Sheriff John Scott sent out a memo Wednesday informing department supervisors that the closed-in, climate-controlled, members-only patio where selected sheriff's officials could smoke cigars with each ...

Chuck Philips has talked about this a little before, most notably last year when he wrote that the Los Angeles Times should not have fully retracted his 2008 story naming names in the murder of rapper ...

Throughout the history of American newspapers are examples of editors and headlines affixing catchy names to notorious crimes and criminals. This is one of the few things that newspapers do that can ...

This past September, David Davis contributed at our Native Intelligence blog a lovely piece on the legacy and death of Theo Ehret, his friend who for many years was the house photographer at the ...

Ian White, son of Charles White, at the opening of his father's exhibition at LACMA. Photo by Judy Graeme. Below: 'Sojourner Truth and Booker T. Washington,' Charles White 1943. Two exhibits featuring ...

If you haven't yet seen the season finale of "Mad Men" and intend to, you might want to skip this item. TV Guide's Michael Schneider says at his blog Franklin Avenue that he has figured out the ...

This is a day for those who ever worked at KNBC in Burbank to think, wow, they are leaving the old newsroom and studios. Tonight's shows are the final KNBC news broadcasts from the corner of Olive and ...

A 'Marketplace" reporter made the drive out to the city of San Fernando to do a piece on the upset over closure of the town's once-popular J.C. Penney store. The ...

Robinson had been the managing editor at KCBS-TV Channel 2 in the early 1990s and had also worked at KTTV/FOX-TV Channel 11. He won eight Emmy awards during a 22-year television career as a producer ...

Gary caught up with Kwame Anthony Appiah, the philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist, outside the Central Library.

One of the last 150-year-old Moreton Bay fig trees in the Old Plaza downtown fell after the rains this winter.

Ken Gallacher, a 20-year KFI guy who does the news during the morning show with Bill Handel, is retiring from the station at the end of the month, says LARadio.com. (* Alex Sullivan too: The KNX 1070 ...