Los Angeles Times

A plaintiff’s attorney says billionaire Alki David has been hit with more than $58 million in damages after a jury found him liable for battery, sexual battery and sexual harassment against a former employee. Attorney Gloria Allred says jurors on Monday ordered David to pay $50 million in punitive damages to a former production assistant who worked at David’s media...

A Hollywood executive wanted Julia Roberts to portray Harriet Tubman in the leading abolitionist’s biopic, the screenwriter of the new film “Harriet” said. After studying Tubman’s life in college, where she helped lead enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad, screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard was determined to adapt Tubman’s story into a feature film, he told Focus Features, the...

Over the course of its 15 year history, Facebook has variously ignored news organizations while eating their advertising revenue, courted them for video projects it subsequently abandoned, and then largely cut their stories out of its newsfeeds . Now it plans to pay them for news headlines — reportedly millions of dollars in some cases. Enter the “News Tab,” a...

The organization that hosts the Emmy Awards show responded Thursday to Mindy Kaling’s claims that early on in her career, it attempted to remove her producer credit from “The Office.” She was the only female producer of color on the show at the time. In an interview with Elle published Wednesday, Kaling claimed that the Television Academy approached her after...

In the face of sexual harassment accusations by as many as 20 women, Placido Domingo resigned Wednesday as general director of the Los Angeles Opera.

The Los Angeles Police Department announced Saturday it has stopped purchasing online advertising from Google after a recruitment ad appeared on a website that has drawn criticism for its content.

It’s an opening credits sequence that’s instantly recognizable to generations of TV viewers. Blue squares with smiling faces in them, all looking around at those in the squares above or beneath them. And then, the song begins. “Here’s the story of a lovely lady…” We’re talking, of course, about “The Brady Bunch,” the iconic sitcom about the adventures of a...

How do you replace the likes of Rachel Green and Michael Scott? With Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes, Cosmo Kramer and George Costanza, apparently. Netflix announced it has acquired the worldwide streaming rights to all nine season of “Seinfeld.” The show is currently available to stream in the United States on Hulu. “‘Seinfeld’ is the television comedy that all television comedy...

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is collaborating with the facility and animal welfare organizations across the country to relocate 470 exotic animals, including 42 chimpanzees.

A Dallas-born 18-year-old was released from immigration custody Tuesday after wrongfully being detained for more than three weeks.

The Los Alamitos Race Course has canceled races for the third time in the first few days of its three-week Thoroughbred Meet due to fallout from the deaths of 30 horses at Santa Anita during its recently completed meet.

The Los Alamitos Race Course has canceled races for the third time in the first few days of its three-week Thoroughbred Meet due to fallout from the deaths of 30 horses at Santa Anita during its recently completed meet.

Writer Judith Krantz, whose million-selling novels such as “Scruples” and “Princess Daisy” engrossed readers worldwide with their steamy tales of the rich and beautiful, died Saturday at her Bel-Air home. She was 91.

Writer Judith Krantz, whose million-selling novels such as “Scruples” and “Princess Daisy” engrossed readers worldwide with their steamy tales of the rich and beautiful, died Saturday at her Bel-Air home. She was 91.

One day after Gov. Gavin Newsom called for horses to be medically cleared before they are allowed to race, the owners of Santa Anita racetrack said Wednesday a safety review team will evaluate all horses prior to the remaining races at the track.

Rather than catching its breath after opening its extremely popular Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge expansion last month, the Disneyland Resort is forging ahead on building next year’s planned expansion, a land at California Adventure Park themed for the superheroes of Marvel comics and movies, it was reported Wednesday.

A second horse in two days and 29th overall has died at Santa Anita, where management has chosen to continue racing for the rest of the current meet.

A second horse in two days and 29th overall has died at Santa Anita, where management has chosen to continue racing for the rest of the current meet.

Sean Newsom’s senior year of high school started with typical teenage pranks, like sticking a cup to the roof of his car with magnets just to mess with people as he drove around his small town in the Northern California mountains. It ended with him living in an apartment with his older brother and two roommates, working at a tanning...

Sean Newsom’s senior year of high school started with typical teenage pranks, like sticking a cup to the roof of his car with magnets just to mess with people as he drove around his small town in the Northern California mountains. It ended with him living in an apartment with his older brother and two roommates, working at a tanning...