Rodney King

A rumpled pile of sheets. A Bloody Mary on an airline tray. Bags of mustard greens from a Korean grocery store. Gas station pumps, battered street signs, a steamed crab. These are among the everyday images encountered by artist and University of...

Top police officials, several elected city officials and a few hundred LAPD employees gathered on the lawn beneath the spare, windowless facade of the downtown building for a brief ceremony before LAPD Chief Charlie Beck symbolically padlocked the front...

Rush’s non-induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been one of the institution’s biggest criticisms. Now the argument has been taken away. Rush's Geddy Lee at Allentown Fair in 2010 Hall of Fame voters listened to us,......

Jenni Rivera, the Mexican American pop music singer who died in an airplane crash, came from a family that wielded an enormous influence on Mexican popular culture in Los Angeles....

In the first of a two-part look at the stories that had a lasting impact on Altadena in 2012, here are a few that might not seem obvious. Next week, we’ll highlight the most important stories of the year. Saving Lower Millard Canyon: Home to...

"The Black Box" By Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, 416 pages, $27.99 In 1992, Michael Connelly hit the ground running with his debut “The Black Echo,” which introduced LAPD detective Harry Bosch. That novel won the Edgar Award for best...

It's been two decades since the maverick Los Angeles homicide detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch made his debut in Michael Connelly's first novel, "The Black Echo." In 18 novels over that span, the hard-charging, short-tempered, fiercely independent Bosch...

Baltimore's next police commissioner is walking through a west-side neighborhood with some of the community's most engaged residents, but that's not enough for Anthony W. Batts. He wants to talk to a teacher sipping coffee on her porch. He jogs across...

Rodney King, a reluctant symbol of police brutality and the troubled relations between the Los Angeles Police Department and minorities, died after drowning in his backyard pool in Rialto in June with a cocktail of alcohol and drugs in his......

Before his death by accidental drowning, Rodney King spent the night and early morning hours drinking and smoking marijuana at his house in Rialto and was stumbling around his backyard moments before he fell into his swimming pool, according to the San...

LL Cool J isn't expected to face any criminal charges during a violent confrontation with a burglar at his home this week. The alleged burglar suffered a broken nose and jaw at the action star's hands Wednesday morning. But law......

The son Pepperdine University President Andrew K. Benton was arrested on campus Thursday in connection with a criminal threat investigation related to individuals living in his father’s home....