The shuttle Endeavour has maintained a heading through the streets of Los Angeles toward its retirement home at a museum.

Until this season, the Los Angeles Kings ice hockey team were really only known for one saga: the infamous big-money acquisition of Wayne Gretzky, a move that shocked the sport and tore the heart out of a city and a country in the late 1980s.

WAYNE GRETZKY, I’m sure, could well swing a hurley if you pressed one into his hand. But I don’t know if ice hockey’s Ringy has any interest in Gaelic Games.

An earthquake, felt by many people, rocked the Los Angeles region today.

POLICE hope a $500,000 (€350,000) reward will help them catch a serial killer who has claimed the lives of at least 10 women and a man in a two-part string of violence spanning more than two decades.

Madonna has kicked off her world tour with a controversial stunt that saw her hanging from a giant cross wearing a crown of thorns.

Supermodel Tyra Banks was left in tears while filming a preview for her upcoming US TV chat show when producers asked her to revisit the Inglewood, California home where she grew up.

A Los Angeles neighbourhood expressed anger and shock after a 13-year-old suspected car thief was shot dead by police following a three-and-a-half-mile chase which ended when he reversed into their patrol car.

Friends and relatives of troubled pop star Michael Jackson descended on his Neverland Ranch in a show of support for the entertainer who is facing child sex abuse charges.

Prosecutors are to seek a retrial of a former Los Angeles police officer who was videotaped punching and slamming a handcuffed black teenager on to a squad car.

PROSECUTORS in Los Angeles were yesterday deciding whether to seek a retrial, after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of apoliceman who was caught on video assaulting a handcuffed black teenager.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles were today deciding whether to seek a retrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of a policeman who was caught on video assaulting a handcuffed black teenager.

A WHITE police officer videotaped punching a black teenager during an arrest in Los Angeles has been charged with assault.

A white police officer videotaped punching a black teenager during an arrest in Los Angeles has been charged with assault.

OKLAHOMA City police have defended the actions of two white officers caught on video hitting a black suspect more than 25 times with their nightsticks.

Oklahoma City police have defended the actions of two white officers caught on video hitting a black suspect more than 25 times with their nightsticks.

A LOS ANGELES police officer has been suspended from duty after he was caught on video smashing the head of a handcuffed black teenager into the back of a car and punching him in the face during an arrest.