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A high school digs out after a schoolyard brawl involving hundreds of students. Is it a symptom of wider race problems in the city's schools?
Old-fashioned American bakeries are popping up everywhere on the body-conscious West Coast. Here, five of the city's sweetest sensations.
A city outside California has, for the first time, been named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories the American Lung Association uses to determine the most polluted cities in the country.
For a third day, firefighters continued to battle a stubborn wildfire that has consumed 538 acres of dry brush in the Southern California mountains.
A gunman fired into a crowd of people at a Los Angeles bus stop Wednesday, wounding eight, including children, authorities said.
• Ellen DeGeneres and partner Portia de Rossi, enjoying some Oscar weekend pampering at West Hollywood spa Ole Henriksen Face/Body.
Dear FSB: Do I need a business license for an apparel and accessories, embroidery, screen-printing and promotional product services business? If yes, where do I apply for one in my city? What documents will be needed?
The housing market is only getting worse, according to the latest report from S&P Case/Shiller released Tuesday.
An intimate memorial for Heath Ledger, attended by immediate family and close friends including former girlfriend Naomi Watts, was held in Los Angeles on Saturday night just hours after the actor's death was marked at a New York event.
The risk of foreclosure is on a rapid rise nationally and, with a possible recession at hand, this spike in mortgage-defaults could last for years.
A high school digs out after a schoolyard brawl involving hundreds of students. Is it a symptom of wider race problems in the city's schools?
Old-fashioned American bakeries are popping up everywhere on the body-conscious West Coast. Here, five of the city's sweetest sensations.
A city outside California has, for the first time, been named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories the American Lung Association uses to determine the most polluted cities in the country.
For a third day, firefighters continued to battle a stubborn wildfire that has consumed 538 acres of dry brush in the Southern California mountains.
A gunman fired into a crowd of people at a Los Angeles bus stop Wednesday, wounding eight, including children, authorities said.
• Ellen DeGeneres and partner Portia de Rossi, enjoying some Oscar weekend pampering at West Hollywood spa Ole Henriksen Face/Body.
Dear FSB: Do I need a business license for an apparel and accessories, embroidery, screen-printing and promotional product services business? If yes, where do I apply for one in my city? What documents will be needed?
The housing market is only getting worse, according to the latest report from S&P Case/Shiller released Tuesday.
An intimate memorial for Heath Ledger, attended by immediate family and close friends including former girlfriend Naomi Watts, was held in Los Angeles on Saturday night just hours after the actor's death was marked at a New York event.
The risk of foreclosure is on a rapid rise nationally and, with a possible recession at hand, this spike in mortgage-defaults could last for years.
Isolation, psychological evaluations and unfamiliar surroundings: that's what life is like for Britney Spears while she continues her 72-hour mental lockdown at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A.
As more and more of you dream and scheme your vacations around unforgettable meals, T+L has searched far and wide -- through eight cities across four continents, to be precise -- to unearth the world's greatest new dining experiences.
• Mom-to-be Jessica Alba and boyfriend Cash Warren, shopping for furniture together at Landon Cole in Los Angeles. No, she wasn't shopping for baby furniture – yet! Instead, the actress seemed interested in the store's three-piece, sectional suede sofa.
No charges will be brought against a 10-year-old boy accused of accidentally starting an October wildfire that scorched more than 38,000 acres north of Los Angeles, California, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
The entertainment industry was not immune to the impact of the fires blazing across Southern California.
The dress codes, cool shops and hot spots unique to six cities -- with Katharine McPhee modeling each city's style.
The star talks about how the disease has affected his family - and his song for daughter, Miley
Parts of Southern California sweltered in triple-digit temperatures on Monday as a heat wave stretched into the seventh day and contributed to power outages that left thousands with without air conditioning.
The worsening housing market and rising foreclosures are finally starting to affect parts of the state that have long seemed immune. Will it spread farther?
Thanks to packed planes, crowded runways, and thunderstorms, most business travelers will be spending more time than they'd like in airports this summer. If you're anything like me, you've considered joining an airline lounge club—but balked at the price. (American, Delta, United, and Continental all charge upwards of $400 a year, which is a lot unless you're particularly loyal to one carrier.) Then came British-based Priority Pass (prioritypass.com). Long a favorite of international travel gurus but a well-kept secret stateside, it allows access to more than 500 airline lounges in 275 cities worldwide. The best part? It's a bargain: Basic membership starts at $99 a year, plus $24 each time you visit a club; the $399 plan allows unlimited visits. I first flashed my black-and-gold card at Delta's Crown Room in L.A. the other day—and the complimentary glass of wine in a quiet room sure helped pass my four-hour delay.
Big cities are turning to new technologies and theories to try to relieve an old problem: traffic congestion
A judge on Monday approved a $660 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than 500 alleged victims of clergy abuse
If you've been finding yourself stuck in traffic lately, it's no wonder; about 52 percent of urban-area interstate roads now qualify as "congested."
It used to be that women would get dolled up at home and then head out for a night on the town. But these days, spas and salons are hoping women will bring the party to them.
Leyla Safai is the owner of Heartschallenger (myspace.com/heartschallenger) in Los Angeles:
Los Angeles ranks as the smoggiest city in the United States, according to an annual report card released Tuesday by the American Lung Association. It leads the nation in all three major air pollution categories, short-term particle pollution, year-round particle pollution and ozone pollution.
Question: My wife and I are in the 33 percent tax bracket. We're getting the standard tax breaks for owning our home, having a child and making charitable contributions, but we're getting hit hard with taxes. Do you think we should buy a bigger home to get a bigger tax break? - J. Court, Houston, Texas
Los Angeles and Chicago are battling to represent the United States in an international contest that will determine the host of the 2016 Summer Games. A decision will be announced this Saturday, but before that, SI.com asked Los Angeles resident, Arash Markazi and Chicago native (and eBay phenomenom) Sarah Spain to present the cases for their respective cities.
Los Angeles, California, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa introduced in February an aggressive initiative to combat the surge of gang-related violence in his city.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS LOOK ripped from the pages of National Geographic. I'm standing upstairs at Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills, staring at five-foot-tall images of sumptuous landscapes: a pier glowing in...
California authorities on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of spilling mercury in a Los Angeles subway station before Christmas, according to an FBI spokeswoman.
This month CNN Business Traveller is in Los Angeles. Home to the trans-Pacific super-hub of LAX -- Los Angeles International Airport.
Lennar, one of the nation's largest home builders, warned that it will miss fourth quarter earnings forecasts and post a net loss as it writes down the value of some of its land and other assets.
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A vast, decentralized urban sprawl, Los Angeles challenges conceptions of what a city should be. It's the ultimate monument to America's love affair with the automobile, where even the food is fast -- four wheels good, two legs bad.
Check out The Scene's recommendations for the iconic Californian city and send us your ideas and suggestions.
Now more than ever, top customers of airlines find that loyalty pays. Business 2.0 takes a look at the best � and worst � of frequent-flier programs. By Lia Steakley
A vast, decentralized urban sprawl, Los Angeles challenges conceptions of what a city should be. It's the ultimate monument to America's love affair with the automobile, where even the food is fast -- four wheels good, two legs bad. These days of course the freeway ain't so free. The 16-lane snarl-up is an occupational hazard for L.A. commuters who reputedly total up 99 million miles a day between them. Autopia has become autogeddon, complete with a sub-culture of car chases, car-jackings and drive-by shootings. Built as far west as geography would allow and hemmed in only by the Pacific, LA is a crazy town where manifest destiny has been given free reign, where anyone can turn up and claim to be someone -- if their agent is any good. It's a city of angels and demons, where a thin sheen of plastic surgery perfection barely conceals a seedy underworld of hustlers, dealers and movers on the make. That side of the city has long fascinated crime writers from Raymond Chandler to James Ellroy and, more recently
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In L.A., where you go is just as important as what you drive--and who goes where is as carefully plotted as The Da Vinci Code: Stars such as Heath Ledger, Natalie Portman, and Scarlett Johansson dig the Chateau Marmont (no surprise), while studio brass can be spotted breakfasting at the Belvedere, where you can often catch them popping open a bottle of Bollinger to celebrate a deal.
HERE'S ONE WAY TO BEAT JET LAG: Nightlife impresario RANDE GERBER keeps his watch on L.A. time while he's on the road (his 19 hot spots include the Whiskey bars in New York City, Chicago, and Las V...
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Check out The Scene's recommendations for the iconic Californian city and send us your ideas and suggestions below.
BY PATRICIA HIGUERA, 31, LOS ANGELES AS TOLD TO DAVID HOCHMAN
Driver fatigue likely contributed to the crash of a Greyhound bus Sunday morning that left two people dead, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said.
OneUnited bank is among the nation's largest minority-owned financial institutions. Over the past decade CEO Kevin Cohee has built a small community lender in Boston into a national bank with $25 m...
About 700,000 electric customers in Los Angeles lost power Monday afternoon after a worker mistakenly cut a wrong line, triggering a cascade of problems in the city's power grid, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said.
"It's a classic case of buying the worst house on the block and making it the best," says architect William Hefner of the neglected 1926 Hancock Park, Los Angeles bungalow he and his wife, designer...
There was a double British triumph at the world track cycling championship in Los Angeles on Saturday with sprinter Victoria Pendleton and the men's pursuit team both striking gold.
Searchers used their hands to dig through thick mud and debris Tuesday in search of survivors after a mudslide devastated this coastal community northwest of Los Angeles and killed at least six people.
It's two hours before quitting time, and Mickey Main's cellphone won't stop ringing. His longshoremen, the unionized dockworkers who staff Los Angeles and Long Beach's seaports, don't let up. Some ...
A new city law designed to prevent violence at cybercafes quietly took effect Saturday, but authorities had no inspections planned to check for compliance with the tighter rules.
A United Airlines flight carrying 246 passengers to Los Angeles was forced to return to Sydney after a bomb threat police later described as a hoax was found written on an air sickness bag.
Sizzling heat and shifting winds hindered firefighters trying to contain a wildfire moving across the Santa Clarita foothills northwest of Los Angeles on Sunday, prompting authorities to order hundreds of residents to evacuate.
A wildfire that started burning Saturday in the Santa Clarita foothills northwest of Los Angeles forced the evacuation of more than 100 homes and the closure of several highways, officials said.
A Los Angeles developer who failed to soundproof a modern loft building has agreed to pay residents $1.32 million after they complained they could hear neighbors using the bathroom -- and much more.
When it comes to real estate, there's one topic on everybody's mind these days: interest rates. Real estate has been unstoppable in recent years, thanks in no small part to ultracheap mortgages. Bu...
Family members of the 256 victims onboard the four planes hijacked September 11, 2001, have been invited to hear recordings of the final telephone calls of the passengers and crew.
There is a world where Janet Jackson, Jessica Simpson and American Idol celebrity reject William Hung headline the same show. That place is the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, California, at the Wango Tango Music festival.
Cities across the United States are squeezing extra blood from a reliable old stone: parking fines, and revenues from them, have soared.
Turns out there's a reason they call it La-La land.
Worried about a housing bubble in your hometown? Well, just think how Los Angelenos must feel. Los Angeles and its environs are coming off back-to-back years of 20% to 30% increases in home prices....
Worried about a housing bubble in your hometown? Well, just think how Los Angelenos must feel. Los Angeles and its environs are coming off back-to-back years of 20 to 30 percent increases in home prices.
Valentine's Day is coming up fast and you haven't a clue what to get. Fortunately, some celebrities offer helpful hints.
MONDAY, 4 P.M. Dear Diary: If Hackenbush doesn't get off my back, I'm going to rip his nose off. He knows how busy I am, but he keeps this drip-drip-drip going on the Needleman situation. I'm well ...
Are New Yorkers more vain than folks in L.A.? According to a consumer spending survey, yes. New Yorkers spend more on clothes and personal care than do residents of any other large U.S. city. (In L...
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The labor lockout may have ended after ten tense days, but the West Coast ports crisis is hardly over. Will it really take up to six weeks to get docked goods to their destinations? Will workers an...
The calamities of Sept. 11 struck New York and Washington, D.C., but as the country mobilizes, spiritual leadership is coming from 3,000 miles away. BEVERLY HILLS HAS SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE WAR ON...
When you're grounded, what alternatives do you have to airport bars, newsstands and vending machines?
"Martini Five-O," by the Blue Hawaiians, available on the CD Sway (Pascal)
An hour: Who says L.A. has no history? For 73 years the Delgado family, at Candelas Guitars (2724 Cesar Chavez Avenue, 323-261-2011), has been handcrafting guitars in rosewood and mahogany for the ...
CARIBBEAN High-season savings. It's peak season in the Caribbean--with prices to match. But some destinations in the region are relative bargains. The Dominican Republic and Margarita Island, which...
$408 Round trip between Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles on United is $598 if you travel Wednesday and Sunday. Fly Thursday and Monday and you'll save $190. If you're willing to take the risk, airl...
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If you're ticked because home values have dropped in your area in recent years, lighten up. Unless you bought close to a market peak, you'll probably come out ahead. Because of leverage, it doesn't...
If you're looking to buy a home, give the housing market a cheer. If you're selling, give it two cheers. Home prices have been rising modestly, about 3% to 4% during the past year, and they're like...
Los Angeles was the U.S. city with the best-performing stocks in the first three months of 1994, according to the exclusive Money/Nordby Cities Index, which is composed of a series of indexes of st...
Collapsed buildings, crumbled freeways, closed businesses in Los Angeles. Traffic snarled in ice and snow in the East and Midwest. Clearly, productive activity has been affected dramatically. Yet g...
November's Editor's Notes was quite right in saying that "if you have a core portfolio of equities, you needn't feel like a chump if you put the remainder into low-yielding CDs until prospects for ...
Electronic reference books have racked up around $160 million in annual sales since 1988, though they had a no-table flaw: Each book performed only one task. Enter Franklin's streamlined, multifunc...
THE FOOTHILL GROUP is looking for trouble -- literally. A fast-growing specialty finance company headquartered in Los Angeles, it lends to midsize companies that can't get unsecured commercial bank...
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HERBAL CURES. Homeopathic medicines are moving more mainstream every day. Annual sales now reach $125 million, up about 23% in the past two years. These all-natural, nonprescription drugs work the ...
. Bravo for June's "The World's Five Best Ideas," especially for your endorsement of a single-payer plan. Hillary Clinton's task force could have saved a lot of time by simply going to Canada and s...
For those travelers who want to follow their palates around the U.S. this summer, the most delectable roads lead to New York City. Says who? None less than the country's leading restaurant critics ...
THE PURPOSE of this magazine is to encourage the children you are raising to get an education that will open doors to the best life you could imagine for them. But the real key to opening those doo...
Earlier this year we wrote about the turning points in three lives -- a childless woman, a couple whose bookstore was destroyed in the Los Angeles riot and a congressional hopeful. Here's what happ...
Get ready for new federal air-quality rules that kick in Nov. 1 and could raise gasoline prices 3 cents to 4 cents a gallon. The provisions, part of the 1990 Clean Air Act, require that gas in 39 a...
LOS ANGELES -- You've probably heard the one about the dumb blonde . . . But what about the man? Any man. Men are the latest targets for jokesters these days, under the heading ''dumb men jokes.'' ...
The intersection of Western Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in South-Central Los Angeles looked like hundreds of others in the sprawl of Southern California -- a public school, a Unocal...
FROM THE BLACK coal trains sliding like pythons through the Appalachian foothills to double-stack convoys speeding just-in-time cargoes from Chicago to Los Angeles, America's railroads are bound fo...
In ''Where the New Jobs Will Be'' (March), you say ''Los Angeles will provide the largest number of new white-collar jobs over the next five years.'' However, today Los Angeles, like many areas of ...
-- Park your savings in one-year CDs paying around 7% -- a first-rate place for them to sit out the war. With short-term rates sliding fast, 7% is going to look better and better.Page 79 -- Think a...
I placed an order for my first mutual fund today, using your article in the August issue, ''Where to Put $1,000 Now.'' Thank you very much. Your magazine has lifted me out of an abyss of ignorance ...
With the slow housing market having depressed furniture sales nearly 6% over the past two years, exclusive manufacturers' doors are swinging open to the public, making it easier for you to get exqu...
When memory chips become even cheaper, you'll be able to put more memory into the computer so it can understand what it is capable of doing. Then, for example, the new intelligent tools in the home...
''I can walk out of a three-hour client meeting,'' exults Minneapolis ad man Charles Webber, ''be driving back to my office and answer all the phone messages that stacked up while I was gone. By th...
ONCE UPON a time in urban America, when greedy developers were ravaging the land, paving paradise for parking lots, and tearing down historic landmarks for pricey office buildings, a couple of fell...
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