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President Reagan waves just before being shot outside a Washington hotel in 1981. Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr is at left wearing a raincoat.

Secret Service agent credited with saving Reagan’s life dies at 85

June 22, 2019 at 11:33 p.m.

Jerry Parr, the Secret Service agent who shoved President Reagan into the back of the presidential limousine and ordered the car to the hospital during the 1981 assassination attempt, died...

Tech exec Dave Goldberg, husband of Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, dies at 47

May 23, 2019 at 1:50 p.m.

Tech entrepeneur Dave Goldberg, the husband of high-ranking Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, died Friday at 47. The death was announced by his brother, Robert, and in a statement from Goldberg's...

‘Designing Women’ actor Meshach Taylor dead at 67

June 17, 2018 at 1:13 p.m.

Actor Meshach Taylor, best known for his role as the ex-con deliveryman Anthony Bouvier in the hit 1980s sitcom "Designing Women," died Saturday at his home in Altadena, Calif. He...

In this June 1984 file photo, Stanley Marsh 3 leans on one of the 10 Cadillacs buried on his ranch west of Amarillo, Texas. Stanley Marsh 3, whose partially buried row of Cadillacs became a road-side tourist attraction in the 1970s, died Tuesday, June 17, 2014. He was 76.

Stanley Marsh 3 dies at 76; Texas philanthropist created Cadillac Ranch

June 17, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.

Flamboyant oil-and-gas heir Stanley Marsh 3, who was celebrated for commissioning the famed Cadillac Ranch art installation in Amarillo, Texas, but whose life story turned dark when he was charged...

How to end your social media life

August 22, 2021 at 8:04 p.m.

The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is a clever Web site out of the Netherlands that is designed to free users from their social network lives on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and...

Big sales drive big-ticket items

August 22, 2021 at 8:36 a.m.

Despite continued tough economic times, consumers were willing to shell out money for big-ticket items such as computers and flat-panel TVs during Black Friday and the following week, according to...

Tax scams: Old tricks, new spin

August 22, 2021 at 4:10 a.m.

What's worse than paying taxes? Getting caught in a tax scam. Every year at tax time, fraudsters come up with new variations on scams involving bogus refunds, fake audits and...

Earphones show how far counterfeits have come

August 21, 2021 at 1:32 p.m.

Fake merchandise has moved far beyond the bogus Rolexes and Louis Vuitton handbags that have been sold for decades with a wink and a nod. Counterfeit toothpaste showed up in...

His name is Earl

August 21, 2021 at 10:08 a.m.

To compare three popular video sharing services, Los Angeles Times columnist David Colker shot a one-minute, 17-second clip of his dog Earl. Here's how Earl and Colker fared with the...

Cell phone video getting reception

August 22, 2021 at 2:36 p.m.

Hello, it's Jay Leno on the phone. Also Jon Stewart, Sen. Barbara Boxer, Popeye the Sailor, Chris Matthews and an assortment of Las Vegas showgirl-types reading sports scores. Welcome to...

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