Brandon Lowrey

A hush falls over the lobby of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, and Gisele Batlle, 34, and Gema Rico, 39, stiffen suddenly in their baggy Michael Jackson T-shirts, their mouths agape. The two mothers from Barcelona left their children behind for a pilgrimage to L.A. on the fourth anniversary of Michael......

Just after a meeting with Metro officials, Howard Katz, a vice president for Casden Properties, sits in Grand Park downtown explaining why people shouldn't be fiercely fighting a massive apartment building and Target shopping center he wants to build at Pico and Sepulveda boulevards. "Casden West L.A." would be a......

On Christmas night in a quiet section of Old Town Pasadena, the sound of crunching, screeching car metal drew residents from their homes. A silver SUV, pursued ...

Linda Muse's ringing cellphone interrupted Thanksgiving dinner. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's homicide detective excused herself, abandoning a warm table of friends, relatives, turkey and cranberry sauce — and stepped back into a world of blood and horror. It would be the 32-year veteran's last interrupted holiday. Her retirement was......