Radiation overdoses found at second hospital

Glendale Adventist says 10 patients received excess doses during CT scans. A second hospital in Los Angeles County has discovered that patients were receiving overdoses of radiation from CT scans used to diagnose strokes.

Saving Century Plaza Hotel takes a whole village

Neighborhood groups, preservationists and a councilman galvanize to negotiate a rescue plan with the hotel's owners, who want to build a retail-condo complex on the site. When the space-age planned community of Century City displaced much of 20th Century Fox's backlot in the 1960s, the centerpiece of the office, retail and residential complex was an elegantly curved luxury hotel designed by a ...

41 arrested in UC Berkeley protest

Fee hike and budget cuts trigger the occupation of Wheeler Hall. A daylong occupation of a classroom building at UC Berkeley on Friday ended with the arrests of 41 students who had barricaded themselves inside to protest budget cuts and steep hikes in student fees, university officials said.

Station fire probe yields little evidence, no suspects

The chief investigator in the fatal blaze says there is not enough evidence to arrest anyone. 'Basically we have nothing at this point,' he says. 'We have run down all our leads.' Nearly three months after the Station fire blazed through the foothills and canyons above Los Angeles, killing two firefighters and scorching 160,577 acres, investigators say they don't have the necessary evidence to ...

New York man arrested in 1982 Koreatown killing

LAPD cold-case detectives use DNA evidence to tie the suspect to the stabbing of a 63-year-old woman, who also was sexually assaulted. More than 27 years after Hazel Hughes was found stabbed to death in her Koreatown apartment, Los Angeles Police Department cold-case detectives have arrested a New York man in the slaying, police said.