Jesus Sanchez

United Airlines grounded departing flights across the nation for about two hours this morning after one of its computer systems failed. Computer operations resumed at 8 a.m. PDT but not before triggering systemwide flight delays, United Airlines...

Anyone wondering whether Americans have the nerve to keep spending despite a rattled economy might have been cheered by the Friday morning scene at Fry's Electronics in Fountain Valley. And by the chutzpah of Sawmon Jahagiri, who paid $40 to a more...

Yesterday, Google Inc. agreed to purchase YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock in a deal that will combine the Internet's largest search engine and its most popular site to watch video. The transaction, which had been widely expected, comes after...

Jesus Sanchez is a 20-year veteran of the Times. The Los Angeles native is one of the original members of the paper's web reporting staff, but didn't start on the first day because his computer didn't work. When not sitting in front of a (working)...

Heath Ledger, whose chiseled good looks made him a heartthrob to millions and who won movie fame for playing a tragic homosexual cowboy, was found dead in a Manhattan apartment today, police said. The body of the Australian actor, who won an Academy...

(WGN-AM)- A spate of killings in recent days has set Hanover Park officials on edge as the suburb is faced with another possible homicide after two violent murders in as many days. Local police and the DuPage County Major Crimes Task Force were...

(WGN-AM)- Bond for a 16-year-old Hanover Park teen arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a man at a party and the wounding of his brother over the weekend was set at $900,000 Monday in Cook County Circuit Court. Jahaziel Duron, of the 1600...

(WGN-AM)- Hanover Park police confirmed Saturday that they are investigating a fourth homicide in the community, that of a woman found dead in her home Saturday evening. Hanover Park Police Chief David Webb would only confirm that a homicide...

Business software maker PeopleSoft today agreed to a sweetened $10.3 billion takeover offer from rival Oracle, ending one of the longest and most bitter corporate feuds on record. The announcement was a major victory for Oracle chief executive Larry...

Boeing's former chief financial officer was sentenced today to four months in prison and fined $250,000 for illegally offering a job to a former Air Force official while she was negotiating a multibillion-dollar contract with the aerospace giant. Michael...

Financial markets rebounded today from morning losses in the wake of a heightened terrorist alert that left many of the nation's most prominent financial institutions — including the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan and the International...

Home builder stocks tumbled today after the government said that nationwide new home sales took a nose dive in November, falling 12% from the previous month in the largest monthly drop in a decade. The disappointing new home sales report was the...