Los Angeles (CNN) — Justin Bieber and other celebrities gather Thursday in Hollywood as Michael Jackson’s three children use their father’s shoes and a sequined glove to make handprint and footprint impressions in the concrete in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. It’s part of the promotion for Cirque du Soleil’s “Michael Jackson The Immortal World [...]

By Bill DwyreJanuary 25, 2012, 11:22 p.m. Lakers-Clippers rivalry? Are you kidding? This is now officially a street fight. It used to be all that mattered when the Clippers played the Lakers was whether Jack Nicholson bothered to show. No more. This one clearly mattered. By the final period, there threatened to be more technical [...]

By By Ben Bolch, Los Angeles TimesJanuary 26, 2012, 8:19 a.m. Metta World Peace had always lingered to chat with reporters after games this season, even on the many occasions when he had not provided much to talk about. Whether he had scored two points in 13 minutes or had tallied five points in 20 [...]

(CNN) — When he co-founded Harborside Health Center, the world’s largest medicinal-cannabis dispensary, located in Oakland, California, five years ago, Steve DeAngelo’s goal was to provide a safe, comfortable, organized alternative to what he saw as a broken system in the state, professional thugs on one side, irresponsible stoners on the other. “Both options were [...]

Sadly, the grim reports that dominated the college football news cycle beginning Saturday evening were a precursor to the inevitable but still numbing reality: a coaching legend has passed. A family spokesperson confirmed to the Associated Press that Joseph Vincent Paterno has died at a State College hospital at the age of 85, just over two months after being diagnosed with [...]