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A $50,000 reward is being offered to help solve the murder of a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles last month. The Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday released video showing a hooded figure suddenly attacking 58-year-old Fernando Perez on Nov. 6. He suffered multiple stab wounds and died in a hospital on Nov. 8. […]

Bob Highfill Record Staff Writer @BobHighfill STOCKTON — Soon, traveling from the San Joaquin Valley to Southern California won’t require a long drive south on Interstate 5 or Highway 99 or fighting traffic to catch a flight from the Bay Area or Sacramento. In August, United Airlines will begin twice-daily, nonstop […]

The announcement on Wednesday by the union representing Los Angeles teachers that it will strike on Jan. 10 is not good news for high school sports in the Los Angeles Unified School District. All games involving LAUSD schools will be postponed during the strike, according to the district’s athletics office. Practices are likely not to […]

Two games had center stage on Thursday night as the Houston Rockets traveled to Miami to play the Heat and the Dallas Mavericks headed to Los Angeles to play the Clippers.  James Harden and the Rockets were looking for their sixth straight win after a 10-14 start to the season, but they lost Chris Paul […]

Over a 50-year span, Bob Hope entertained American troops overseas. Many of his USO tours occurred over Christmas. Los Angeles Times photographers often covered his departures and arrivals. In the above image, Hope was embarking on his 13th annual two-week Christmas tour of U.S. military bases. In 2003, Times staff writer Al Martinez reported in […]

The death toll in a methane explosion at a coal mine in northeast Czech Republic increased to 13, a mining company said Friday. OKD mining company spokesman Ivo Celechovsky said that 11 of the dead were Polish nationals and two were Czechs. Another 10 miners were injured in the explosion Thursday… Source: latimes.com – Los […]