Then a fireball erupted on a hillside off Las Virgenes Road. I had no way of knowing the helicopter that had plunged into the Santa Monica Mountains hillside was carrying basketball legend Kobe Bryant, as well as his young daughter Gianna, and this crash would send fans around the nation into mourning. The Times is offering coverage of Kobe ...

They are the remaining parts of the rapidly gentrifying Black and Latino areas of Baldwin Hills and Boyle Heights; the White neighborhoods of Hancock Park and Santa Monica; the burgeoning neighborhoods of K-Town and Chinatown. We all exist in our separate silos, except for one unifying love of our Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe was the thread that ...

Tony Imbrenda. "The wreckage is still pretty hot up there," Imbrenda. "We still have some fire activity on the hill." The crash took place in Calabasas, a city of about 25,000 people in the Santa Monica Mountains about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Art Marrujo, a dispatch supervisor with the Los Angeles County Fire Department ...

Grabbing us by the hair and pleading: “Remember this man! Take this moment to appreciate him! He won’t be here much longer.” Bryant’s helicopter crashed into a hillside in the Santa Monica Mountains on Sunday morning, killing all nine people aboard, including his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. The sudden manner in which Bryant died makes ...

At 8:24 p.m., City Hall was illuminated in purple and gold light in honor of Bryant. The Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier also lit up with Lakers colors. “We mourn the tragic and untimely death of a California icon and basketball legend, Kobe Bryant,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said.”In his 20- year career with the Los Angeles ...

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of fans flocked to the Staples Center on Sunday after the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, seeking comfort and solace at the place where his outsize talent was on display for so many years,

Mourners could not get near their hero one last time. The crash site was high above the intersection embedded in a hill that abuts the Santa Monica Mountains. Hundreds of people streamed up and down Las Virgenes for hours on Sunday afternoon. Most appeared to be in shock. They wore Bryant’s No. 8 jersey and his No. 24 jersey. They draped ...

For U.S. corporate pension funds, 2019 was a "horse race between asset and liability growth," said Steven J. Foresti, chief investment officer at Santa Monica, Calif.-based investment consultant Wilshire Consulting. U.S. plans posted average investment returns of 16.8% for the year, as stocks and bonds alike delivered gains of roughly 20% ...

The world is still reeling in shock following the tragic news of retired NBA star Kobe Bryant’s death on Sunday. The basketball legend and his 13-year-old daughter, Giana Bryant along with with seven people died after a helicopter he was flying in crashed in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The Forum in Inglewood, where the Lakers used to play, was lit in purple. The Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier and L.A. City Hall were also lit in purple and gold. Bryant died Sunday in a helicopter crash that killed eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna. He was 41 years old.