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Forty young African American women at Faithful Central Bible Church recently participated in a UCLA-backed clinical trial that used a smartphone app to track their eating and activity and teach them healthful diet and exercise habits.

After dinner on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood on Sunday, Peter Buschmann found a nice surprise at his car.

Sometimes, as the winter season of a symphony orchestra cruises along, it’s diverting to muse upon connections -- either within a particular program or between that program and surrounding ones. Some connections are intended, and others are left to our imaginations.

A year ago, snapping the ball on punts turned into a nightmare for Narbonne in the City Section Division I championship football game. Three bad snaps resulted in safeties and helped Crenshaw defeat the Gauchos, 18-13.

The Beverly Hills tournament begins on Monday, and it's one of the best in tournament history.

If you're a fan of Zack Hall's remarkable breads, you know how much of a Los Angeles treasure hunt it can be to find them: at farmers markets, through delivery services, on the menu at Trois Mec. Hall, a 30-year-old former musician, opened his one-man company Clark Street Bread earlier...

An unlikely stretch of Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, just south of the 101 Freeway, is L.A.’s newest destination for handmade design, thanks to a pair of new studio-stores opening this weekend.

Rogie Vachon, the first Los Angeles King to have his sweater retired, has eyes on retiring his street number next. The legendary goalie has put his home in Venice on the market at $3.19 million.

A Santa Ana man has been arrested on suspicion of molesting nearly a dozen boys over the last two years, and police say they believe there may be more victims.

As its annual fundraiser this year, the Cinefamily has organized a series of events under the banner "Truth and Soul, Inc.: The films of Robert Downey, Sr. (A Prince)" as a tribute to the irreverent counterculture filmmaker. The program begins Friday night with a first-time on-stage...

Qiana Sago knew she had a problem.

Police are searching for a gunman who robbed and fatally shot a 21-year-old transgender woman in Chesterfield Square early Wednesday morning.

A San Gabriel man tried to avoid detection when he smuggled nearly four dozen endangered turtles, but he wasn't fast enough.

An anonymous donor has given the Diocese of Orange $20 million to help transform Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral into the county's center of Catholic life — the largest cash gift it has received.

Southern California is mired in more than three years of drought, but the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is prepared for snowy conditions after it received 1,600 parkas for camouflage, 500 snowshoes and 132 snow trousers in March from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Public health officials in Los Angeles and Orange counties are asking surfers and swimmers to stay out of the ocean because of the bacteria, debris and trash that washed into the water from this week's storms.

Idyllic 19th-century American landscapes at LACMA, new pieces by Patssi Valdez, a talk about art and AIDS at MOCA and the launch of a new film series at the Hammer. There’s an art fair (or two) going down in Miami, so the art industry is a little quiet. Even so, there's stuff to do this...

“Seven Reeds,” a group show of painting and sculpture at Overduin & Co., takes its title from a short 1949 documentary by Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni.

Facing claims that it had violated a California law requiring open and public meetings, a Los Angeles city commission revisited its vote to not deem a century-old Los Feliz house as a historic monument -- only to come to the same decision at a Thursday hearing.

When Ann Craven paints the moon, Earth’s only natural satellite is more a fugitive absence than a declared presence.

In court documents filed Thursday, Bill Cosby's attorney called a woman's allegation that the comedian sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion decades ago "patently false" and asked for her lawsuit to be dismissed.

An Orange County Superior Court jury awarded a former teacher $50,000 after ruling that the Laguna Beach Unified School District violated her privacy by allowing reports to spread that she had accused of coming to school drunk.

When Stanley Kubrick made the blistering 1964 satire “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” one main target was the John Birch Society.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday he must strike a difficult balance in deciding how to discipline three officers who violated department policies when they shot and killed an unarmed man after a pursuit last year.

Miriam Hanks-Todd has written that artist Christian Herman Cummings “is an ironist who uses topsy-turvy logics, nontraditional authorship and day-dreamy psychical introspection as primary modes of expression." She’s correct – in a topsy-turvy, nontraditional sort of way.

In the wake of a change in leadership on the Board of Supervisors, two members have revived a proposal to set up a civilian oversight commission for the embattled Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Despite public appeals by the city's mayor, the county district attorney and others, no new witnesses to the fatal Los Angeles police shooting of a mentally ill black man have come forward to help investigators, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday.

An Orange County surgeon has been disciplined after mistakenly removing a patient's healthy kidney instead of his diseased kidney during surgery.

Friday is Repeal Day, a time to shake up a couple of martinis and celebrate the end of Prohibition. For those who may need to brush up on their history, on Dec. 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic...

Dr. Dre dropped $40 million on the nearly 20,000-square-foot Brentwood estate of supermodel and actress Gisele Bundchen and her husband, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, earlier this year and then started an expansion project.

Former Granada Hills Kennedy Coach Manny Alvarado has joined Sierra Canyon as an assistant baseball coach.

Children’s computer tablet maker Fuhu has about 2 million registered users. Now the El Segundo start-up is looking to tap them for some steady income.

Moby has bought a remodeled Tudor in Hollywood Hills for $2.9 million.

Three men allegedly stole a $1,000 Christmas tree on display in a Glendale parking structure, said police officials, who arrested one suspect.

This Venice artist loft for sale at $4.2 million, or lease at $15,000 a month, is in a century-old building that used to house the Vanguard newspaper.

Drawing from classic and contemporary styles, this eclectic Newport Beach residence is a reflection of its owner, the founder and chief executive of Element Skateboards. Dark hardwoods provide a visual contrast to crisp white interiors while brilliant, patterned wall treatments and vintage surf...

The two spots in front of Hot Vit Lon Long An are taken, so Sonny Ha squeezes his SUV into a tight opening at the curb in the middle of the bustling Little Saigon shopping district.

Officials in Orange and San Diego counties Wednesday warned residents to steer clear of the ocean as a double whammy of rain runoff and sewage contamination hit beaches along the Southern California coast.

Three Los Angeles police officers violated department rules for using deadly force when they fatally shot an unarmed man following a high-speed chase last year, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has found.