Daishen Nix, a top point guard recruit, will forgo a likely one-and-done season at UCLA to join the G League select team.

Three people were given vital fire survival guidance

Firefighters rescued a man from the second floor of the building using a fire escape hood

Firefighters tackle a fire in a Maisonette

Six fire engines were at the scene

Firefighters rescued one man

Ten fire engines were at the scene

The jazz musician's work won nearly a dozen Grammy Awards.

The painting of a Parisian street scene by Impressionist master Camille Pissarro hangs in a Madrid museum and is the focus of an ongoing legal battle.

The Communist government kept Thich Quang Do in prison or under house arrest for more than 20 years.

David Roback, best known as the co-founder of influential L.A. alternative rock bands Mazzy Star and Rain Parade, has died at age 61.

Fisher helped implement the reforms that rebuilt the Los Angeles Police Department after the Rodney G. King scandal and the 1992 riots.

Battista, the original host of CNN's "TalkBack Live," has died after a four-year battle with cervical cancer.

Swedish actor Max von Sydow, the stately import whose theater roots laid the groundwork for a vast onscreen career in nearly a dozen Ingmar Bergman productions, has died.

Yaro tutored the actor who played Animal, the rumpled photographer on "Lou Grant"

The founder of the Museum of California Design organized shows related to women in design and California pottery.

The artist, musician and iconoclast — best known as part of the influential industrial band Throbbing Gristle — had been battling leukemia.

The Russian dissident and author Eduard Limonov, who vocal opposition was a persistent thorn in the Kremlin's side, dies at 77.

Norris also oversaw the installation of the Kinetic Light Installation at LAX, which helped change the airport's main gate.

His fight to enroll his son in a largely white school sparked the use of busing as a means of desegregation

Joseph E. Lowery, civil rights leader who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 98.

Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, known for his monumental orchestral and choral compositions, died in Krakow at 86.

The Mexican immigrant, who arrived in the 1950s, was 'possibly one of the best organizers that I have ever known, male or female,' an activist noted.

Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85.

Shirley Douglas, the Canadian activist and actress, mother to actor Kiefer Sutherland and daughter of Canada medicare founder Tommy Douglas, died Sunday. She was 86.

Mort Drucker's illustrations of politicians and celebrities for Mad magazine inspired generations of artists

Phyllis Lyon and her longtime partner were among the first same-sex couples to marry in California.

A local poet and lifelong environmental activist, MacAdams dedicated his life to restoring the Los Angeles River.

Alby Kass, a victim of a coronavirus-related infection, was lead singer of a Yiddish folk group, Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble, and a theater performer.

Brookside is an enclave in Mid-Wilshire that is named for the water that runs from the Hollywood Hills through the neighborhood and out to Ballona Creek.

Celery is today's star vegetable. Here's how to grow your own at home for taller stalks and more robust taste.

The Year of the Rat is being embraced by merchandise designers in all sorts of ways, including on iPhone cases, fabric prints and fashion accessories.

At the mercy of Mother Nature, Mt. Waterman has reopened. Snow is good at the landmark resort in the Angeles National Forest. It will be running on Saturdays and Sundays.

We drove the 2020 Genesis G90, the latest flagship from Hyundai's luxury arm: It's rich on details and sophisticated systems and discounted on price.

What do I know about anything? But these pre-measured meals are helping us kick the winter doldrums.

There's something for everyone in Torrance's historic downtown district, and the parking is free: Here's how to spend four hours there.

A new outfitter brings all-inclusive camping to the 67-mile Backbone Trail.

Malibu has long been associated with cars full of beachgoers and staggering cliffside mansions — but there's much more to these "21 miles of scenic beauty."

We raised four kids in this old house. There were birthdays and proms, bloody knees and Scout meetings. We changed a million diapers here. We matched a lot of socks.

Ghosting gets a worse rep than it deserves, in my opinion. As both a former ghoster and a ghostee, I find it way more merciful than a text with stupid excuses.

The secret car lairs of L.A. are under the radar and plentiful. Check out one of the latest: a state-of-the-art garage near LAX that is part Pantheon, part Batcave. Cigars? They have that too.

Tucked away in the San Gabriel Valley, West Covina offers a bit of an escape from the traffic-and-concrete of Los Angeles. While the big source of commercial business is at the Plaza West Covina, there several shops to explore off the beaten path.

My therapist was pushing me to date more, which is hard when you're a teacher and can't go out "on a school night." But I'm getting myself out there. L.A. traffic willing.

This is the earliest Tomatomania has started in its 30-year-plus history, with 11 sales events scheduled between Santa Barbara and San Diego counties.

No matter how hard I tried, plastic kept sneaking its way back into my life.

Stroll and get inspired at 2020 Southern California garden tours.

Collectors seeking rare plants flock to "plant drops" at Highland Park plant shop Leaf and Spine.

Millions of people around the world might be working from home for a while. Try to enjoy it.

Feeling housebound? Get out and hike, an expert says, as long as you keep your six-foot distance.

Together we had woven a 10-year on-again-off-again story so obnoxious, the jokes we made about being like a couple straight out of a sitcom started feeling like a twisted reality.