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When police found a plastic, 2-by-3-foot bin at the Fairmont Newport Beach hotel last month, they were looking for drugs. But they found something far different when they reached into the container. As they rummaged inside the plastic tub, they came...

During a day of stop-and-go campaigning for the 2nd District seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, state Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas paused for a little criticism from his campaign manager: You need to do more to toot your own horn. "You have...

The small houses of the Independencia neighborhood climb a hill that rises from the bone-dry Santa Catarina riverbed. Gang graffiti proliferate the higher you go, until they completely cover the cinder-block walls with slogans, threats and declarations....

Not long ago, being a skycap at busy Los Angeles International Airport was a coveted blue-collar job that brought the trappings of middle-class life. With ample tips plus a basic hourly wage, the curbside baggage handlers could buy comfortable homes...

The fantasies of Luis Torres 40 years ago that propelled him and others to empty classrooms and hit the streets have changed not one wit. They romanticized that day by swelling their numbers and their affect on Los Angeles and Mexican America, of which...

Actors Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber welcomed a baby boy into their family on Saturday, Dec. 13. Watts, 40, and Schreiber, 41, have been a couple since 2005. They have another son, Alexander Pete Schreiber, who was born in July of 2007. Watts work...

Fifteen months ago, he was brought in to save Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, which had struggled for decades with patient-care problems. But last Friday, Dr. Bruce Chernof presided over the shutdown of the much smaller entity it had become....

"Killer of Sheep" is a wonder any number of ways, from how it was originally made to its reappearance now in handsomely restored form to its getting its first-ever theatrical release (at the Nuart in West Los Angeles) a full 30 years after it was...

Hal Fishman, the award-winning KTLA-TV Channel 5 news anchor who was a Los Angeles broadcasting fixture for nearly 50 years, died Tuesday, the station announced. He was 75. Fishman died at 3 a.m. at his Brentwood home with his family at his side. He...

The artwork-on-a-shovel that left town eight months ago with Margie J. Reese, Los Angeles' former arts chief, is back in the city-run Watts Towers Arts Center after a detour to Reese's home in Irving, Texas. Last July, an apparently unknowing Mayor...

The county's decision to close Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital is a sad one that will deal a severe blow to the health of the people of South Los Angeles. It is particularly distressing because the establishment of a comprehensive teaching...

This is the fourth in an occasional series of conversations with Southern California activists and intellectuals. -- The evolving place of African Americans in Los Angeles culture and politics is a topic much discussed in the corridors of city...