Larry King

Former talk-show host Larry King is not done talking. King, who retired last year after 25 years at CNN, will be taking the stage in seven communities to talk about his storied career in a one-man show. The 77-year-old will offer theatergoers an inside look at his life and let them ask questions of the Emmy Award winner when "Larry King: Stand Up" kicks off April 14 in Connecticut. The show will then make stops in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, New Jersey and Nevada, ending June 11 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.

The father of a gay Oxnard junior high school student spilled his rage in a Ventura courtroom Monday, telling the convicted killer that he could not forgive him for shooting his son "with the precision of a cold-blooded assassin. " Greg King, reading a biting four-page statement to the court before Brandon McInerney was sentenced to 21 years in state prison, called jurors "incompetent" for failing to reach a verdict in the September murder trial, criticized the media for its coverage of the high-profile case and heaped blame on school officials for failing to watch over his son's well-being.

An intervention couldn't save Michael Jackson, but maybe it's not too late for Larry King. The King of Talk can't stop blathering about the King of Pop. It's been building for three weeks now, getting more and more absurd. Night after night, the CNN host tosses out sentence-fragment questions ("Brain not returned to the family . . . right, Carlos?") that seem like they should have been written for Jimmy Kimmel.

The Oxnard junior high where the shooting took place has returned to its usual rhythms, with teachers struggling to keep antsy seventh- and eighth-graders focused on midterms before the holiday break. The portable computer lab tucked at the back of the schoolyard -- the place where Larry King was gunned down in front of 25 of his classmates -- has reopened. It's been four years since it happened, and the students here have no direct connection to the day E.O. Green Junior High became part of a national story.

The CNN host splits his time between Los Angeles and Washington. Food, Glorious Food: My favorite restaurants are Spago, the Palm, Dining Room at Beverly Wilshire, Mr. Chow and, of course, Nate & Al's, where I eat breakfast every morning. I have a limited diet because I watch my health, so I eat the same thing at each of these spots--chicken, fish, salad. In other words my heart and weight are good. Fit as a Fiddle: Fitness is a part of my week and weekend.

After months of speculation, Piers Morgan, the British newspaper editor best-known to U.S. audiences as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent," has finally completed talks to take over Larry King's weeknight talk show on CNN. CNN, hoping to bolster its flagging prime-time lineup, has settled on Morgan after delicate and wide-ranging negotiations that cleared numerous obstacles, from the host's visa status to his role as a judge on NBC's summer...

King deserved better Re "The last of 'Larry King Live,' " Opinion, Dec. 16 Obviously, Meghan Daum is not, nor has she ever been, a fan of Larry King. And it is also quite possible that she doesn't like hosted talk shows. No problem. But the manner in which Daum infers that King hadn't a clue as to what he was talking about is over the top. King always was prepared, and he had the backup cards and salient material to prove it. As one of television's leading personalities for years, King did not need the few inches that The Times and Daum deigned to give him ?

Talk show host Larry King was released Wednesday from George Washington University Hospital, where he spent eight days recovering from a mild heart attack, Mutual Broadcasting System officials said.

It gets to you after a while, all this wild guessing on TV about President Clinton, Monica Lewinsky and Kenneth Starr, a case of conjecture based on speculation evolving into common wisdom through repeated exposure. But still, I find myself falling into the same trap. "I wonder who Larry King has on CNN tonight," I said to my wife Tuesday morning. "I'm betting Wolf Blitzer," she said. "Fifty-fifty it's Oliver North," I said. "If Larry does have on Oliver North, what do you think he'll say?"

Larry King, the host of CNN's highest-rated telecast, "Larry King Live," has become a major player in this year's presidential race. On Feb. 20, King's show made headlines around the world when Ross Perot announced his candidacy for the presidency. In July, the show was front-page news when Vice President Dan Quayle told King he would support his daughter if she had an abortion. Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton and running mate Al Gore also have found a forum on King's program.

Ventura County prosecutors, trying for a second time to convict a former middle school student of fatally shooting a gay classmate, will drop the key allegation that the crime was motivated by a hatred of homosexuals. The announcement came Tuesday as several jurors from the original trial, which ended last month in a hung jury, expressed strong misgivings about the prosecution's case. They said they didn't believe Brandon McInerney killed Larry King because the boy was gay and urged that he be tried in Juvenile Court instead of as an adult.

In 1994, a young Philadelphia man named Justin Duerr began to notice the series of tile mosaics appliquéd to the pavement all over town. The tiles contained a message that seemed to draw a line from historian Arnold Toynbee to Stanley Kubrick's "2001," while expressing the notion that humans could be resurrected. And something about Jupiter. Duerr began researching and investigating the origins of the strange tiles, meeting other curious folks who wanted to know who or what was behind these odd pieces and whether they were some sort of naive art project, the work of a troubled mind or a genuine message from the cosmos.

Neither family was satisfied when the jury deadlocked last week in the trial of an Oxnard teenager charged with murdering a gay middle-school classmate before stunned students in an English class. The parents of the dead boy, Larry King, stormed out of court when the mistrial was announced. The mother of defendant Brandon McInerney buried her face in her hands, slumped and sobbed. The jury was stuck between murder and manslaughter; torn, like much of a troubled public, between competing scenarios: Was Brandon an angry white supremacist who plotted the killing because he despised Larry for being gay?

Prosecutors vowed to immediately retry a former middle school student who shot a gay classmate, maintaining that the incident was a premeditated murder and a hate crime despite doubts by some jurors who deadlocked in the case. But prosecutors said they are considering whether to again try Brandon McInerney as an adult, a choice that legal experts believe made it harder for them to win a conviction. McInerney, who was 14 at the time of the killing, would face up to life in prison if he were convicted as an adult.

The trial of a middle school student who shot and killed a gay classmate during a morning computer lab ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors said that after 17 hours of deliberations they could not agree whether to convict Brandon McInerney. Jurors deadlocked 7 to 5 in favor of voluntary manslaughter in the emotional two-month trial in which the unstable backgrounds of the two boys and the actions of school officials in the weeks leading up to the stunning 2008 shooting inside an Oxnard classroom were laid bare.

Jurors began deliberating Friday in the murder trial of Brandon McInerney, the 17-year-old accused of shooting a gay classmate to death in 2008. The jury began weighing eight weeks of testimony in a trial that included nearly 100 witnesses. Many of those testifying were students and teachers at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard who saw tensions on campus rising after 15-year-old Larry King began coming to school dressed in makeup and girl's boots. McInerney, then 14, shot King twice in the back of the head in a school computer lab on Feb. 12, 2008.

When he was just 14, Brandon McInerney walked into an Oxnard classroom, took his seat, pulled a .22-caliber handgun out of his backpack and shot the student sitting in front of him. Then he tossed the weapon to the floor and walked out. The victim, Lawrence King, was an openly gay student who McInerney reportedly thought had a crush on him. This week McInerney, looking more like an adult at the age of 17, will be tried in a high-profile murder...

It's natural to feel sympathy for youthful murder defendant Brandon McInerney, who grew up in a home so violent and dysfunctional that he wasn't even allowed to cry after his father punched him in the face. But the law does not allow for sympathy, prosecutor Maeve Fox told jurors Thursday during closing arguments in the teenager's much-watched trial. Emotionally, the case is a "tragedy on all levels," Fox told the packed Chatsworth courtroom, but factually McInerney's fatal shooting of a gay classmate in a junior high school computer lab is first-degree murder.

Court closed dramatically in the Brandon McInerney homicide trial Thursday after the youth's defense attorneys sought to have Ventura County Superior Court Judge Charles Campbell thrown off the case for alleged pro-prosecution bias. The motion was filed as the lengthy trial lumbers toward an end. Campbell halted the proceedings in a Chatsworth courtroom until Friday so defense attorneys Robyn Bramson and Scott Wippert can recover from illnesses. Under California law, judges must submit written answers to such motions within 10 days.