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Johnny Otis, the "godfather of rhythm and blues" who wrote and recorded the R&B classic "Willie and the Hand Jive" and for decades evangelized black music to white audiences as a bandleader and radio host, has died. He was 90.
As an auxiliary bishop in the nation's most populous Roman Catholic archdiocese, Gabino Zavala was an outspoken advocate for immigration rights, prison reforms and better conditions for the working poor.
Though he's modestly deflecting praise, the reserve sheriff's deputy who captured a man suspected of being the city's most dangerous arsonist smiled for media cameras as he credited his colleagues and vigilant citizens for the arrest.
According to newly revised figures the total number of Southern California households and businesses that suffered power loses following last week's ferocious windstorm was 643,000.
Some of the worst winds in years blasted the West overnight, knocking down trees and power lines in California and toppling trucks and forcing some schools to close as gusts reached 102 mph in Utah.
Several hundred Occupy Wall Street sympathizers have marched to the Bank of America Plaza in downtown Los Angeles and some have set up tents on a lawn.
A man convicted of four "Southside Slayer" serial killings was found guilty Thursday of strangling three more victims in a series of attacks stretching over a decade.
Chinese electric carmaker BYD Co. opened its North American headquarters on Monday, a move that officials said could bring hundreds of jobs and provide a U.S. hub for sales and research.
The U.S. and Mexico will expand an earthquake monitoring system south of the border in the wake of last year's deadly magnitude-7.2 temblor, officials from both countries announced Wednesday.
A Florida man charged with hacking into email accounts of celebrities including actress Scarlett Johansson was ordered Friday to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom Nov. 1.
Los Angeles police have arrested about 11 anti-Wall Street demonstrators who entered a Bank of America during a downtown march by hundreds of people.
A school police officer who sparked a school lockdown and a massive manhunt after he claimed to have been shot while on patrol was convicted Monday of fraud and other offenses for making the whole thing up.
Police Thursday searched for a 15-year-old boy from India who vanished in Los Angeles a week ago after arriving with a group for an educational tour of California.
Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell was suspended for two weeks without pay Sunday by Major League Baseball for inappropriate comments and gestures he made toward fans before a game in San Francisco.
Twenty years after the videotaped Rodney King beating exposed racial wounds and ignited passions that eventually sparked a devastating riot, Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday he's confident a similar police beating couldn't happen again.
Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94.
Jack LaLanne, the late guru of physical fitness for generations of homemakers, was remembered Tuesday by Arnold Schwarzenegger and other bodybuilders as a pioneer and an inspiration.
A teenager was charged Thursday with smuggling a gun onto a Southern California high school campus, where it discharged and wounded two classmates.
Two reputed gang members were arrested in the Halloween killing of a 5-year-old boy who was shot in the head as he showed off his Spider-Man costume in his backyard, police said Friday.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown challenged Republican Meg Whitman on Monday to take a stand on a November ballot initiative that would undermine California's landmark global warming law.
A man accused of bilking elderly South Los Angeles residents out of their homes in a foreclosure scam is facing a potential life sentence in a rare use of California's three-strikes law for a white-collar crime.
Edith Shain, who claimed to be the nurse who was smooched by a sailor in Times Square in the famous Life magazine photograph marking the end of World War II, has died. She was 91.
A cross erected on a remote Mojave Desert outcropping to honor American war dead has been stolen less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed it to remain standing while a legal battle continued over its presence on federal land.
Poor communication and unexpected fire conditions probably caused the deaths of two firefighters whose truck plunged off a mountain road during last year's huge wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles, a government report concluded.
California's attorney general on Monday accused Moody's Investors Service of ignoring a subpoena and refusing to provide answers about the credit-rating agency's role in the worldwide financial meltdown.
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