Student Shimmi Jotkowitz, right, hugs his teacher Julio Castro outside YULA Boys High School. Students at YULA, a private Jewish school in Pico-Robertson, raised $30,000 to buy a Mazda 3 for Castro, ...

Math teacher Julio Castro thought he was late to the party when he walked in near the end of a faculty-appreciation assembly at YULA Boys High School. He wished he could have dropped his name into the ...

principles of physics, especially gravity. Three Independence High School students experienced that firsthand May 19 as drivers for the International Soap Box Derby Gravity Racing Challenge at Derby ...

Tom, Ray, and a few thousand devoted Car Talk math geeks figure out how to measure a cylindrical gas tank. Also, a Jeep comes out of the shop with more problems than when it went in; how to politely ...