SYLMAR – The world’s largest manufacturer of lithium ion batteries is pushing the green-tech revolution forward with an $85 million expansion slated to bring hundreds of jobs to Sylmar.

As the City Council delayed a decision on making layoffs and eliminating city departments to balance the deficit, some council members began talking Wednesday about proposing new taxes to help ease the city’s budget woes.

SYLMAR – The world’s largest manufacturer of lithium ion batteries is pushing the green-tech revolution forward with an $85 million expansion slated to bring hundreds of jobs to Sylmar.

SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan – The deaths of three American special operations soldiers in a roadside bombing in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday drew unwanted attention to a U.

NEW YORK – Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them – findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for such people.

Police are investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who choked on a hot dog during an eating contest at the Boys & Girls Club of San Pedro.

As California reduces its prison population, Los Angeles County officials said Wednesday they are considering legal action in light of revelations the state is dropping off mentally ill offenders from state prisons and hospitals at county hospital emergency rooms.

Despite warnings from the nation’s top intelligence officials that a domestic terrorist attack is likely within the next six months, Los Angeles faces no greater threat than it has since the Sept.

Throwing its support behind a decades-long effort to phase out the noisiest models of corporate jets at Van Nuys Airport, a city panel recommended adopting a law to ban Stage 2 aircraft.

In the three weeks since a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti, the American public has donated more than $644 million for relief efforts – yet already there’s concern that the generosity will fade even as dire needs persist.