The Los Angeles Times

It's crunch time for several drivers seeking a shot at NASCAR's premier championship. Sunday night's Pepsi 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, and next week's race in Richmond, Va.,...

A chunk of Howard Hughes' Los Angeles is for sale: the cavernous hangar where the aviation mogul built his Spruce Goose aircraft that flew once -- for about one minute...

Spend an hour or so with Bonnie Hunt these days, and you come away convinced she has a daytime talk show inside her head. The only question now is whether...

It has the wingspan of a commercial airliner, the weight of an automobile and solar panels to provide enough electricity to light a very large Christmas tree. If this strange...

With his spiky mohawk, cluttered canvas of tattooed skin and punk-rock pedigree stretching back to childhood, Travis Barker isn't exactly pleading to be taken seriously as a hip-hop head. A...

It was a summer of sequels, remakes and knockoffs, but almost everything worked for Hollywood's studios during the record-breaking summer movie season. Quality mattered, and no matter how hard the...

When Joe Biden's brother and son wanted to buy a hedge fund company two years ago, they turned for financing to an Illinois law firm that had lobbied the Delaware...

The only landmark for about 40 miles on a barren stretch of highway is a mailbox battered by time and desert gusts. It's known as the Black Mailbox, though it's...

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...

The bullet-riddled body of an abducted Japanese aid worker was recovered Wednesday, the latest grim sign of insurgents' determination to drive outside humanitarian groups from Afghanistan. Afghan and Japanese authorities...