Kobe Bryant scored 34 points and Los Angeles held off a furious rally by the Utah Jazz for a 108-105 victory Friday night, putting the Lakers in the Western Conference finals for the first time in four years.
More than 4,700 union janitors in Los Angeles and Orange counties Saturday ratified a new contract that extends health-care benefits to families, vision care to workers and a large pay raise.
LOS ANGELES ---- Janitors in Los Angeles and Orange counties ratified a new contract Saturday that will provide a pay raise and better health care for some 6,700 workers, but their colleagues in the Silicon Valley voted to allow a strike that could leave dirty floors at high-tech corporations such as Google.
In Southern California, an "overwhelming majority" of about 1,000 voters approved a tentative contract for members of the Service Employees International Union Local 1877, organizer Raphael Lieb said.
If there was a vote for the most valuable player during the Jazz-Lakers playoff series, Memphis Grizzlies' owner Michael Heisley might win. In a cost-cutting move, Heisley approved a Feb.
Tucked in a dark room in a spa-like L.A. set, Eliza Dushku ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) lies on a table, grimacing as a gizmo pulses light on her temples. It's not erasing unsightly laugh lines, but rather her entire memory.
South Korea's Chan Ho Park, Taiwan's Hong-Chih Kuo and Japan's Takashi Saito combine for eight-hitter and DeWitt homers as L.A. gets rare victory at Angel Stadium. A Dodgers public relations official came into the Angels clubhouse Saturday afternoon looking for a game ball to give to Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who wanted a memento from a 6-3 interleague victory that turned into an
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Kobe Bryant scored 34 points and the L.A. Lakers held off a furious rally by Utah in a 108-105 win that propels the Lakers into the Western Conference finals for the first time in four years.
A victim remains unidentified for years as police in Los Angeles and Maywood unknowingly probe the case separately. Late one night in 2003, a body was found in a scorched minivan along a Watts riverbank. The remains lay blackened and twisted in the front seat. The only recognizable parts were a Mexican cowboy-style belt buckle, a bracelet and a wad of cash in the back pocket that had somehow
The Salesian Society agreed to pay $19.5 million to 17 child molestation victims in the final unresolved case of the Los Angeles priest sexual abuse scandal.The Salesians had been charged with knowing that the priest, Titian Miani, now 81, had been accused of preying on young people when they assigned him to a high school where he allegedly molested four children.The jury had been seated for the
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