Jack Ruby

Aberdeen Wings captain Cory Ward of Las Vegas was named one of the best players in the North American Hockey League this week. The forward was one of six players named to the NAHL All-Central Division Team. Last year, Ward made the NAHL All-Rookie...

Shel Hershorn, a photojournalist who documented the tumult of the 1960s and then dropped out to live a rustic lifestyle in northern New Mexico, died Sept. 17 at a nursing home in Espanola, N.M. He was 82. Born in Denver on June 11, 1929, Herbert...

1521: Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X. 1938: The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was organized. 1966: Northwestern Bell Telephone Co is introducing its new “push-button” telephone in the Aberdeen...

Brentwood residents won't guess what auctioneer Nate D. Sanders has dug up. "It's Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin," Laura Yntema, one of Sanders' managers, explained at his auction house tucked behind a row of Barrington Avenue apartment units. A funeral home....

A wooden coffin that once held the remains of President John F. Kennedy’s assassin has sold for $72,890, according to a Brentwood auction company....

Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic representative, is among the wounded in the Tucson shootings....

Terrance W. McGarry, a former Los Angeles Times Valley edition reporter and assistant city editor whose previous work for United Press International included coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy, died Tuesday of a rare brain disease at his...

Just as people of this generation will always remember where they were on Nine-Eleven, those who were alive on November 22, 1963 will always remember their whereabouts on the day President John F. Kennedy was killed. Kennedy was shot and killed as his...

LOS ANGELES -- The coffin that once held the body of presidential assasin Lee Harvey Oswald has been sold to an anonymous bidder, but Oswald's brother is disputing the sale. Robert L. Oswald, 76, said he didn't know the coffin still existed until he read...

I knew it. I never lost faith. I knew that if I waited long enough, we would get a hook into the city of Bell story, and on Tuesday morning, we did. That was when former Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo, who is presently between engagements, was...

AFTERMATH: Repercussions from a horrific multi-car accident reach far and wide in the conclusion of 'Masterpiece Contemporary: Collision' at 9 p.m. on KCET. SERIES Cold Case: The team reopens a 1983 case, originally investigated by Stillman (John Finn),...

There's nothing the hipster demographic likes to do more than flog a trend to death, and in recent weeks I've found myself fighting the urge to run pell-mell through the streets of Echo Park, knocking stingy-brim fedoras off every third......