...Bye Iggy The Los Angeles Lakers have a deal in place to acquire Dwight Howard from Orlando in a four-team, eight-player trade also involving Denver and Philadelphia, and the NBA has scheduled a conference call Friday with the four general managers to finish the deal, according to multi... Read more...
Music subscription service Mog has been acquired by Beats Electronics. Terms of the deal, which first made the news back in March, were not disclosed. Mog founder and CEO David Hyman will stay on as CEO and report to Beats president and COO Luke Wood. Beats Electronics was founded in 2008 by ... Read more...
Last week, a trial in Brooklyn started off with a strange twist. At the federal criminal trial of James Rosemond -- a/k/a Jimmy Henchman -- one of the first things Rosemond's attorney did was kick an unemployed journalist named Chuck Philips out of the courtroom by naming him a witness in the case... Read more...
A soldier from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division with a dead insurgent's hand on his shoulder. It's one of 18 photos given to The Times of troops posing with corpses.An American soldier says he released the photos to the Los Angeles Times to draw attention to the safety risk of a breakdown in le... Read more...
Actors making pornographic movies in Los Angeles will be required to use condoms while filming, under a new law signed by the city mayor. The new regulation has been welcomed by health officials but pornography industry leaders say it could force them to abandon the city. LA's San Fernando V... Read more...
On the eve of the sport's formal re-opening for business after a five-month lockout, NBA commissioner David Stern sent shockwaves throughout the league Thursday night by nixing the league-owned New Orleans Hornets' plans to trade guard Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers. Within an hour of ... Read more...
If you were in Southern California on Thursday afternoon and happened to notice what looked like a skyscraper darting across the sky, you weren't seeing things. That was the Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle, the largest rocket ever to launch from the West Coast. Since the craft is 235 feet tall --... Read more...