The Los Angeles Times

As a golf event, it has become a biennial tradition, and not a good one. The Ryder Cup rolls around, the European team rolls over the U.S. team, the U.S....

It hasn't been a great nine years for U.S. Ryder Cup fortunes. Despite encouraging words from captain Paul Azinger, the fact that Tiger Woods will be sitting out when the...

There's not much that Democrats and Republicans agree on these days, but there's one issue on which they're in accord: The deposed chief executives who led mortgage giants Fannie Mae...

Top-ranked USC looked the part on Saturday night, routing fifth-ranked Ohio State, 35-3, before a capacity crowd of 93,607 at the Coliseum. Junior quarterback Mark Sanchez passed for four touchdowns...

Hawaii this year has hardly been a paradise for travelers. In the spring, thousands of people were stranded when Aloha Airlines and ATA halted flights. As seats vanished, round-trip airfares...

Before construction had wrapped on Vanessa Choy and Andrew Wong's house in Studio City, Calif., the rumors had started swirling: The couple was building a halfway house for addicts, passersby...

Hurricane Ike swallowed Dawn Demers' four-bedroom home so completely that she couldn't even see her rooftop as she stood marooned on a bridge, staring at brown floodwaters and trying not...

Apparently, the way to a real estate agent's heart is through his or her stomach. With buyers continuing to hide in the weeds and the price of gas still stinging,...

Metrolink officials said Saturday that an engineer on their commuter train that collided head-on Friday with a freight train -- killing at least 25 people and critically injuring dozens more...

A meeting Thursday aimed at sowing faith between Iraq's government and leaders of U.S.-funded paramilitary forces instead highlighted distrust between the sides, three weeks before Iraq takes control of the...