The Los Angeles Times

Police discovered the tortured and burned bodies of six men in an empty lot Monday morning, ending a two-month period of relative calm in this border city's war on organized...

Billionaire drug developer Patrick Soon-Shiong of West Los Angeles should be moving up the list of the nation's richest people with a deal Sunday to sell APP Pharmaceuticals Inc. for...

A seat on the "hot tamale train" is no longer the benchmark of success on "So You Think You Can Dance." There now is a more coveted ranking, a sweeter...

When Sam Ahmed needed help investing the proceeds from the sale of his overnight-delivery business, he didn't want to hire a pricey adviser or rely on generic information from the...

Someone knew as far back as last summer that Dara Torres would make the 2008 U.S. Olympic swimming team -- at age 41. That someone was USA Swimming's Mark Schubert,...

A powerful suicide explosion killed at least 15 people and injured dozens of others here Sunday evening, shortly after a large protest rally marking the anniversary of the government forces'...

Bond investors, like stock investors, regained some confidence in April and May -- only to start losing it again in June. The result was a bifurcated quarter for bond mutual...

Garrett Weber-Gale, trying to take ownership of the unofficial title of sprint king from Gary Hall Jr., looked at Hall's get-up before the 50-meter freestyle final on Saturday night. The...

Soldiers here fired off 12 million pieces of mortar, rifle and artillery ammunition on the training range last year -- exercises the Army knows generated 58.8 tons of carbon dioxide....

Black & White By Lewis Shiner Subterranean, 376 pages, $25 Lewis Shiner's body of work brings to mind a coloring book whose margins have been gleefully scrubbed away by a...