Lonnie White dies at 49; Times sportswriter, USC football player

"South Los Angeles, in general, is short on street trees," said Malcolm Carson, general counsel and policy director with the nonprofit Community Health Councils. "So the idea that we're losing trees that are so valued … that take decades to grow, at a "South Los Angeles, in general, is short on street trees," said Malcolm … Read more

Officials tally damage from 5.1 earthquake; clean-up continues

Scott Martelle, writing in the L.A. Times: Here's a statistic for you. Out of 10,855 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals last year that dealt with some aspect of global warming, all but two accepted human behavior as the  WASHINGTON – The top U.S. and Russian diplomats agreed Sunday to work with Ukrainian officials to ease … Read more