Kate Mather

A cold front moving through Ventura and Los Angeles counties brought the overnight showers Monday is expected to linger until late Tuesday morning, after which dry, but cold, period should take hold for much of the week. After the rain moves out,...

Times reporters Kate Mather and Angel Jennings will join city editor Shelby Grad at 1 p.m. PDT for a Google+ Hangout on the space shuttle Endeavour's L.A. flyover and the controversial tree removal to make way for the craft in South L.A....

Space shuttle Endeavour, carried atop a modified 747, has landed in California at Edwards Air Force Base, the latest stop in its cross-country trek from Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

Space shuttle Endeavour's final trek will not only include the entire state of California but a series of celebratory stops across the southern United States, the grandest of finales for what once was NASA's most prized programs....

The shuttle Endeavour will begin a two-day journey to its new home at the California Science Center early Friday morning, when it will be moved out of the United Airlines hangar at LAX where it has been kept since flying......

The "Sons of Anarchy" actor who police believe killed his 81-year-old landlady in Los Feliz broke into a Northridge townhome – barefoot and shirtless – in January and attacked residents inside, one of the victims said....

Getting the space shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center will be a tricky job for engineers, with some spots along the route just inches wider than the huge craft. Times reporters Kate Mather, Angel Jennings and Nita Lelyveld will......

Once a well-liked football player and member of the Homecoming Court, terror suspect Ralph Deleon converted to Islam and became...

With a break at 8:45 a.m., the Apply Valley Farms employees are always the first to arrive at Taco Nayarit in Central Fresno. But after a workplace shooting Tuesday morning, the loyal customers never came....

Two more people have died after an employee opened fire at a Fresno chicken plant on Tuesday morning, authorities said, including the suspected gunman....

Roger Medina, 44, was on his way to pick up trophies for his soccer team when he saw a man in full meat-cutter gear running down the Central Fresno street, screaming. "Somebody's shooting!" the man yelled. "Get help!"...

A 25-year-old man was killed early Monday after his car was rear-ended on a transition road between the 5 and 134 freeways near Glendale, sending the vehicle down an embankment before it burst into flames. The Los Angeles man was stopped on the...