A federal appeals court last week extended a halt on same-sex marriages in California for the duration of Proposition 8's appeals process, which will begin in December and could lead to a battle before the Supreme Court. Read more...

A federal judge issued a ruling repealing California's Proposition 8 on Wednesday on grounds that it was unconstitutional, setting the stage for future legal battles questioning the initiative's constitutionality. In the case Perry v. Read more...

After riots damaged areas of South Los Angeles in 1992, Linda Griego was there to help rebuild. In more recent years, the 1975 UCLA alumna watched with alarm as unemployment rates rose along with the number of uninsured among the working poor. Read more...

A female student was sexually assaulted at 2:50 a.m. on July 10 at a party at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house on 613 Gayley Avenue. Read more...

More than 1,700 voters cast ballots at the polls and by mail to elect the first-ever Westwood Neighborhood Council on June 26 in what a city clerk report said was the greatest turnout for a Los Angeles neighborhood election this year. Read more...

Teshome H. Gabriel, a longtime professor of cinema and media studies in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, died of sudden cardiac arrest on June 15. He was 70. Read more...