Conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos will speak at Cal State Fullerton on Oct. 31, the campus' College Republicans chapter announced amid an attempt to block the appearance.

A petition on the website change.org asking Cal State Fullerton administrators to block the speech has drawn nearly 5,000...

Los Angeles International Airport came in second-to-last among 18 mega airports in a passenger satisfaction study released Thursday, while John Wayne Airport in Orange County ranked highest among large airports in the United States.

The low ranking for LAX comes amid several major projects underway,...

Fresh fish are returning to San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.

Starting this weekend, San Francisco will allow fishermen to sell dabs, sole and rockfish from their boats at the popular tourist spot as part of a one-year pilot program.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that San Francisco banned...

Snow fell in Sierra Nevada on the last day of summer, giving the towering mountain range shared by California and Nevada a wintry look in September and making travel hazardous.

Sixteen vehicles crashed on Interstate 80 as snow and hail fell Thursday, killing a man driving a pickup truck and causing...

Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer known in the West as “the man who saved the world” for his role in averting a nuclear war over a false missile warning at the height of the Cold War, has died. He was 77.

Petrov’s German friend Karl Schumacher said Tuesday that Petrov died on May...

Liliane Bettencourt, the L'Oreal cosmetics heiress and the world's richest woman, has died at her home in a chic Parisian suburb. She was 94.

Bettencourt's daughter, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, said in a written statement Thursday that her mother "left peacefully" overnight in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

A physician assistant who worked at a Fountain Valley medical clinic has been convicted of federal drug trafficking for writing narcotics prescriptions without a medical purpose.

A federal jury on Monday found Kaitlyn Phuong Nguyen, 32, guilty of 10 felony counts related to illegal distribution...

As San Diego officials scramble to stop a deadly hepatitis A outbreak linked to a lack of public restrooms downtown, they can’t say they weren’t warned.

A San Diego Union-Tribune review of public records found that since 2000, four grand jury reports emphasized the risks of human waste on city...

Here’s four images from the Volkswagen folder in the Los Angeles Times print archive. Back when VW Beetles seemed to be 10% of the vehicles on L.A. freeways, only the customized Bug stood out.

Enjoy

Scott Harrison

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A Los Angeles County judge on Wednesday delayed Robert Durst’s preliminary hearing, which means the New York real estate scion won’t know until next year whether the judge believes there’s enough evidence for him to face trial on a murder charge.

Durst, who is charged with murdering his best friend...

California State University trustees unanimously approved a salary increase for top executives at the end of a two-day meeting in which they also discussed budget shortfalls, enrollment growth and protections for immigration students.

The board of the nation’s largest public university system approved...

Los Angeles County education officials have launched an investigation into fiscal and legal questions surrounding a small public school district that has been enrolling Catholic school students.

The inquiry centers on the Lennox Virtual Academy, an online school operated by the Lennox School District,...

Lillian Ross, a celebrated New Yorker magazine writer who created classics of literary journalism, including novel-length pieces on Ernest Hemingway and the making of a Hollywood movie, has died. She was 99.

New Yorker Editor David Remnick confirmed her death, but did not immediately have other...

A shallow magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning four miles from Wengler, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 10:10 a.m. PDT time at a depth of 10.6 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was 24 miles from Shasta Lake, 29 miles from Redding...

A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning 1 mile from San Juan Bautista, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:54 a.m. PDT at a depth of 2.5 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was eight miles from Hollister, Calif., and 11 miles...

Jake LaMotta, a brawling middleweight champion whose epic battles with Sugar Ray Robinson defined non-heavyweight boxing in the 1940s and early ’50s, has died, his fiancee said Wednesday. He was 95.

LaMotta, known to many only as the conflicted hero-antihero in “Raging Bull,” the movie based on...

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Wednesday in Humboldt County south of Eureka, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 7:29 a.m. PDT at a depth of 5 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was 2 miles from Honeydew and 23 miles from Fortuna.

In the last...

If the goal is to stop illegal immigration, I’ve got some advice for President Trump from here in California, which used to be part of Mexico and now has turned itself into a kind of sanctuary state.

For starters, the promised “big, beautiful wall” along the southern border of the United States...

Los Angeles Times staff photographer Phil Bath, using a high-speed 35-millimeter camera, was present during special effects filming for the movie "War of the Worlds." Four of these photos were published in the May 9, 1952, Los Angeles Times. An accompanying story explains:

The City Hall was blasted...

Cal State faculty spoke out Tuesday about what they called “hasty” recent decisions to drop remedial classes and loosen math requirements by next fall.

In a resolution by the university system’s Academic Senate, faculty members said they hadn’t been given enough time to weigh in on what could be...

The board of the Westlands Water District on Tuesday dealt a potentially fatal blow to the most ambitious California water project planned in decades.

By a 7-1 vote, the state's largest irrigation district decided not to join California WaterFix — a $17-billion plan to build two tunnels under the...

In 2010, on the 25th anniversary of the quake, Los Angeles Times writer Daniel Hernandez wrote in a La Plaza blog post:

Mexico City on Sunday marked 25 years since a powerful earthquake devastated the Mexican capital, killing thousands and sparking a grassroots civilian rescue effort that helped...