Marisa Gerber

Joseph Arriaga, 28, left, reunites with his biological father Robert' Bobby' Parker, 52, visiting from Florida, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 in Riverside, California.

After getting his DNA results, he messaged a stranger: I think you might be my father

August 3, 2021 at 9:31 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — One evening last fall, after his three young children went to bed, Joseph Arriaga sat at his laptop and sent a Facebook message to a stranger. "Hello...

MASSACHUSETTS | Thirty-five percent of Massachusetts' just over 5.3 million adults are at high risk.

As COVID-19 fills ICUs, chronically ill patients suffer ‘ripple effect’ of delayed surgeries

February 9, 2021 at 4:53 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — In the early years of his illness, as his kidneys began to shrink and toxins coursed through his blood, the same four words often floated through Miguel...

SAFETY PINS | Safety pins in a variety of sizes are also a first-aid kit staple as they can help secure wraps and bandages.

A support group for women on the front lines of the caregiving crisis

December 1, 2020 at 8:28 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — Her hands pulsed with pain as she tried, once more, to tug a pair of super-tight socks over her husband's toes and up his swollen legs. The compression...

Matthew Efird checks samples of sun-dried raisins for water content at Double E farms south of Fresno in 2016.

About 6 months in, will the COVID-19 pandemic change Americans’ views of the social safety net?

August 14, 2020 at 1:18 p.m.

If you had posed the scenario to him as a hypothetical a few months ago — "Your company will be hemorrhaging cash, and you'll turn to Uncle Sam for emergency...

Un año después del huracán, Yamary Morales Torres estaba reconstruyendo la casa de su madre en el litoral de Yabucoa. La casa contigua, en el primer plano y que pertenecía a su hermano, quedó sólo con tres paredes de pie. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

El escándalo de Puerto Rico despierta la ira del pueblo

July 30, 2019 at 6:36 p.m.

Heydee Pérez, de 29 años, y su hijo Yeriel Calera, de 4, esperaban ayuda una semana después del paso del huracán María. El techo de su casa desapareció y no...

Brenda del Río González, de 51 años, lidera Transgéneros Unidas, un grupo de apoyo que se reúne los jueves en Long Beach, California, para compartir consejos y apoyo mutuo.

Transgéneros Unidas, refugio y compañerismo para latinas

May 8, 2019 at 4:57 p.m.

Brenda del Río González se escabulló en el salón, haciendo su sonido característico, el clic-clic de sus tacones de aguja en el azulejo. Se paró en silencio al lado la...

Aug. 18, 2017: Scott Dekraai was spared from facing the death penalty due to the handling of jailhouse informants by the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

Man who killed 8 people at California nail salon gets life in prison

August 22, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

A former tugboat captain who carried out Orange County's worst mass shooting was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison Friday for killing eight people at a...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Recordings suggest ‘Suge’ Knight discussed bribing witnesses in murder case, D.A. says

December 17, 2018 at 10:53 p.m.

Transcripts of recorded conversations suggest former rap impresario Marion "Suge" Knight and his defense attorney discussed bribing witnesses to fabricate testimony in Knight's upcoming murder trial, according to court records...

Robert Durst in court in Los Angeles County.

Witness says Robert Durst confessed to killing woman: ‘It was her or me’

August 22, 2019 at 3:14 a.m.

New York real estate scion Robert Durst admitted during a dinner conversation in 2014 to killing writer Susan Berman, according to the testimony of a man who says he was...

Two prosecution witnesses had been expected to testify Tuesday in the murder case of New York real estate scion Robert Durst, right, pictured at a previous hearing.

Secret witness to testify for the prosecution in Robert Durst murder case

August 22, 2019 at 3:10 a.m.

Two men — one of whom is a secret witness yet to be publicly identified — are expected to testify Tuesday morning at a hearing in the murder case of...

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