Los Angeles Riots (1992)

Noel Greenwood dies at 75; former L.A. Times senior editor

2013-04-22 00:00:00

Noel Greenwood, a former senior editor at the Los Angeles Times who helped shape local and California coverage as the newspaper outgrew its modest local ambitions and transformed itself into one of national stature, died Sunday at his Santa Barbara home....

Dorner's LAPD is on the way out

2013-02-09 18:51:00

There won't be a happy ending to Christopher Dorner's quest for vengeance against the Los Angeles Police Department. Nothing justifies his murder of innocents or his threats against LAPD personnel and their families. The only positive thing that can...

Anna Deavere Smith wins $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

2013-01-18 08:15:00

Anna Deavere Smith, famed for creating one-woman, documentary theater pieces about taut social issues in which she portrays multiple people she’s interviewed, has won the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the most lucrative awards in...

LAPD's Parker Center is closed for good

2013-01-15 16:14:07

Jenni Rivera's musical family helped popularize Mexican narco-ballads

2012-12-10 13:44:03

Rodney King on cocaine, PCP before drowning, coroner finds

2012-08-23 10:23:48

Rodney King drank, smoked pot before drowning, records show

2012-08-23 11:33:39

Rodney King 'incapacitated' by drugs, alcohol before drowning

2012-08-23 13:52:50

Rodney King death report: Questions remain, relative says

2012-08-23 15:23:00

Coroner: Rodney King in drug, alcohol 'delirium' at time of death

2012-08-23 18:53:45

Chief Beck says illegal immigrants need 'fair' treatment. Agree?

2012-10-24 09:22:53

Rodney King dies at 47; victim of brutal beating became reluctant symbol of race relations

2012-06-17 22:05:00

Rodney King never set out to be a James Meredith or Rosa Parks. He was a drunk, unemployed construction worker on parole when he careened into the city's consciousness in a white Hyundai early one Sunday morning in 1991. While he was enduring the...

CBS Television broadcast on March 15, 1991, shows Rodney King (on ground) being beaten by police officers. King's beating sparked the Los Angeles riots that left more than 50 people dead.

1991-03-03 00:00:00