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By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times
The highest tides of the season will arrive in California this week in tandem with forecast rain, a powerful combination that could lead...
By Thomas H. Maugh II and Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
Evidence linking the anthrax that killed five people in 2001 to a flask of spores in the laboratory of federal microbiologist Bruce E. Ivins...
By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
It's hard to imagine some of Vincent van Gogh's signature works without the vibrant strokes of yellow that brightened the sky in "Starry...
By Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times
A track hoe sidled up to the modest yellow brick church, paused for a moment to position itself, then drove its teeth into the roof with...
By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
Actor Stephen Baldwin is locked in a legal battle with fellow actor and director Kevin Costner over a plan to market an oil-spill fighting...
By Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times
They called it a "he" and decided that for today he would be some sort of diving bird — a loon, perhaps, or a grebe.
By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
Federal supervisors would have to run the country's national forests to maintain ecological health and species diversity under a proposed...
By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday criticized a bill drafted by Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce...
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
Prenatal surgery for the most severe form of the birth defect spina bifida doubled the number of children who were able to walk unassisted...
By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times
Some women with early-stage breast cancer may be cured without the need to remove multiple lymph nodes, which has been the standard...
By Andrew Zajac, Washington Bureau
Responding to the needs of badly wounded war veterans, federal officials said Tuesday they were accelerating reviews of a science-fiction-...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
Scientists have confirmed an axiom of teenage life: Kids intent on climbing the social ladder at school are more likely to pick on their...
By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times
Describing seaside fireworks displays as wholesome and patriotic, an Orange County legislator wants to prevent the California Coastal...
By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times
Just two days after the start of the winter strength-and-conditioning program, Jim Poggi, a University of Iowa freshman football player,...
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
Humans like to think of themselves as residing at the top of the evolutionary chain, but the tiny water flea beats them out by at least...