Friends and residents are mourning a well-liked janitor who was fatally stabbed, allegedly by a 17-year-old trying to take his keys to the building.

He said a security guard for the park called about the young men ... which oversees the La Brea Tar Pits, said in a statement to The Times that several high school students who were on a ...

We walked through the open gates of the La Brea Tar Pits and found ourselves inside the 23-acre park and museum. The first thing we came across was a heavily fenced-in tar pit with life size mammoths.

Did you know that people can discover fossils in a major city? Head to the La Brea Tar Pits to see an active dig site in the heart of Los Angeles. The tar pits were formed thousands of years ago ...