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In a country where tens of thousands have gone missing, most presumed killed by gangs, sometimes in cahoots with police, the recent disappearance of three men barely qualified as news except for one fact: they are citizens not of Mexico but of Italy.

Music, acting, sports. A number of entertainment industries feed Hollywood’s celebrity machine, and those salaries and royalties keep the Southern California real estate market hopping.

There wasn’t any surprise this time.

Ester Ledecka completed one of the most unlikely feats in Olympic history by pumping her right fist in the air after she sped across the finish line for the snowboard parallel giant slalom at the Phoenix Snow Park. She hugged second-place Selina Joerg of Germany,...

The night that Lonzo Ball returned to the Lakers lineup, Julius Randle stole the show.

Often vocal about his belief that college basketball players should be paid, Kyle Kuzma took a step back on Friday and let Lakers teammate Lonzo Ball make the point for him.

The bloody patch on Max Parrot’s chin pretty much said it all.

On a day when some of the world’s best snowboarders pushed each other to go for broke, the inaugural men’s big air contest at the 2018 Winter Olympics turned into a game of survival.

One after another, pre-contest favorites — including...

With just over 35 seconds left in Friday night’s Southern Section Division 2AA semifinal playoff game, 6-foot-10 Shareef O’Neal, the son of Shaquille, delivered a breakaway dunk that had Crossroads fans leaping to their feet and squealing with delight.

In the absence of a competitor taking a club to a knee or vandalizing a gas station bathroom, the scene Friday night at the Gangneung Oval marked the height of absurdity at these Olympics.

A 41-year-old La Habra woman and her two juvenile sons could face criminal charges after allegedly attacking a boy in a revenge hit-and-run, authorities said Friday.

After traveling 123 miles to Lancaster on Tuesday for the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division 4 playoffs, the Laguna Beach High girls’ soccer team knew that it had another long trip for the quarterfinals.

Keita Bates-Diop finished with 24 points and 14 rebounds and C.J. Jackson made a long threee-pointer with 1.7 seconds left in double overtime to give No. 16 Ohio State an 80-78 victory at Indiana on Friday night.

Super-sub Lou Williams had 35 points in 33 minutes — including a 23-point second quarter, the Clippers scored the first 19 of the game and handed the staggering Phoenix Suns their eighth loss in a row, 128-117 on Friday night.

The result was so unfathomable, so absurd, forward Marcel Goc was sure he was dreaming when the final buzzer sounded on Germany’s 4-3 upset of defending champion Canada in their Olympic hockey semifinal Friday night. Many of his teammates cried. Others hugged. Goc struggled to grasp what had just...

James Harden scored 31 points and the Houston Rockets won their 11th consecutive game with a 120-102 victory Friday night over the Minnesota Timberwolves, who lost All-Star Jimmy Butler to an apparent right knee injury.

Some big bucks for an important Los Angeles museum and a look at where L.A.’s appetite for road-building stands. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture and sexy vegetable news:

Danilo Gallinari sat in his chair inside the Clippers’ locker room Friday night with his bruised right hand soaking in a bucket of ice water, his frustration visible because he was unable to play against the Phoenix Suns.