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Digital media is changing the behavior of all moviegoers, but it's doing so very differently for varying age groups. That's what a group of around 100 online and studio marketing executives, as well as journalists, learned this afternoon yesterday at........

The koala, Australia's star symbol, is dying of stress. Koalas live in the rolling hills and flat plains where eucalyptus trees grow, because they need the leaves for both food and water. But as people move in, koalas are finding......

Social status in childhood appears to influence one's health in adulthood, according to a 30-year study published today. The study tracked more than 14,000 children born in Sweden in 1953. They were followed through 2003. When the children were in......

The nation???s census chief said Tuesday that the housing crisis, economic recession and waves of new immigrants pose enormous challenges that could make an accurate 2010 count more difficult and expensive in California and elsewhere than a decade ago....

Pastors representing 1,200 Latino evangelical churches in Southern California speak out today against calls to boycott the 2010 census by some Latino evangelical and political organizations. The boycott call, launched to protest the lack of progress on...

Influenza-like illnesses, presumed to be mostly pandemic H1N1 influenza, continued to increase on college campuses last week, according to weekly results from the American College Health Assn. There were 7,099 new cases reported among college...

Los Angeles County's homeless population has dropped 38% since 2007, according to a survey conducted this year by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The count, which was conducted over three days in January, pegs the region's homeless population...

Think your commute is bad? Others have it worse ??? unless you happen to live in Lake Elsinore. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday released new data showing how long it takes people to get to work. In Southern California,......

Analysis and full text of the senator's nuanced examination of the conflict....

DOHA, Qatar — Conservationists scored a rare victory at a U.N. wildlife meeting Monday when governments voted to reject contentious proposals by Tanzania and Zambia to weaken the 21-year-old ban on ivory sales over concerns it would further contribute...

'Dead' Bill Howard Now Living New Life The night of Nov. 16, 1958, I never quite made it to bed. The reason was William K. Howard, a man whose obituary three months before included the vital statistics that he had been a buddy of Mickey Cohen and had...

When California water officials look into the future, many of them see Australia: a vast, arid continent that has been suffering through drought for more than a decade. Severe shortages have prompted Australia to implement strict water-saving measures...