Bob Bagwell, 83, began with the paper as a pressman in 1947. He plans how the presses are configured each day to accommodate news and ads. A team will replace him.Not many people can count on a 65-year career at the same newspaper.

Once, driving was a pleasure. But spending a large portion of the day on the 405 Freeway is too much of a good thing.The pursuit began somewhere in Fountain Valley. Authorities said she had been spotted siphoning gas. They chased her as she zigged and zagged on the northbound 405 all the way to Culver City where they finally nabbed her. The photo of her arrest was splashed across several columns o...

Retired criminal defense attorney Joe Ingber remembers his late wife, Eileen, on her birthdays and on the anniversary of the day she died of cancer in 2002.I was on my way into the office Tuesday morning when I heard someone call my name. Over my shoulder, I saw a snow-topped gent rise from his seat in the Spring Street lobby of The Times.

The newspaper plans to use the two-year grant from the Ford Foundation to hire journalists who will focus on immigrant communities, the California prison system, the border region and Brazil.The Los Angeles Times will use a $1-million grant from the Ford Foundation to expand its coverage of key

The paper wins a total of 20 journalism awards in the Better Newspaper Contest, sponsored by a trade group. The San Jose Mercury News wins first place among large papers for general excellence.The Los Angeles Times won Newspaper of the Year for 2011 among the state's largest daily newspapers

The issue arises with the pending release of Broad's book. He says in an interview that he would like to 'partner with others' to take control of the newspaper.Five years after his partnership lost a bid to buy Tribune Co.and the Los Angeles Times, billionaire businessman Eli Broad said he remains interested in joining with others to restore local ownership to The Times.

For one reporter, fear of being mistaken for Korean yields to concerns about gray hair and household finances. But tensions between older and newer immigrants are a lingering challenge.Recently, I was jarred to read an essay that ran on the front page of this newspaper two decades ago. "Suddenly

Long Beach and a police officers group ask justices to overturn a Superior Court ruling that the city must provide the names of officers involved in shootings.Echoing arguments that have repeatedly been made in Southern California courts in recent years, a city, its police union and a newspaper

Seventy-one years after William Randolph Hearst tried to derail Orson Welles' famous film about a newspaper tycoon, it will be shown at the sprawling hillside estate that bears his name.When the film "Citizen Kane" came out in 1941, William Randolph Hearst gave it an unequivocal two thumbs down.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jase Daniels, 29, was discharged in 2007 after he was featured in a story in the Stars & Stripes newspaper about gay military personnel. He will report soon to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, his attorneys announced.A Navy linguist discharged

, the editor of the local newspaper, approached with a question for his weekly Sidewalk Talk feature.

For Angelenos, home is often a place unrecognizable from our memory.When I became a reporter for this newspaper in the late 1980s, my work sent me to corners of my native city I'd never visited.

At the corner of Crenshaw and Slauson, Nation of Islam adherent Brian Muhammad hawks bean pies and the group's newspaper — a ritual that goes back decades in cities across the U.S.As the light turned red at the intersection of Crenshaw and Slauson, Brian Muhammad raised two pink pie boxes

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the Boeing auditors were not entitled to protection from a 2002 act of Congress because they leaked their information to a newspaper instead of appropriate authorities. Boeing had fired the auditors.Two auditors who helped expose violations in Boeing Co

The California Newspaper Publishers Assn.'s 2010 Better Newspapers Contest winners are announced at an annual convention in Los Angeles.Newspapers owned by Los Angeles Times Media Group won 15 awards Saturday at the 2010 Better Newspapers Contest, a yearly competition held by the California

Otto 'Swede' Meyerhofer was the first member of the onetime resort city's aerial police force — and one of the first sky cops in the nation. For all the talk of them as crime fighters, a newspaper foresaw another valuable role: publicity vehicles.When Otto "Swede" Meyerhofer joined the Venice

line on a recent afternoon, fielding calls from men around the country enticed by newspaper and radio a...

13, and the column ticked off hordes of senior citizens — the most loyal of all newspaper read...

Former state Atty. Gen. John K. Van De Kamp said he thought he was being interviewed for a newspaper article, not a promotional campaign for the scandal-plagued city. A prominent attorney who was hired by Vernon to do an independent audit of its scandal-tainted City Hall criticized city officials

For basketball without binoculars, the Clippers and Sparks play the best games in town.All right, I'm going to admit something today, and then hide the newspaper when it hits my driveway. I can't let my wife see this column.

Westmont College bars 'homosexual practice.' But a letter to the campus newspaper from 31 gays and lesbians describing their 'doubt, loneliness and fear' while they were students has roiled the school.When Melissa Durkee was in her senior year at Westmont College, her grades were outstanding

A WWII vet who came to L.A. to work in the defense industry continues to sing the praises of the state and the city despite dramatic changes and hard times.Kenneth Larson's California life began when he opened the pages of a Los Angeles newspaper.

Following reports in the paper that Sheriff Lee Baca had intervened in a Beverly Hills landlord dispute, department e-mails warn employees about speaking with reporters. Officials say the notes were routine policy reminders.Just days after The Times published a story revealing that Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca had personally launched a criminal investigation on behalf of a political donor, ...

City officials are looking for a new way to keep the information in front of the public as a deterrent, now that the local newspaper has stopped publishing it.Huntington Beach is considering a new tactic in its crusade against drunk driving: public shaming on Facebook.

Deputies don't know why John Wesley Ewell, accused of killing four, kept an account of Lonnie Franklin's arrest in July.Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies found a copy of a newspaper announcing the arrest of the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer suspect in the car of a Harbor Gateway handyman charged

The popular annual literary event was held at UCLA for 15 years. But talks between the newspaper and university foundered on cost and logistical issues.The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will move its weekend-long celebration of the written word to the USC campus next spring after 15

The Times made public an analysis of L.A. Unified third- through fifth-grade teachers based on student test scores.National and local teachers unions sharply criticized The Times on Sunday when the newspaper published a database of about 6,000 third- through fifth-grade city school teachers ranked

" of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to es...

issued an unusual order Wednesday in which she told a newspaper photographer not to publish pictures...

More than 400 people take part in a five-mile trek along one of Marc Abrams' favorite routes through the neighborhood to honor the doctor, who died Wednesday. Most residents of Silver Lake had encountered Marc Abrams on his daily walkabout, shirtless, in brightly colored running shorts, maneuvering the busy ...