The Santa Monica History Museum’s Board of Directors has elected a new chairman: Ricardo Bandini Johnson. Johnson’s family has lived in California since 1810. His great-Aunt, Arcadia Bandini de Baker, was the wife of Colonel […]

A Santa Monica High School freshman baseball coach has been diagnosed with measles, but it is unlikely any of the coach’s players have caught the highly contagious virus, according to the Los Angeles Times. Santa […]

“American Sniper” continued to burn at the nation’s box offices, and added $64.4 million to its kitty this weekend. The film, in its second weekend of wide release, now has taken in $200.1 million in […]

Awards-season favorites “Birdman” and “Boyhood” are among the 10 nominees vying tonight for the coveted Producers Guild of America Darryl F. Zanuck Award for motion pictures, an honor that typically leads to best-picture glory on […]

A public memorial service will be held today for actor and fitness guru George Gregory Plitt Jr., who was struck by a Metrolink train in Burbank while filming near the tracks on Jan. 17. The […]

A six-block perimeter was established Friday night in Palms as police searched for a possibly armed man. The suspect was briefly confronted by a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant, who believed he saw a weapon, […]

Updated Saturday, Jan. 24 – 3:25 p.m. A possible gang member, just 13 years old, was arrested today for stabbing a 14-year-old high school student to death outside Griffith Middle School in East Los Angeles. […]

The airport police officers union on Friday accused commanding officers and the Los Angeles Police Department of initiating an improper sting on luggage handlers at Los Angeles International Airport, and called on the LAPD’s watchdog […]

A motorcyclist was killed Friday in a crash on the Marina (90) Freeway in Culver City. The accident occurred on the eastbound 90 just east of the transition lanes to the southbound San Diego (405) […]