poor people in the state. But starting this week, cell phones are now an option, too. That's good news for a specific segment of the population: the homeless.
"... the bomb shelter is an absolute time capsule: still stocked with old magazines, bunks, sleeping bags and medications. I told them to keep it in case of imminent Zombie Apocalypse. You're more than welcome to visit..."
