Visa delays are leaving popular tourist spots like Yosemite without the foreign laborers who take on the dirtiest jobs. >>

Everywhere consumers go, there's a TV screen playing commercials. In a fast-forward era, ad firms seek new outlets. >>

Kellie Lim, a triple amputee at 8, is now ready to graduate from medical school. >>

A state Senate panel has accused it of ethical lapses, mismanagement. Racing board says its angering of a campaign donor is behind probe. >>

Bratton's report this week on the May Day melee won't name names but will be a frank assessment of what went wrong. >>

Under a canopy of jacaranda-tinged spring bloom, hundreds of graduating Occidental College students lined up in the center of the Eagle Rock campus. When the call came, they marched slowly up the hill to an outdoor amphitheater scented with eucalyptus and filled with cheering friends and relatives. >>

Ralph Lazo's decision to voluntarily join his Japanese American classmates in the internment camp still resonates 65 years later. >>

Cal State Northridge hosts the finals of a riveting national college competition. >>

Lovers of L.A.'s fading cafeteria culture convene at the famous downtown eatery for a trip down memory lane and through the line. >>

The 5:30 a.m. wreck in Beverly Hills leaves the actress slightly hurt. Police say a substance believed to be cocaine was found. >>

Rick Call of Marina del Rey chanced upon a newspaper ad promoting "a rare opportunity to be in the powerful presence of a swami (one who is considered to be liberated from material desires)." >>

MARIPOSA, CALIF. — It could cost as much as $378 million to rebuild a key route to Yosemite National Park that was buried by a massive rock slide last year, according to the California Department of Transportation. >>

At an armory in Van Nuys, groups fill, package, label and ship necessities and treats to troops. >>

A girl was killed Saturday after being ejected from a sport utility vehicle in which she and five other teenagers were riding as it crashed into a concrete light pole in Anaheim, a police spokesman said. Her name and age were not immediately released. >>

Monday is Memorial Day. The following schedule will be in effect in observance of the holiday: >>

Scientists injected a stranded mother whale and her calf with antibiotics Saturday to ward off infection in wounds that have worsened from exposure to the fresh water of the Sacramento River. >>

A worker was killed Saturday by a falling beam while cleaning up at a construction site, police said. Lt. William Eriksen said the man was picking up debris inside an office building that was being gutted in the 9100 block of Westminster Boulevard. >>

An 81-year-old woman was struck by two vehicles and killed Friday while crossing a busy street. The Orange County coroner's office said Joan Van Amersfoorth died at the scene. >>

A pilot who was killed Friday when the experimental plane he was flying crashed in the frontyard of a house has been identified as a resident of China. The San Bernardino County coroner's website said he was Hyung Jun Lee, 57. >>

Officials reopened Venice and Dockweiler beaches Saturday, after a 5,000-gallon sewage spill into Ballona Creek earlier in the week made swimming unsafe. >>

A Harbor City man refueling an airport SuperShuttle van with natural gas was killed Saturday when the fuel tank on the vehicle exploded, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said. >>