Los Angeles Daily News

After years of reading retirement destination books, and finding them lacking, California State University, Northridge, geography professor Warren Bland decided to write one of his own. His efforts are compiled...

Going "straight to video" has new meaning these days as movie studios seek to parlay blockbuster titles into hit video games -- the single most lucrative merchandising opportunity for films....

Al Lucas, a lineman for the Los Angeles Avengers in the Arena Football League, died Sunday from a presumed spinal cord injury suffered during a game at the Staples Center,...

Despite political and business support to help minorities buy homes, a newly released report finds that African-Americans and Hispanics still lag significantly behind whites in ownership rates. More than three-quarters...

The story of the Lakers' 2004-05 season will read as a cautionary tale about what happens to a franchise with the hubris to trade one of the game's dominant players...

Before you start planting, you'll need to whip your yard into shape. Here's how to ensure a healthy garden: - Clean up the yard. "Do a quick clean-up," advises Brian...

It was considered something of a box-office upset when "Guess Who," a comedy about an interracial romance starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher, trounced Sandra Bullock's sequel to "Miss Congeniality"...

Shaun Livingston could have been the big man on campus on perhaps the biggest basketball campus of them all, could have been the dynamic freshman point guard who led Duke...

Who's in it: Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham, Brittany Snow, Faith Ford What it's about: When Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe (Diesel) is assigned to protect the five out-of-control children of an...

Tough to have sympathy It's so hard to write this through the tears. Poor Barry "Puffy" Bonds, what have we done to you? "You guys (the media) wanted me to...