LOS ANGELES - A man fatally shot by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer at a Costco in Corona pushed the officer - but that does not justify the use of deadly force, an attorney representing his family said Tuesday. Civil rights attorney Dale K. G

DEAUVILLE, France - The U.S. team in this Women's World Cup is full of strong personalities. There's Megan Rapinoe, the outspoken activist who took a knee before a game in support of Colin Kaepernick. Alex Morgan, the girl next door who was on the co

LOS ANGELES_One year later, the influence of the 2018 NBA draft is felt all over the Los Angeles Clippers' roster. The Clippers used their two picks in last year's lottery to trade for point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and select shooting guard Jer

TORONTO - On the day the Angels reached .500 for the first time in more than two months, starting pitcher Tyler Skaggs walked into the Rogers Centre visiting dugout after the sixth inning of an eventual 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays Tuesday nigh

LOS ANGELES - On the fifth anniversary of his 15-strikeout no-hitter against the Colorado Rockies, a different Clayton Kershaw, an evolved version successfully adapting to the sobering constraints a decade of intense mileage on his arm, trotted out t

Most directors whose movies play the Cannes Film Festival are eager to fly to the south of France to walk the red carpet clad in black tie. But when his AIDS documentary "5B" was announced as part of the festival's program in May, Paul Haggis knew he

LOS ANGELES - For its faithful, the leader of La Luz del Mundo is "the apostle" of Jesus Christ. God made it so. Hundreds of thousands of parishioners gathered in Guadalajara last month to celebrate their leader's 50th birthday. They filled the stree

BUELLTON, Calif. - In a sandy draw of the Santa Rita Hills, a cannabis company is planning to erect hoop greenhouses over 147 acres - the size of 130 football fields - to create the largest legal marijuana grow on earth. Across the Santa Ynez River,

LOS ANGELES - The proposed $44-million deal between Harvey Weinstein, his former film studio's board and a number of women who have accused the disgraced movie mogul of sexual misconduct has hit another roadblock. The deal, which was already in jeopa

DEAUVILLE, France - Crystal Dunn watched the last Women's World Cup on television. Sometimes through tears. The last player cut from the U.S. team, she was crushed not to be in Canada. But from the depths of that disappointment, Dunn has emerged with

LOS ANGELES - Magic Johnson didn't make many right calls as the Lakers' president of basketball operations, so it's little wonder he credited the wrong people for the Anthony Davis trade. General manager Rob Pelinka didn't make the trade happen. Co-o

LOS ANGELES - The Electronic Entertainment Expo has never been subtle. But the event, hosted by the trade group representing the video game industry - the body designed to present the community's best image to Congress and the public at large - got r

Climate change is about big things: melting ice sheets, rising seas, the feverish temperature of the planet. But scientists say it's also about little things - namely, microbes. Everywhere you look on Earth, you'll find these single-celled organisms

Dear Los Angeles, try to find us. Dare you. We're camping 90 minutes from downtown and we didn't drop breadcrumbs along the way. When I post a photo online and ask friends to guess our whereabouts, no one has a clue. Hint: The journey up here was rem

LOS ANGELES - One day in 2016, as Arnulfo Gonzalez waited at a warehouse to pick up cargo, he stared at the filth caked on the back door of his box truck. After a moment of contemplation, he ran his finger on it. The Mexican immigrant once had ambiti

TOUQUES, France - When Carli Lloyd was in college, she was supremely talented, exceptionally athletic and, her coach remembers, super lazy. "Everything she did as a youth player came pretty easily to her," said Glenn Crooks, who coached Lloyd at Rutg

If there's anything that drives legitimate stem cell scientists up a wall, it's their being lumped in with clinics offering unwary customers supposedly effective disease treatments through stem cell injections. So you can understand why a documentary

WASHINGTON - Early in his improbable 2016 run for president, Donald Trump boasted he could shoot someone in the middle of New York's Fifth Avenue and "I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" President Trump will kick off his reelection campaign Tuesday at a

WASHINGTON - Four years and two days after he came down that "beautiful escalator" in Trump Tower in New York to formally announce his first run for the White House, President Donald Trump plans to launch his reelection campaign Tuesday night in a pa

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California leaders are calling for a giant pot of money to help electricity providers pay for wildfires, a critical move to head off another utility bankruptcy and prevent Wall Street from downgrading the state's utilities again.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Three quarters of California voters believe the state should restrain home building in areas at high risk of wildfires, a new survey has found. The University of California, Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Poll, prepar

This understanding allowed the Hunters to spend Campaign funds on certain personal matters they wished to conceal from the other. For example, Defendant hid from Hunter certain purchases she made with campaign funds for items like children's school l

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has been hectoring the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, and financial markets are screaming for a cut. This even though rates are historically low and the economy is sailing along, albeit with some recent g

"Today, the basketball gods smiled upon the Nets." In the summer of 2013, Mikhail Prokhorov, the Nets' billionaire owner, took a victory lap in the news release announcing his team's trade for a pair of future Hall of Famers. The cost to get Paul Pie

LOS ANGELES - It was a typical Friday night at Costco. The cavernous Corona store was packed, and customers waited in line for food samples - the quintessential Costco experience. An off-duty Los Angeles police officer, his wife and their baby were a

LOS ANGELES - A woman whose body was discovered over the weekend in a Costco parking lot in Bakersfield had been mauled by three dogs, according to police. The woman was found dead in the parking lot of the Costco store on Rosedale Highway about 6 a.

Gregg Berhalter's first competitive tournament as coach of the U.S. men's soccer team could mark an early turning point in his efforts to remake a program coming off its first failed World Cup qualifying campaign in more than three decades. The Ameri

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that if you are convicted in a state court of a criminal offense, the federal government can put you on trial again for essentially the same crime, and if you're convicted, your new sentence can be added to your

LOS ANGELES - For 25 years, a glittery sculpture of Marilyn Monroe has perched high above the "Four Ladies of Hollywood" gazebo - a statuesque gateway to the Walk of Fame. In the predawn hours of Monday morning, Marilyn went missing. LAPD's Hollywood