Fed up with a trash islands,a LA County leaders consider ban on some food containers

A study to examine a wide-ranging ban on the use of take-out containers, plastic cups and single-use straws was approved unanimously by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, but not before several people spoke out in opposition to the idea.

Clark puts OJ trial in the past, lauds now

Marcia Clark, in an April 2011 file image, is the onetime O.J. Simpson prosecutor, and now-bestselling novelist, who has become a role model for career women. Two decades before presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton became the target of nonstop, unsolicited advice on how to win the White House - smile more, change that hairstyle, lose the pantsuit - the media were focused on Marcia Clark and all her missteps toward winning the trial of the century.