Santa Monica

Segal died from the complications of a stroke at a Santa Monica hospital, his publicist said Friday.

At a time when staying home has been so essential to protecting our health and communities, an alarming number of families are in danger of eviction, write Bobby Turner and Chris Paul.

In the wealthy city of Santa Monica, California, the historically Black Pico district retains its memories of the generations of families who called it home — and the legacy of racial segregation that created it. But today, soaring real estate prices are making the price of leaving hard to pass up, and longtime residents like Michele Duncan are saying good-bye.

A mother to a newborn finally got to meet her one-month-old after beating coronavirus.

A protest in Santa Monica was mostly peaceful until some began looting stores around the 3rd Street Promenade.

Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the novel coronavirus home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He’d stop at a hotel after work just to take a shower. He’d wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant. They did a tremendous amount of handwashing.

The city of Santa Monica and its residents responded Monday with surprise and outrage to reports of a pornographic video recorded at a public library. The video was shot at Ocean Park Library, reportedly during business hours, and uploaded to an adult film website. It’s unclear when the video was made.  “That is wrong, it is completely wrong,” resident...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson didn’t make a household name for himself by conforming to someone else’s idea of who he should be, an approach he encouraged others to take while accepting a top honor at the MTV Movie & TV Awards. The actor, producer and former professional wrestler said embracing himself allowed him to carve his own space in the...

Andrew Hardy was crossing the street on an electric scooter in downtown Los Angeles when a car struck him at 50 miles per hour and flung him 15 feet in the air before he smacked his head on the pavement and fell unconscious. The 26-year-old snapped two bones in each leg, broke a thighbone, shattered a kneecap, punctured a lung...

Some of Lionsgate’s most popular film franchises from “Hunger Games” to “Twilight” will be brought to life when the studio opens what it calls the world’s first vertical theme park in China this summer.

Payless taught fashion influencers a lesson about shoes by opening a fake store that sold Main Street kicks at Madison Avenue prices. Payless ShoeSource held a fake launch party in Santa Monica, California, for the bogus label “Palessi” and invited fashionistas to sample the seemingly expensive merchandise. The VIP shoppers paid as much as $645 for shoes that sell from...

“Black Panther” will get its first shot at some awards show love as the top nominee at next month’s MTV Movie & TV Awards .

A monster wave off Portugal has produced a world record for a Brazilian surfer. The World Surf League says Rodrigo Koxa has ridden the biggest wave ever surfed. At the group’s Big Wave Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Saturday, it said its judges determined that a wave Koxa surfed at Naraze, Portugal, on Nov. 8 was 80 feet (24.38...

Santa Monica Firefighters saved a pup from a fire after the dog was pulled from the flames not breathing and without a pulse. Firefighters performed CPR and worked on the pup for 20 minutes with a pet oxygen mask until the animal came back to life.

Bill Cosby’s lawyers accuse prosecutors of trying to use the “tainted, unreliable memories of women, now in their senior years” to build their sexual assault case against him and will seek competency hearings on any accusers allowed to testify. On the eve of a key pretrial hearing Tuesday, they said the women’s memories have been marred by time, media coverage...

Stephen Bannon’s appointment as chief executive of Donald Trump’s campaign has drawn scrutiny to his personal history, including a 1996 arrest in a domestic-violence case that was ultimately dismissed, NBC News reported. Court records show that Bannon was charged with three misdemeanors in Santa Monica, California, on Feb. 22, 1996, after his then-wife claimed he attacked her. A police report...

Film and TV studio Lions Gate is buying cable channel operator Starz in a deal worth $4.4 billion.

Grocery chain Whole Foods is cutting about 1,500 jobs over the next eight weeks as it looks to lower prices and keep up with competition.

A $100,000 reward was being offered for the safe return of a UC Berkeley student who went missing after leaving a party near the University of Southern California campus early Saturday morning, family members said.