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The actor with a history of mental health struggles allegedly caused a fiery crash, possibly while intoxicated

A Los Angeles Times investigation in 2005 exposed deep flaws in California’s probate conservatorship system, which is meant to protect adults who cannot adequately see to their own needs or manage their money because of a disability, such as dementia or traumatic brain injury.

LOS ANGELES — A confrontation between U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents and a group of abortion rights protesters in downtown Los Angeles in May prompted L.A. police officials to call a meeting a week later to discuss how federal officers should respond at street protests, according to emails obtained…

As I drive across my family’s farm in the San Joaquin Valley, it feels as if I’m traveling on a chessboard. I cross one square with crops and then another without crops — our fields that must lay fallow. Our farm’s crops have been decimated by the drought.

The insults toward Palisades Media Group Chief Executive Roger Schaffner continued to pile up at his Santa Monica office.

The antiwar activist was part of court proceedings that gripped the US in 1969, becoming a touchstone for the era’s disquiet and divisions

Elon Musk continues to report that Tesla can't possibly produce cars quickly enough to keep up with demand. This is good news for owners who want to make money.

The Swedish-born Oldenburg drew on the sculptor’s eternal interest in form, by reimagining ordinary items in fantastic contexts.

Artist had been in poor health since falling and breaking his hip a month ago