Thomas Curwen

Zimbardo's "Prison Experiment," a landmark and controversial study, was shut down after six days, but its implications have had a profound effect.

Everett Titterington, who died at Pearl Harbor, was interred at Riverside National Cemetery after his remains were identified.

Los Angeles is well-versed in deception. Bring water to the desert, and everything will turn green.

Screens throughout the airport will soon invite people to read a banned book by using a QR code to get a temporary library card.

David Lin, 68, had been sentenced to life in prison for contract fraud related to his efforts raising money to build a church in China. Both Lin’s family and the State Department denied the charge.

Senate Bill 1297, passed with bipartisan support and now waiting for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature, will allow the city of Malibu to install five camera systems to monitor the speed of drivers on a dangerous stretch of Pacific Coast Highway

Some urbanists believe this type of development is unavoidable if Los Angeles is to create more housing in a region where buildable land is scarce and expensive.

Like a meadow in a dark forest, the Christian Science church is a bulwark in a neighborhood where crime and homelessness, addiction and despair are often on display.

Once an immigrant hub, this vibrant downtown district is a tourist destination where a 121-year-old mochi shop co-exists with sneaker shops.

A little before 8 one summer morning, the canyons of downtown Los Angeles still hold the cool of night. Santiago Lopez walks down 6th Street into the deep and familiar shade of a high-rise lofting above him between Hope and Grand. If any homeless resident bedded down beneath the building’s generous overhang, security has cleared them out. Lopez unlocks the door to Cleaners Depot. He’s pushing 10 years at a dry cleaner that’s just like any other dry cleaner in any other town, except this is downt…