The nation’s largest satellite TV provider, based in Southern California, said it successfully launched a new seven-ton satellite into earth orbit Saturday. DIRECTV said its new relay station DIRECTV 14 lifted off atop a an […]

CBS programming has been restored to an estimated 2 million DISH Network subscribers who had been blocked from viewing the channels overnight amid a contract dispute. “We are very pleased with this deal, which meets […]

The latest CicLAvia street festival, in which streets are cleared of vehicle traffic to make way for pedestrians and bicyclists, will be held in South Los Angeles Sunday. It will be the 11th CicLAvia event […]

CBS announced Friday that “Two and a Half Men” will end its 12-season run with an hourlong episode Feb. 19. When CBS unveiled its programming plans for the 2014-15 season in May, it announced this […]

An assault with a deadly weapon suspect armed with a knife was killed in an officer-involved shooting near the Hollywood & Highland center Friday night, police said. Officers responded about 7 p.m. to a report […]

Los Angeles Police Department detectives met Friday with a woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by embattled comedian and actor Bill Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in 1974 when she was 15. Judy Huth, […]

Cheers rang out Friday at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena when a space capsule on which JPL personnel have been working for a decade successfully landed in the Pacific Ocean. The Orion test flight […]

The FBI confirmed Friday that it is investigating threatening emails sent to employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment in the wake of a crippling computer attack targeting the studio. “The FBI is aware of threatening emails […]

Flair Cleaners in Santa Monica is currently accepting donations of gently used or new clothing and shoes as part of its 12th Annual Holiday Clothing and Shoe Drive. The drive will run through Dec. 31 […]

Santa Monica Public Library is excited to announce the launch of Zinio for Libraries, a digital magazine collection. Awarded Best New Database of 2012 by Library Journal, Zinio is the world’s largest eNewsstand, offering easy […]