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Image of the los Angeles County General Hospital used in the 1955-56 Know Your City photography series.

Sister Wendy Beckett, the cloistered nun who ventured out of seclusion to become a celebrity art critic and historian, died Wednesday at England’s Carmelite Monastery Quidenham in Norfolk, according to the BBC. She was 88. From the time she appeared in her first art appreciation program on BBC…

It took 55 firefighters an hour and a half to get a blaze under control at an Orange commercial building early Wednesday, Dec. 26. They had to fight the fire, which started shortly before 1:30 a.m., from the outside because the structure of the aluminum-products company was so engulfed that firefighters couldn’t go inside, said…

Here’s why the rent control issue won’t go away in California any year soon. We are talking real money. Southern Californians renters will pay landlords an estimated $47.8 billion in 2018 — up $2.6 billion in a year. A new study by apartment tracker HotPads shows total rents paid in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino…

The questions about Shohei Ohtani had been growing louder for years, ever since he began his climb toward baseball stardom in Japan. While he was a rare two-way phenom across the Pacific, the baseball world wondered if he could really succeed in the major leagues in the United States. Just over a year after Ohtani…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT HOUSTON — U.S. Customs and Border Protection have ordered medical checks on every child in its custody after an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died, marking the second death of an immigrant child in the agency’s care this month. The death came during an ongoing dispute over border security and with a partial…

Natalie Volkoff and her son were driving home from a church youth event when they saw two cars approaching fast in the opposite direction. One of the cars lost control, sending the other spinning over the center divider and into the driver’s side of Volkoff’s gray Honda. After the crash, Volkoff’s…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Associated Press WASHINGTON — A 7-year-old girl who talked to President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve still left out milk and cookies for Santa despite the president telling her it was “marginal” for a child of her age to still believe in the jolly old elf. Then again, Collman Lloyd of…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO | Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis offered a Christmas wish for fraternity among people of different nations, cultures, faiths, races or ideas, describing the world’s differences as a richness, not a danger, and championing the rights of religious minorities. His plea Tuesday for stronger bonds among peoples came as nationalism…