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Patt Morrison: California settled no-fault divorce decades ago. Why is it back in the news?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 month agoJust look at the happy couple — Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan arriving at a movie premiere in 1942....
Patt Morrison: L.A. used to be awash in beauty pageants. Where'd they go?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe big pageants like Miss America are nowhere near the cultural touchstones they once were. And the...
The sordid tale of L.A.'s forever war on smog
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLos Angeles' first documented smog attack — yes, we had smog attacks — was in 1943. We've been fighting the sources of pollution and the quirks of...
Patt Morrison: Confederate sentiment in Southern California ran deeper than you might know
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThis week marks the anniversary of Robert E. Lee's surrender near the end of the Civil War. Southern...
NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton dies at 71
CBS News via Yahoo Sports· 1 month agoBill Walton, the dominant college big man who won two NBA championships and later enjoyed a successful career as a colorful sports broadcaster, has died,...
Karen Bass may soon be the first woman elected L.A. mayor. Here's who blazed the trail
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt's yet to be determined if Karen Bass will break the long string of men who have held L.A.'s...
How Lloyd Wright's Infamous Sowden House Might Be Connected to the Unsolved Black Dahlia Case
House Beautiful via Yahoo News· 9 months agoInside a Historic Home Where Old Hollywood PartiedCourtesy of Steve Hodel The full story of the...
The most popular tech gadget from the year you were born
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 3 months agoSteve Jobs holding the first generation iPhone in 2007.Jon Furniss/Wireimage Technology has...
How anti-union was L.A.? The LAPD once arrested a famous author for reading the 1st Amendment
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoUpton Sinclair, the author of 'The Jungle,' ran up against L.A.'s anti-labor authorities 100 years...
10 of the bestselling individual books of all time
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCalculating book sales since the beginning of time is complicated, but recent standardization has made it easier. Read for the top ten most selling books...