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Kevin Roderick: Jay Leno's overall audience is bigger than Conan O'Brien's was in the Tonight show chair, but it's way off what Leno used to get. And in the key demographic that advertisers look for, well, Leno is no Conan.
Kevin Roderick: LA Observed columnist Bill Boyarsky, writing for the second time on the teacher effectiveness series that has been getting so much attention for the Los Angeles Times, argues that the debate over the stories is being over-simplified.
Kevin Roderick: LA Observed columnist Bill Boyarsky, writing for the second time on the teacher effectiveness series that has been getting so much attention for the Los Angeles Times, argues that the debate over the stories is being over-simplified.
Iris Schneider: After taking the call that the state wants to send him back to prison, Bruce Lisker says "I just need to stay focused on the tasks ahead: school, love, life and staying in a spiritually and emotionally healthy place."
Kevin Roderick: In Part 6 of The Lisker Chronicles at LA Observed, Bruce Lisker is hit with the state's move to send him back to prison, just as he celebrates his one-year anniversary of freedom.
Day Four. The Dodgers are 7.5 games out of the wild card.
Dodger fans may have soured on Frank and Jamie, but they've got a friend in Judge Scott Gordon. By trying to speed this t...
Bill Boyarsky: An important part of the dispute is whether the evaluations are accurate and whether the Times has done enough to make the readers aware of the limitations of value-added.
David Rensin: The book collaborator is also a psychologist, confidant, interlocutor, and supportive friend. We defuse fears, hang out, massage egos, play Devil's Advocate, call our "authors" on the bullshit - gently. We have to be both honest and kind. And politic. Otherwise we're worthless.
The California Attorney General's office on Thursday stated it was reconsidering a bid to put Bruce Lisker, the man wrongly convicted in the murder of his mother, back in prison. "We're ce...
Kevin Roderick: Sure, it's already Thursday and the Emmys were Sunday. But now, Bruce Springsteen has apparently given NBC the OK to post the full video of Jimmy Fallon's "Glee" spoof.
The state of California does not have to defend Prop. 8, the law the prohibits same-sex marriage, in court, leaving open the possibility that a recent court decision overturning the ban will...
Attorney General Jerry Brown filed papers Wednesday seeking to return a man to prison who spent 26 years in jail for being wrongfully convicted of killing his mother, according to court do...
Kevin Roderick: One of the side notes of this week's McCourt vs. McCourt trial involves the press release the new owners of the Dodgers sent out in 2004 crowing about how Frank...
In a recent informal survey of Los Angeles Metro riders, 54 percent who participated indicated that they don't like the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's new Transit Action Pass (TAP) ...
Mark Lacter: We can all relax - the USC game will be on tonight, as will "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy."
Kevin Roderick: When Manny Ramirez met the media for his debut moment with his new Chicago team, the graduate of New York public schools answered in Spanish through coach Joey Cora.
Welcome to Labor Day Weekend Southern California. Now stay home. The Los Angeles Police Department is setting up more check points than a communist era Balkan republic. Seriously.
So no co...
Kevin Roderick: LAPD detectives said today they are confident that Janet M. Barrie owned the trunk that contained the mummified remains of a fetus and possibly a newborn baby. Barrie, born in...
Mark Lacter: The five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath Bev Hills residence, built in 1923, is listed at $12.5 million.
Fascinating new discoveries in the case of the two mummified babies, likely from the 1930s, found last month wrapped in a steam trunk in the basement of a Westlake apartment building.
An LA...
Frank McCourt is back on the stand for his third day of testimony, which I'm sure he hopes will also be his last.
He held up pretty well on Wednesday, but this morning David Boies...
This week California saw it's first medical marijuana dispensary advertisement. The spot (after the jump) for Sacramento's CannaCare pot shop ran on that city's KTXL Fox affiliate, according...
The former president of one of California's most-prominent unions was sentenced on Thursday to four months in prison and three months of home confinement after he defrauded a nonprofit organ...
Kevin Roderick: With time clocks a foreign concept in the Los Angeles Times newsroom, a top editor sends out a memo reminding the staff that everyone must be trained in the new "time and attendance system."
Summer's late, like Pamela Anderson to an interview, but we'll take what we can get. On Thursday the county of Los Angeles issued a "heat alert," warning that it'll be a blazer Friday and Sa...
Mark Lacter: Putting aside the plastic bag and budget failures, the legislative session ended with 98 bills being passed on Tuesday.
Mark Lacter: Ordinary, anyone who has been in front of a live camera and blanked out might feel for the Arizona governor's stunningly bad performance.
Mark Lacter: They happen when the economy continues to grow but not strongly enough to generate significant numbers of jobs.
Mark Lacter: Man is charged with 23 felonies for allegedly tricking five people into unknowingly granting him title to their homes.