Times were so giddy in the winter of 2009. Barack Obama, the first black president, a liberal Democrat, had taken office after a campaign about change.

John Wesley McCoy, 87, born on Dec. 19, 1922 in Los Angeles to Alice Croizier, passed away on Dec. 15, 2009 in Beaumont. John was a resident of Beaumont. He was a licensed practical nurse and served in the Navy and Air Force.

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Hip replacement is one of the most successful operations in all of medicine.

Members of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition are putting pressure on Santa Clarita Councilman Bob Kellar to apologize for comments he made at an illegal immigration rally in January.

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REYNOSA A former Harlingen missionary accused of buying babies from poor Mexican women for adoptive couples in the United States has been sentenced to nine years in prison, a Tamaulipas state judge said Tuesday.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--Gloucester Township has decided to apply to the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) for permission to install life-saving intersection cameras in its community to improve road safety for residents. The Township selected American Traffic Solutions, Inc.

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CLEVELAND Cavaliers guard Delonte West is still awaiting medical clearance to play.

Nearly everyone has a favorite teacher. I can distinctly remember two of mine, Ms. Paque and Ms. Collins. They were great educators, spinning torrents of exciting material out for their students to attempt to catch. They were pleasant and kind, but demanded extraordinary effort.

St. Louis-based Enterprise Holdings plans to begin using it as a component of the fuel for its fleet of more than 600 airport shuttle buses.

With the start of spring training less than two weeks away, the gap has narrowed somewhat between one year ago and 2010 in the number of former Independent players invited to major league camps as non-roster players.

The Republican propaganda that the Democrats are soft on terrorists is a distraction from the real issue: that the counterterrorism system needs to be fixed.

The ongoing but collapsing health care debate has evidenced America behaving badly, with some politicians resorting to scare tactics by going after the weakest in our society -- undocumented immigrants. The Senate version of the proposed health care reform bill is cruel and regressive in denying all federally subsidized health services to undocumented persons -- even if the undocumented attempt ...

Plaintiffs attorneys' assault on Toyota continues to move forward. Lawsuits were filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday on behalf of shareholders and a nationwide class of buyers of several Toyota hybrid models. Another lawsuit, brought in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday on behalf of California buyers of a Prius and a Lexus model, seeks damages for alleged breach of implied ...

For three weeks, an airport in Sanford that has operated for years in the shadow of Orlando International Airport was the center of attention as thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors were flown to the United States.

Five foreign-born players will be among the NBA all-stars playing Sunday at Cowboys Stadium in Arlin

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The Laguna Beach artist drew cartoons for the paper from 1962 until 1981. He also was a successful abstract Expressionist painter. Frank Interlandi, a former Los Angeles Times editorial cartoonist who was once part of a group of fun-loving fellow Laguna Beach cartoonists who regularly broke away from their drawing boards for midday gatherings at a local watering hole, has died. He was 85.

WASHINGTON If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice?

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have begun legal action against a British tabloid that reported the celebrity couple was going to split, a lawyer acting on their behalf confirmed Monday.

Kevin Roderick: Time again for the newest Southern California bestseller lists, fresh through Sunday's sales at local independent bookstores.

Photo by didier burton via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Los Angeles Magazine's CityThink project looks to our future and they're kicking off the newly formed think tank with a free short film competition that you're encouraged to enter. Of the 20 ways to spot a hipster , according to a piece of paper seen in an Echo Park laundromat, reason #5: "Complain about parking when its there [sic ...

The eerily familiar sound of a zipper enclosing an American solider inside a body bag echoed throughout the hot, endless Vietnam jungle.

The first Rose Bowl game took place in Pasadena, CA. Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opened in Los Angeles, CA. Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

Here are some movies to get you into the mood for the Winter Olympics, which begin Friday in Vancouver, British Columbia.

It is with mixed feelings that I bring the curtain down on Rich Marottas Neutral Corner after more than 11 years on the air. The show airs on AM570, KLAC in Los Angeles on Sunday mornings from 8-9AM.

Annette Bening plays a famed feminist in the American premiere of playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species, opening Feb. 10 after previews from Feb. 2 at Geffen Playhouse in California.

Mr. Magid was a marketing consultant who was widely credited with standardizing the face of local television news.