The Los Angeles Times

It would have taken quite a star to outshine Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention. But the Hollywood politicos who turned out for the GOP gathering in the Twin...

Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican super-lobbyist, was sentenced to 48 months in prison Thursday for his role in a corruption scandal that rocked Congress and the Bush administration. U.S. District...

Animator, director and producer Jose Cuautemoc "Bill" Melendez, whose television programs and theatrical films featuring Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" characters earned four Emmy Awards, an Oscar nomination and two Peabody Awards,...

Falling gas prices didn't help automakers in August, as economic worries and an overabundance of trucks continued to drag down U.S. sales results. Overall industry sales were down 15.5 percent...

Like it or not, the military finds itself in a highly visible, and often uncomfortable, role in a campaign season that features a decorated war hero as a presidential candidate....

There was a time when it was hard to find yellow warblers at Rush Creek. But on a recent bright and sunny morning, a yellow warbler plunged through a gap...

What does it mean when half your Ryder Cup team has never played in a Ryder Cup before? The U.S. is going to make that discovery in a couple of...

Jerry Reed, whose roles in three "Smokey and the Bandit" Southern comedy films opposite Burt Reynolds often overshadowed his gifts as a prolific country singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, died Monday...

With two-thirds of the year now over, nothing is resolved about the economy, the housing market, the credit markets or the stock market. As the curtain comes up on the...

Ron Paul has no plan to set foot in the Republican convention next door in St. Paul. If he tried, he said, party officials told him that he would have...