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Steve Bilko of the Los Angels Angels hits his 50th home run of the year in game against the Pacific Coast League Seattle Rainers at Wrigley Field....

While researching this image of the Calypso, an interesting story unfurled....

California public schools, along with public schools in 44 other states, are adopting a new set of standards. The Common Core State Standards (http://www.corestandards.org) for K-12 are a set of language arts and math standards developed to ensure that...

Richard D. Zanuck, left, confers with this father Fox President Darryl F. Zanuck at the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., annual meeting....

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One especially fascinating aspect of my job is sifting through medical history, something I was more than happy to do for my story on the resurgence of reported cases of whooping cough in Illinois and across the nation. You can find that story, which...

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came across this article from the February 1928 issue of “The American Mercury” while researching the 1910 bombing of The Times. It’s a bit difficult to determine from ProQuest precisely when Louis Sherwin [Hugo Louis Sherwin Golitz] worked for...

Photograph by Larry Harnisch / Los Angeles Times The fifth annual L.A. Archives Bazaar on Saturday at USC’s Doheny Library. I had the pleasure of being on one of the panels at the annual L.A. Archives Bazaar on Saturday at......

Los Angeles Times file photo Here’s another mystery photo I found in Mack Sennett’s file. Update: Alas, these young women aren’t identified on the back of the photo. It was supposedly published in The Times on June 27, 1948, and......

Los Angeles Times file photo I haven’t talked to a movie publicist since Brian De Palma’s ghastly “The Black Dahlia” came out, but I was recently bombarded with pitches to do some sort of story about the rather comical February.......

Los Angeles history in the 1900s is an acquired taste. Most people limit themselves to the Raymond Chandler era, the 1930s through the 1950s, as if Philip Marlowe moonlighted as a historian. Perhaps they find the city’s horse-and-buggy days too........