The Los Angeles Times

Monday night's premiere of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" might have been nerve-racking for the former "Saturday Night Live" cast member, but it also had to be a bit of...

The engineer suspected of causing a Southern California commuter train crash that killed 25 allowed rail enthusiasts into the cab of moving trains and let them sit at the controls,...

Steven Spielberg got it wrong. In his 1997 film "Jurassic Park," the director showed Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor and other carnivorous dinosaurs walking around with their forearms hanging down like a...

The international trade business is foundering faster than ever before, with some U.S. seaports watching cargo traffic fall by more than a third. It's gotten so bad that Los Angeles...

After more than a year of falling sales, February provided a glimpse of even worse times to come as General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Chrysler...

There's a tug of war under way over food prices between supermarkets and food manufacturers such as Nestle, Unilever and Kellogg. The nation's big grocery chains contend food manufacturers have...

How big are the Jonas Brothers? One day here last week, not knowing the cause, some floors of Rockefeller Center were evacuated when the floor shaking and screams of the...

Not long after Audrey Collins was named chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, she found herself pondering what she might say at an upcoming luncheon, the...

At night, when the lawns are empty and the lamps along the walking paths are the only source of light, Topcider Park on the outskirts of Belgrade is a perfect...

Steve Bentley's last stint in the lifeguard chair was more than two decades ago. But Sunday, the out-of-work purchasing agent pounded sand alongside the usual gaggle of bronzed teenagers, taking...