Restraint of Trade

A Beverly Hills office building that once belonged to the famed William Morris Agency has been sold for $42 million to a Santa Monica real estate investment trust. Douglas Emmett Inc. paid New York investment firm Brickman $570 a foot......

Unabashed candor drew an abundance of laughs and a few gasps during Sunday’s Festival of Books session “Hollywood: Under the Bright Lights.” L.A. Times staff writer Steven Zeitchik led panelists in a lively conversation centering on...

"Over the border and through the cartels to Abuelita's casa we go," begins a recent commentary on the Mexican drug war, published Monday in the Kansas City Star (and also syndicated by Tribune Media Services). The line by columnist Mary Sanchez refers...

Upstarts at CES continued to announce products or technologies designed to bring the entire unfiltered Web to the TV screen....

Plug-in electric cars have been headline news for the better part of a year, with the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt finally entering the market as production cars. It's an unfortunate reality that mass-produced plug-in electric motorcycles, which have been.....

Apple Inc. is changing the rules about how e-books can be sold and accessed via its iPhone and iPad devices -- a move that may get the attention of regulators, one analyst said. Apple on Tuesday said it was changing its rules to require any vendors who...

Full text and selected excerpts of Judge Roger Vinson's federal court decision declaring the new healthcare law unconstitutional....

The New York Times set off a flurry of stories over the past couple of days when it reported that Apple had stopped Sony from selling e-books in the Sony Reader iPhone app. Apple instructed Sony and other app developers......

Mexican President Felipe Calderon strongly opposes the California ballot measure that would legalize small amounts of marijuana, saying it reflects softening attitudes toward drug consumption in the U.S. that are undercutting efforts to control...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Organized crime gangs equipped with automatic weapons and tractor trailers are branching out into raids on huge grain silos, in a sign of growing lawlessness in parts of Mexico's north. Attacks on warehouses and cargo trucks have...

  The Mexican drug kingpin was shackled to the railing of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter cruising up the coast of Baja California when he saw a curious sight: A hovering helicopter lowering somebody by rope onto the deck of a nearby boat. The dangling person...

Thirteen men were killed in a raid at a drug rehabilitation center in Tijuana, Mexican officials said Monday. Masked gunmen forced residents onto the floor at El Camino a la Recuperacion center and then sprayed them with bullets, officials said. The...