The boys on Larchmont in "False Alarms," with an LA Railway yellow car passing by. What is it about non-Angelenos becoming so obsessed with old filming locations that they spend years tracking down ...

Two Mexican cousins are killed by Los Angeles police in a case of mistaken identity. A prominent journalist is cautioned by two LAPD officers about his coverage of the shootings. A short time later, ...

Doug Wilson/Herald Examiner at LA Public Library. In Los Angeles in the 1960s, there were three huge local news stories that riveted people in front of their televisions — mostly to watch KTLA Channel ...

Michael Ansara had one of those Hollywood careers that lasted a long time and is fun to examine. Because he was of Lebanese heritage (born in Syria but raised in the U.S.), he went from the drama ...

During the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, on July 28, 1984, a dramatic moment came when 84 grand pianos appeared in the peristyle of the Coliseum and began to play "Rhapsody in ...

He made L.A. a legitimate NBA town and helped turn pro basketball into a multi-billion dollar industry. Along the way, he brought the city 10 league championships. You can also argue that the arrival ...

All, In the next couple of weeks our sister paper, the California Real Estate Journal, will cease publication. This news is a reflection of the times we live in; as you all know too well, the economic ...

LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein announced to the staff this afternoon that the lawyer who had guided the paper through the legal minefields of news investigations, threats and libel allegations ...

IN Los Angeles is out with a strong story on the death of two-year-old Sarah Angelina Chavez, six months after she was taken away from her lesbian foster parents and ...

Susan Atkins was the Charles Manson follower who used the knife on actress Sharon Tate on Cielo Drive in 1969. After she died this past September, Orange Coast Magazine writer Shawn Hubler began ...

This piece ran in The Atlantic in March 1982 and is credited as an influential argument in the movement toward community policing embraced here and in New York by William J. Bratton. The magazine ...

Gil Friesen was the longtime president of A&M Records, the legendary Los Angeles record company started by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Born in Pasadena, he started in the mailroom at Capitol ...