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Rep. Adam Schiff took part in a Saturday morning media event at Silver Lake Reservoir and heard lots of words of support for his watchdogging of President Trump and the Russian election meddling ...

Former Los Angeles TV news executive Bob Long died Monday at George Washington University Hospital in Washington. His television news career included stints as assignment editor and executive producer ...

The 1935 LA Times building is in the foreground, at 1st and Spring. To the rear left, at 2nd and Spring, is the 1948 Mirror building. The 1970s Times Mirror wing, at 1st and Broadway, is what would be ...

Magdi Hanna runs one of the few workshops dedicated to saving jukeboxes. Photo: Saul Gonzalez BBC World Service picks up a piece by Saul Gonzalez on a Pico Boulevard shop dedicated to the repair and ...

Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

Filthy McNasty owned two well-remembered music clubs in the Los Angeles area. His Filthy McNasty's on Sunset Strip occupied the spot where the Viper Room is now. After leaving the Strip, McNasty ran ...

This map of the Los Angeles basin and beyond was drawn by Jack H. Moffett and published in 1970. At Los Angeles Magazine, map curator Glen Creason of the Los Angeles Public Library waxes about the ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...

Out in Agua Dulce, the horse community of scattered homes and winding roads close by the landmark Vasquez Rocks, a camel being walked by its owner last evening was struck and killed by a driver who ...

Sunday's New York Times revives a classic Los Angeles sports media incident — the time that KLAC radio reporter Paul Olden asked Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda what he thought of Cubs' left fielder Dave ...