Eastern Medicines

For the last 20 years of her veterinary career, Vivian Grant has been stockpiling ideas on what she thinks would make an amazing animal hospital. Many of those ideas will come to fruition when her $3.8 million Autumn Green Animal Hospital opens next...

Apparently your tongue speaks volumes about your health without you saying a word. And this is why Lisa Lau, a Chicago herbalist, recently had me saying "Ahhhh." But that was as far as the examination went with Lau, whose clients call her "Dr. Lisa."...

While Los Angeles is a big perfume hub, the Bay Area more than holds its own. "San Francisco has a great artistic vibe.... There is a Wild West energy here … artists, chefs, chocolatiers, writers and designers cross-pollinate ideas regularly,"...

On "Magic City," a Starz television drama set in a glamorous Miami hotel in 1959, Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays a Cuban-American housekeeper training to be a Pan Am stewardess. She sizzles as a young woman coming of age and falling in love. In real life,...

The whispers started right away: Was Patrick Soon-Shiong, a Los Angeles billionaire-doctor-philanthropist-businessman, on the shortlist of potential buyers for entertainment giant AEG? Soon after the company put itself on the block Tuesday, Soon-Shiong...

Police have arrested a 43-year-old former student at a small religious college in Oakland, California, in the Monday shooting spree that left seven people dead and three wounded, the city's police chief said. The motive behind the killings at Oikos...

The man accused of killing seven people execution-style at a small religious college in Oakland, California, "does not appear to be remorseful at all," the city's police chief said Tuesday. Former student One Goh, 43, told authorities he was upset...

The police dispatcher’s voice is calm and measured. The reporting party, she said in recordings that surfaced Tuesday, “is advising shots are coming from inside the building. People are running out screaming.... There’s a female,...

The suspect in a mass shooting at a small Oakland college has been housed in a cell by himself and will remain there indefinitely, authorities said Wednesday. One Goh, 43, was charged with seven counts of murder with special circumstances......

College shooting: 'He was looking for me,' nursing director says...

The alleged gunman accused of fatally shooting seven people at a small Oakland college was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder with special circumstances and three counts of attempted murder, the Alameda County district attorney’s office...