ACAPULCO, Mexico -- It is a sultry morning in this crime-ridden resort, and little movement occurs at the main police headquarters. Francisco Robles, a freelance news photographer, glances down at an incoming text message on his phone.

"Four dead...

BEIJING -- Exports of elegant Swiss watches to China have plunged. Sales of Mercedes-Benz and other premium sedans are slowing. And high-end restaurants, coming off their worst Chinese New Year festival in years, are starting to change their menus...

LOS ANGELES -- The courtship that has riveted the neuroscience world blossomed at a Saturday night dinner in a tony Brentwood, Calif., restaurant.

USC provost Elizabeth Garrett and executive vice provost Michael Quick kept the conversation light....

LOS ANGELES -- Wendy Greuel called Eric Garcetti early Wednesday morning to concede the mayoral election, a Greuel campaign source told the Los Angeles Times, ending a two-year campaign to determine Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's successor and the ...

WASHINGTON -- For years, physicians have been inching their way to a better understanding of how -- and how well -- the drug ketamine, a "twilight drug" used to sedate some patients before a painful procedure, can lift someone with severe ...

SALTILLO, Mexico -- Quitze Fernandez, a columnist for the El Guardian newspaper in this capital of Coahuila state abutting Texas, picked up the phone in his newsroom one day.

"Either you come or we are coming for you," he heard.

Within minutes, ...