The greatness of Bart Starr almost never happened.

The 17th-round draft choice nearly walked away from the Green Bay Packers — a franchise he would quarterback to five league championships and victories in the first two Super Bowls — before his career even got off the ground.

“Bart didn’t think...

A California man was killed in a shark attack off the Hawaiian island of Maui, officials said Sunday.

The victim, identified by police as 65-year-old Thomas Smiley, had traveled from his home in Granite Bay, Calif., with his wife and was swimming about 60 yards from shore when he was pulled underwater,...

The May gray is expected to break on Memorial Day, with clearer skies and cool temperatures arriving across the Los Angeles region, according to the National Weather Service.

Drizzly weather has marked the earlier part of the weekend, with scattered showers across Southern California. But meteorologists...

The story of Thelma Smith, a 102-year-old woman facing eviction, has garnered widespread attention, most notably from former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and has prompted an investigation into whether the notice to terminate Smith’s lease complied with Los Angeles County’s interim rental protections...

A fire broke out just after 2 a.m. Sunday at an apartment complex in Highland Park, according to fire department officials.

Residents who spotted the fire that started in a carport began knocking on neighbors’ doors to wake them up so they could evacuate. Fire alarms began sounding at the Arroyo...

The San Francisco Police Officers Assn. is calling on Police Chief Bill Scott to step down after he apologized for his officers’ raid of a journalist’s home.

“It is time for Chief Scott to go. There’s no other way around it,” union leaders wrote in a statement released Saturday, one day after Scott...

Comics legend Stan Lee’s former business manager was arrested Saturday in Arizona, the Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed.

Keya Morgan, 43, is charged with five counts of elder abuse involving the late comics mastermind, including allegations of false imprisonment, theft and embezzlement.

A 102-year-old woman faces eviction from her longtime residence in unincorporated Ladera Heights so the landlords’ daughter can move in instead, according to an eviction notice the woman received.

Thelma Smith was given notice March 8 that she must vacate the single-family home where she has resided...

The trash trucks arrived early Wednesday afternoon, and members of the cleanup team from the Los Angeles sanitation division came with protective coveralls and white masks.

A mountain of rotting, oozing, stinking trash awaited them, stretching a good 20 yards along a skid row alley. Rats popped...

William “Rick” Singer was well into orchestrating an elaborate bribery and cheating scheme to slip his clients’ children into elite colleges when he sat down for a deposition in Washington, D.C., in 2016.

Asked why he should be considered an expert in the field of college admissions, Singer outlined...

A man Los Angeles police believe shot two acquaintances to death in a popular Los Angeles park as children played nearby was arrested in Torrance.

Ryan Conrad, 31, of Los Angeles was taken into custody Friday, said Officer Drake Madison. He said no other details on the arrest were immediately available.

The worst fire in California history took off at a spot notorious for its intense winds.

The gusts — some topping 100 mph — blow down the Feather River Canyon each fall. They push into the town of Paradise with force, powered by high-pressure air parked over the Great Basin that moves through this...

Confidential records released this week show decades of warnings to the University of Southern California about Dr. George Tyndall, the longtime campus gynecologist accused of sexually abusing hundreds of students.

The documents span the entirety of Tyndall’s career at USC, including a handwritten...

John Pinto, a Navajo Code Talker in World War II who became one of the nation’s longest serving Native American elected officials as a New Mexico state senator, has died. He was 94.

Senate colleague Michael Padilla confirmed that Pinto died Friday in Gallup after years of suffering from various...

A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Friday evening seven miles from Cobb, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake occurred at 9:58 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was 14 miles from Healdsburg, 15 miles from Clearlake,...

After decades of complaints about a campus gynecologist, USC administrators hired a team of medical experts to evaluate him.

The experts came back with a disturbing report saying there was evidence Dr. George Tyndall was preying on vulnerable Asian students and had signs of “psychopathy.”

Still,...

In a city dominated by the car, the imposing streamlined elegance of the Pan Pacific Auditorium made the structure an instant Los Angeles icon.

The venue for decades was a top draw for shows and entertainment (“going to the Pan” was once a saying around L.A.) before gradually falling into disrepair.

California’s strange spring weather continues to stun the state, now setting a record for the snowiest May at Mammoth Mountain.

The resort got a record 29 inches of snow this month, giving those in Southern California a chance to ditch the sandy beach for the powdery mountain this Memorial Day...

Genevieve Waite, the South African actress, singer and model who became a quintessential face and voice of the 1960s when, for a brief time, she seemed as omnipresent as Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol or the other fixtures of the era, has died in Los Angeles. She was 71.

Married to John Phillips of the...

Three California parents pleaded guilty Friday to fraud conspiracy and admitted their roles in a test-fixing and bribery scheme, wrapping up an early string of guilty pleas for federal prosecutors in their investigation into college admissions cheating.

Jane Buckingham, 50, a Los Angeles marketing...

A U.S. sailor has pleaded guilty to two counts of espionage and was sentenced to three years in prison after admitting he took classified information about the Navy’s nuclear-powered warships and planned to give it to a journalist and then defect to Russia, officials said Friday.

Navy Petty Officer...

Quakebot is a software application developed by The Times to report the latest earthquakes as fast as possible. The computer program reviews earthquake notices from the U.S. Geological Survey and, if they meet certain criteria, automatically generates a draft article. The newsroom...

When the Golden Legend yearbook was passed out to seniors at San Pasqual High School in Escondido, it was the photos of the six Spanish teachers that raised eyebrows. The educators were dressed in ponchos and sombreros while holding fake mustaches to their mouths, prompting the principal to call...

Inside the U.S. Capitol, in a historic room where Abraham Lincoln forged friendships with colleagues from both parties, members of the Congressional Black Caucus huddled Wednesday with an unlikely coalition that included an L.A. city councilman, an Atlanta rapper, a New York radio host and a South...

Police are seeking the public’s help in finding additional victims of a man they say courted women on dating apps before scamming them.

Wilson Edward Jackson, 37, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of stealing dozens of women’s identities and credit cards, the Los Angeles Police Department said....