The Justice Department has petitioned to join a lawsuit challenging LAUSD's decades-old desegregation policy that provides extra resources and smaller classes to predominantly minority schools.
U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu smiled through a monster free program, clinching the figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Milan on Thursday.
The L.A. County Department of Public Health has confirmed its fourth measles case of the year. The infected individual flew into LAX and visited a few San Gabriel Valley fast food restaurants.
After a scoreless first period, the Americans fall behind early in the second period and need a late goal to force overtime, when Megan Keller scores the winner.
Tim Harris, who was part of the organization for more than three decades, will be replaced by new owner Mark Walter's business partner with the Dodgers.
Snoop Dogg, Olympics commentator and honorary coach, sends Winter Games tickets to the owners of a restaurant that paid his dinner bill after his credit card was declined.
Actor Peter Greene's cause of death has been revealed by the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. He was found dead in his apartment in mid-December.
Many of the women who were caught in the deadly avalanche Tuesday north of Lake Tahoe were among a close group of friends who loved to spend time in the mountains.
Actor Eric Dane, best known for wooing 'Grey's Anatomy' audiences as plastic surgeon Dr. Mark 'McSteamy' Sloan, died after a public battle with ALS. He was 53.
The game "senior assassin," in which high school students shoot one another with water guns, can be risky if the water guns look real, police said.

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