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Los Angeles Times sports writer Mike Penner, who announced two years ago he was a transsexual and was changing his name to Christine Daniels, has died at age 52, the newspaper reported Saturday.
Sirius XM Radio said Thursday that Gary Parsons has resigned as chairman and a member of the board and will be succeeded by Los Angeles Times publisher and CEO Eddy W. Hartenstein as non-executive chairman.
Tribune Co., the owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other news outlets, said Tuesday it will pay back $170 million worth of outstanding "debtor-in-possession" debt, which it took out to pay for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
Tribune Co., owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and several other news outlets, will not use most Associated Press content next week to test whether the financially struggling company can do without it, according to a story on the Chicago Tribune's Web site.
Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covered the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal for the Los Angeles Times and was the paper's Washington bureau chief for 20 years, died Wednesday. He was 80.
Machine gun-firing rebels on motorbikes attacked a prison Wednesday, springing a guerrilla commander charged with kidnapping two journalists on assignment for the Los Angeles Times.
The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are breaking up their news service after 47 years, making it the latest casualty of the media upheaval driven by the array of alternative information and entertainment sources on the Internet.
The U.S. Forest Service ordered its supervisors to reduce the use of state and local firefighters three weeks before a deadly Los Angeles County wildfire erupted, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
The Colombian Supreme Court has denied a U.S. request to extradite a rebel commander accused of ordering the 12-day kidnapping in 2003 of two journalists on assignment for The Los Angeles Times.
The Los Angeles Times has picked Nicholas Goldberg, the newspaper's deputy editorial page editor, to take charge of the opinion section.
"Project Runway" tackles a new city and a new network. Plus: Quentin Tarantino scalps Nazis with "Inglourious Basterds': and a riveting documentary examines the troubled times of "Tyson."
Despite the singer's apparent heavy usage of medications, his will to live, and to perform, was still strong, a source says.
A person with knowledge of the situation says Michael Jackson has died in Los Angeles. The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity, says the King of Pop died at age 50 in a Los Angeles hospital.
Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano has pleaded not guilty to threatening a Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote about one of his high-powered clients.
Inspiring, relevant and real, the story of Nathaniel Ayers — a schizophrenic but wildly talented Juilliard-trained cellist living on the streets of downtown L.A. — captivated Los Angeles Times readers in 2005.
Sitting through “The Soloist” is not unlike watching a dieter resisting a bowl of chocolates; this drama, based on a true story as told by a Los Angeles Times columnist, keeps skirting the gassy clichés of the uplifting triumph-of-the-underdog movie before ultimately surrendering to soppy sentimentality.
The Los Angeles Times has lent some credibility to the phrase that you can't believe everything you read in the newspaper — even if it's on Page One.
The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times are combining their international reporting operations as their corporate parent tries to save money while reorganizing in bankruptcy court.
In a courtroom where victims denounced him and still-devoted parishioners embraced him, a former Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for molesting a boy in the late 1980s.
Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy filing gives the struggling newspaper and television station owner time to put its finances in order, and complete the difficult task of finding buyers for some of its troubled properties amid a dismal advertising environment.
Hollywood's studio heads, stuck in a standoff with the Screen Actors Guild, are making their plea to the rest of the industry in a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times as the threat of a strike looms.
Tribune Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, other newspapers and the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, said Monday it swung to a loss of $121.6 million for the third quarter as newspaper advertising revenue fell.
Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin accused the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday of protecting Barack Obama by withholding a videotape of the Democrat attending a 2003 party for a Palestinian-American professor and critic of Israel. The paper said it had written about the event in April and would not release the tape because of a promise to the source who provided it.
Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin accused the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday of protecting Barack Obama by withholding a videotape of the Democrat attending a 2003 party for a Palestinian-American professor and critic of Israel. The paper said it had written about the event in April and would not release the tape because of a promise made to the source who provided it.
Voters oppose putting gay marriage back on the ballot, Times/USC poll finds | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles TimesA small majority of California voters supports the right of gay couples to marry, but a much larger portion of voters opposes efforts to place the issue back on the ballot next year, a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll has found.
The ReportOn Tuesday, October 20, 2009, a Ministerial Committee on National Security convened for the first time in Israel to discuss the implications of the Goldstone Report recently adopted by the UN Human Rights Council.
UCLA prof.: Suspect's mental health a concernA UCLA professor said he told a university administrator 10 months ago of his concerns about the mental health of a student now accused of stabbing a fellow student in the throat in a chemistry lab.
Major newspapers disappear Sessions' alleged history of racial insensitivityOn July 14, five major newspapers reported on Jeff Sessions' opening statement at the confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor without noting that, in 1986, Sessions' nomination as a U.S.
Head of CA GOP Voter Registration Effort Pleads Guilty to Voter Registration FraudJacoby and Young Political Majors was hired by the California Republican Party to head up their voter registration efforts in the state.
Joe Wright's "The Soloist" Exploits The Skid Row CommunityWhat I uncovered on Skid Row is a malaise more perverse than Mr. Wright's orgiastic assault on the poor and the mentally ill.
7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream MediaIn the olden days when shoes were a luxury and smallpox was a right of passage, men like William Randolph Hearst used their complete control over communication airwaves to tell the general populace whatever lie happened to be convenient (see marijuana is evil) or interesting (see …
Oprah helps give away KFC grilled chicken - By the Way, she Received PETA 2008 Person Of Year RewardOprah Winfrey is buying everyone 2 piece meal deal consisting of Free 2 Piece Grilled Chicken, 2 sides and a Biscuit. It was promoted on today show on Tuesday, May 5th 2009.
"The predominant attribute of the right-wing movement is self-victimizing petulance over the unfair treatment to which they are endlessly and mercilessly subjected."Exemplifying the deeply self-pitying theme of the entire discussion, Jonah continuously insisted that conservative magazines are so very, very important to the political landscape -- indispensably so -- because conservative voices are frozen out of mainstream media venues by The …
Wilderness protection bill gets Congress' OKCongress on Wednesday approved the largest expansion of the wilderness system in 15 years, bestowing the highest level of federal protection on 2 million acres in nine states and launching one of the most ambitious river restoration efforts in the West.
Federal judge postpones medical marijuana sentencingA federal judge in Los Angeles this morning postponed the sentencing of a man who emerged as a key figure in the national debate over medical marijuana, saying he wanted additional information about a reported change in the Justice Department's policy regarding such prosecution …
College speaking 101 - Los Angeles TimesWhere is the upholding of the right of free speech in this situation?
LA Times cuts staffAmerica's struggling newspaper industry suffered another blow from the financial turmoil as the Los Angeles Times announced on Friday it was cutting hundreds of jobs and downsizing the paper in the fight against "economic realities".
LA Times Writer Praises JihadTVLos Angeles Times writer Ashraf Khalil complains that the Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera isn't available in the US, and as evidence of their excellent reporting he shows a video clip by an Al Jazeera reporter trolling hospital beds in Gaza: In praise of Al Jazeera.
Obama will stick to tax promise, his aides say - Los Angeles TimesBarack Obama promise to deliver on tx cuts he pledged during his campaign.
Five convicted of plotting terror attack on Ft. Dix - Los Angeles TimesFive convicted of plotting a terrorist attack on Fort Dix.
All is well that ends Zell by Marty KaplanMarty Kaplan, the Norman Lear professor of entertainment, media and society at the USC Annenberg School, has an interesting take on the trials and tribulations of the Tribune Company, the Los Angeles Times and Sam Zell.
Tribune Files for Bankruptcy - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York TimesNewspapers continue to struggle, with the Tribune Company filling for bankruptcy today, because of declining ad revenues. Tribunes join a long list of newspaper companies who are on the verge of folding. Gannett Corporation laid of 10% of its workforce last week.
MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others dupedNEW YORK – MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
Michelle Obama's election outfit gets dressing-downInstead of following President-elect Barack Obama's victory speech on Tuesday, fashion-watchers were closely examining his wife Michelle's dress - and the verdict was not so good.
Michelle Obama's election outfit gets dressing downInstead of following President-elect Barack Obama's victory speech on Tuesday, fashion-watchers were closely examining his wife Michelle's dress - and the verdict was not so good.
Michelle Obama's election outfit gets dressing downInstead of following President-elect Barack Obama's victory speech on Tuesday, fashion-watchers were closely examining his wife Michelle's dress - and the verdict was not so good.
Michelle Obama's election outfit gets dressing downInstead of following President-elect Barack Obama's victory speech on Tuesday, fashion-watchers were closely examining his wife Michelle's dress - and the verdict was not so good.
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