This photo by staff photographer John Malmin appeared in the Jan. 30, 1958, Los Angeles Times. The image won best metropolitan spot news photo of the year in the California-Nevada Associated Press ...

Clifford Rue was a man ahead of his time and behind on payments to his bookie. A former Marine who changed his name from Rubenstein for business purposes, Rue had been working at his father’s liquor ...

On April 18, 1958, 62 years ago this past Saturday, major league baseball changed forever. It was on that date that the Los Angeles Dodgers made their debut in their new home city, 2,796 miles from ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Coming off a 3-1 win over the Giants, the Dodgers are celebrating something else Monday: the anniversary of their first home game in Los Angeles. The Dodgers, formerly of ...

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Rainfall totals Monday set a record for the date in downtown Los Angeles. The previous record for April 6 was 0.84 inches, which was set in 1958, the National Weather Service said. By noon Monday, ...

At the start of 1955, the Dodgers were based in Brooklyn, and Jaime Jarrín was a reporter in his native Ecuador, covering the National Congress. Four years later, the Dodgers had moved to Los Angeles, ...

WEST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A stunning classic Corvette was stolen after it was left unlocked in a West Los Angeles parking garage, police say. The 1958 Corvette with a silver-blue tone had Rhode ...