The Los Angeles Times

Ray Ellis, the versatile pop music arranger who wrote the charts for hits by the Four Lads, Bobby Darin and others, has died. He was 85. Mr. Ellis died Oct....

Wall Street enjoyed its biggest Election Day rally Tuesday, as stock prices mirrored the country's hope for better days ahead. The Dow Jones industrial average soared more than 300 points,...

Iraq's parliament on Monday approved quotas guaranteeing minorities a handful of seats on provincial governing bodies, an action that helps pave the way for regional elections but also angers Christians...

CNN will use hologram technology to beam three-dimensional images of its field correspondents onto its Election Center set. NBC News will project a U.S. map on the Rockefeller Plaza ice...

As Jimmie Johnson labored in the middle of the pack Sunday, many at the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway kept waiting for the same thing: nightfall. That's...

Dissident members of South Africa's African National Congress moved forward Sunday in breaking away from the long-ruling political party, meeting here to decide on the new party's leadership, name and...

Bob Barnett's phone call launched a $150 billion-a-year industry. Twenty-five years ago, during a media event at Chicago's Soldier Field, the president of Ameritech Mobile Communications made the nation's first...

The Supreme Court would not usually be the best place in this city to hear a raucous conversation that makes full use of the F-word, the S-word and assorted other...

The loose-leaf binders on Beverly Hills, Calif., attorney Paul Kiesel's blond wood shelves contain hundreds of stories alleging deception, loss and heartache. Kiesel is representing struggling homeowners who claim they...

Tweak NASCAR's Chase again? Jeff Burton doesn't want to hear about it. With Jimmie Johnson headed toward a third consecutive Sprint Cup Series title even though three races remain, calls...