Robert Maxwell

Ted Solotaroff, a writer, critic and editor who founded New American Review, an influential literary journal in the 1960s and '70s, and who helped shape the works of prominent writers while at Harper & Row publishers, died Aug. 8 at his home in East...

About 450 state and local police officers swept through Compton, Lynwood and other parts of Los Angeles County early Tuesday, arresting 16 people and serving more than a dozen search warrants in an operation aimed at dismantling a violent clique of the...

The swankiest digs this side of the Gold Coast, Sutton Place is one of the East Side's most coveted addresses. But as recently as the 20th century, this neighborhood wasn't all nannies and co-ops. Back in 1875, entrepreneur Effingham B. Sutton built...

Los Angeles interior designer A.J. Bernard knows what makes Hollywood's house-proud tick. "People don't just want future heirlooms," he notes. "They also want current status symbols." In 2005, the must-haves arrive from around the world. On the if-you-...

The following is a list of confirmed dead as of Monday. List compiled from sources including Pentagon websites, New York Coroner's Office, and Times wire services, by Times researchers Cary Schneider and Kent Coloma and Times staff writer Myrna Oliver....

Here is a list of those identified in the past two days as killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to family members, friends, co-workers and law enforcement. United Airlines Flight 175, Boston to Los Angeles, crashed into World Trade Center...

His rented Impala paws the asphalt as the legendary investigative reporter takes a slow left off 47th Street and heads into the sunlight of Indiana Avenue. Seymour Hersh has come home again, to the rough-cut precincts where he spent a good chunk of the...

Lawyers and musical comedy might not seem to have much in common, but the University of Maryland School of Law is linking the two in a program that uses the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray as a springboard to examine race relations in 1960s...

Andrew Davies agreed to critique half a dozen of the works he had adapted for screen: Vanity Fair (A&E, 1998) "This one's my favorite, because it was directed with such extraordinary originality by Mark Munden. He was so inventive, strange and...

Friday December 19, 1997      There's no advertising tag line on "Tomorrow Never Dies," the new James Bond film, but an accurate one might be "Never wake a sleepwalker. Especially one that's turning a nice profit."      As the latest film in a series...

CORDOVA, Alaska -- A year after the Exxon Valdez ground onto a reef in the middle of a frigid March night in 1989, unleashing the worst environmental disaster in U.S history, a striking thing happened. Amid oil-blinded sea otters and beached whales and...