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Kanye West leaves Ellen DeGeneres speechless: 'I'm sorry for the realness'
"Well, it's not daytime television anymore," Ellen DeGeneres said Thursday on her show after a rambling, nearly unbroken, nearly 6½-minute oration by her guest, Kanye West. "We're gonna take a break," she added, looking for the right words after she'd managed to sneak in only a few dozen of them...
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Shaquille O'Neal scores a two-house compound outside of Atlanta
The Big Aristotle has found himself a big slice of the Peach State. Retired professional basketball player turned television analyst Shaquille O’Neal has bought an estate in McDonough, Ga., for $1.15 million. Located about 30 miles southeast of Atlanta, the property includes two homes, a three-stall...
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Why the Expo Line to Santa Monica marks a rare kind of progress in American cities
The $1.5-billion second leg of the Expo Line, which opened Friday from Culver City to Santa Monica, adds seven light-rail stations and more than six miles of track to the growing Los Angeles County transit network. That’s on top of the six stations and 11.5 miles that came on line when the Gold...
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Man nearly beaten to death by mob in San Francisco, police say
A mob of up to 30 men and women brutally attacked a man with glass bottles in San Francisco’s South of Market district early Friday, leaving him clinging to life, police said. The man, described as being between 20 and 25 years old, was attacked in an industrial area near Harrison and Harriet streets that’s...
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Donald Trump wins NRA endorsement: 'The 2nd Amendment is on the ballot'
Bernie Sanders running short of cash entering California, financial filings show May 20, 2016, 4:48 p.m. As the hopes of a third-party candidate wane, Donald Trump continues to rack up support in the Republican Party. Bernie Sanders burned through his cash in April and has little left for California,...
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Police make a gruesome discovery in San Bernardino after 60-mile freeway chase
A man and two teenagers were arrested Friday after trying to light a body on fire in a trash bin in San Bernardino, then leading police on a wild chase through Southern California, authorities said. An officer was patrolling the area near 6th Street and Sterling Avenue at 1:09 a.m. when he spotted...
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Live updates: Metro Expo Line to Santa Monica opens
Live updates: Metro Expo Line to Santa Monica opens May 20, 2016, 3:16 p.m. It has been more than six decades, but passenger rail is finally returning to the gridlocked Westside. Metro's Expo Line extension opened today and will run from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica. Metro passengers are...
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Americans could prevent roughly half of all cancer deaths by doing these four things
Roughly half of cancer deaths in the United States could be prevented or forestalled if all Americans quit smoking, cut back on drinking, maintained a healthful weight and got at least 150 minutes of exercise each week. These same measures would also reduce the number of new cancer diagnoses by...
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Mexico OKs extradition of drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman to U.S.
The Mexican government on Friday formally approved a U.S. request to transfer Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to California and Texas for prosecution, opening the way for the infamous cartel leader’s extradition to the United States. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had granted...
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Gary Payton on Stephen Curry's MVP: 'I can name a lot of guys that could have been unanimous'
Gary Payton doesn't think Stephen Curry should have been the first unanimous NBA MVP. The basketball Hall of Famer said in a recent interview with Sports Illustrated and SiriusXM he believes a number of former players were worthy of all the first-place votes during their eras. “I can name a couple...
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A battered Seal Beach icon burns — yet again
In Seal Beach, residents gather on the pier to sip coffee, watch the surfers, gossip, fish and amble in the sea breeze. On Friday, in a steady south wind, they gathered to watch it burn over a choppy gray sea. An abandoned diner at the end of the pier caught fire around 7:45 a.m. Fire boats from...
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It's official: Tim Lincecum signs with the Angels
The Angels’ signing of former star Tim Lincecum is official. The team agreed to a one-year major league contract with the 31-year-old right-hander after he passed a physical on Thursday. Lincecum will ramp up his throwing at the Angels’ spring-training facility in Tempe, Ariz., and then report...
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Mobile home in Malibu's Paradise Cove sells for a record $5.3 million
Seven-figure sales are an everyday occurrence in L.A.’s real estate hot bed, even in the mobile-home market. In Malibu, a mobile home recently changed hands for a record $5.3 million. Found within the confines of the Paradise Cove Mobile Home Park, the triple-wide house was briefly listed for sale...
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You can finally ride the Expo Line from L.A. to Santa Monica. Here's why the trip takes 50 minutes.
When the long-awaited Expo Line extension opens Friday at noon, passengers will ride from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica in 50 minutes. That's an improvement over the ugly rush-hour commutes many days on the 10 Freeway. But it's roughly as long as the trip took on the old Pacific Electric...
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Tens of thousands have left California's American Independent Party in the last month
A new analysis finds nearly 32,000 voters in California's American Independent Party changed their official registration and left the party in the two weeks after a Los Angeles Times investigation identified widespread confusion among the party's members. The change comes after a series of stories...
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State Senate approves sweeping new gun control laws for California
The state Senate on Thursday approved sweeping new restrictions on using guns in California in response to the December mass shooting by two terrorists that left 14 dead in San Bernardino. Lawmakers approved 11 bills including measures mandating background checks for Californians buying ammunition...
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Google Earth car scorched by incendiary devices
A Google Earth car and a building were scorched by incendiary devices Thursday on the company's sprawling campus in Northern California, officials said. The fire was discovered about 10:52 p.m. in the 1500 block of Salado Drive in Mountain View, said Katie Nelson, a spokeswoman for the Mountain...
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McLaren builds a car for the masses, with a $200,000 price tag
The supercar company McLaren, in an effort to boost factory capacity and bring new buyers to its brand, has gone downmarket. The 570S, the exclusive British builder's first sports car, is being advertised as an affordable, daily driver — an attainable McLaren, available to any auto enthusiast with...
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Liberals are dangerously wrong about Citizens United: Money is speech
Once upon a time, liberals pushed free speech at every opportunity. They lauded Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis for protecting unpopular views early in the last century. During the 1960s, Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement demanded the right to demonstrate politically on campus —...
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NBA draft: Here's the best guess on how the first round will play out
The presumption across the NBA is that Ben Simmons from Louisiana State and Brandon Ingram from Duke are the best players in this year's draft and they are expected to go one-two to the Philadelphia 76ers and the Lakers. After that, it's a big guessing game because there are no obvious standouts...