Newark (Alameda, California)

Well, there goes the budget for the L.A. Times Test Kitchen. One of the top 20 vote-getters in our first Battle of the Burgers is the "I Foie'd the Law" burger, which calls for a slab of foie gras on......

Former General Motors Co. Chief Executive Robert Stempel, an engineer who led the development of the catalytic converter but was ousted in a boardroom coup, died Saturday in Florida. He was 77. The cause of death was unclear, but family friends in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — United Airlines apologized Wednesday for briefly restarting use of flight numbers of two planes that crashed after being hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. Spokesman Rahsaan Johnson blamed the reuse of flight numbers 93 and...

His punching power thrills boxing loyalists, his charisma and Puerto Rican bloodline revive memories of Felix Trinidad, and he's an unbeaten world champion with 26 knockouts in 29 fights. Now Juan Manuel Lopez needs an attention-grabbing triumph like...

Dozens of Southern California flights to the East Coast have been canceled as blizzard conditions engulf a wide swath from the Carolinas to Massachusetts. Delta canceled all flights to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport; American Airlines scrapped 15...

TOURNAMENTS ATASCADERO Atascadero 72, Pioneer Valley 50 Santa Maria 35, Templeton 27 CATHEDRAL CITY Invitational Division Fairmont 69, Cathedral City 64 Miller 62, Colton 58 Harvard-Westlake 63, Corona Santiago 62 Las Vegas Silverado 57, El Camino Real 54...

Bank of America has announced the 14th season of its national “Museums on Us” program, which now includes 150 of the nation’s finest arts, cultural and educational institutions. Designed to increase access to the arts across the nation, the....

Former Glendale Police Chief Randy Adams is unlikely to get a pension windfall from his 2009 move to a $471,000-a-year job in the city of Bell, according to a California Public Employees' Retirement System official who testified at a public hearing on...

1, Nov. 16, 2008: Beat Georgia Tech 82-71 ( Storrs) 2, Nov. 20, 2008: Beat San Diego State 99-55 (Hartford) 3, Nov. 22, 2008: Beat Rhode Island 91-43 (Hartford) 4, Nov. 25, 2008: Beat BYU 96-47 (Provo, Utah) 5, Nov. 30, 2008: Beat Oklahoma 106-78...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a measure Monday allowing tens of thousands more Californians with environmentally friendly cars to drive solo in carpool lanes. As lawmakers worked late into the night Monday, the second to last day of the 2009-10...

California's controller will start paying many of the state's bills with IOUs as soon as Thursday after lawmakers failed to close the state's worsening budget deficit, adding a new measure of indignity to a state sinking deeper into dysfunction....

In 1941, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City organized "Organic Design for Home Furnishings," a competition opened to design teams from Latin America. The winning submissions earned the prize of having their designs industrialized and sold by the...