Good teachers are the key to accelerating academic achievement by Hispanic and black students to levels on par with their white and Asian counterparts, but poor, minority children are consistently stuck with the worst instructors, according to a study relea... | An ordinance that would require porn actors to wear condoms during film shoots was tentatively approved by the City Council on Tuesday. | Police are searching for three robbers who mugged a 60-year-old man and fatally shot his grandson in Sun Valley Monday night. | In the wee small hours of Tuesday morning, a fire erupted at a construction site on the grounds of the nation's second-largest Mormon temple. | L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy painted a stark budget picture at today's first board meeting of the year — a $543 million budget shortfall for the next academic year, plus the possibility that thousands of employees could face layoffs, whole school ... | The Los Angeles Unified school board wants to stem the decade-long decline in enrollment that has cost the district hundreds of millions over dollars in per pupil funding. | Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca wants to hire more staff members who are trained to deal with the mentally ill in county jails. | Former Office of Management and Budget director Roy Ash has died at his Los Angeles home at 93. |