As his team glided around him Monday morning, a day before its 5-3 thumping of the Philadelphia Flyers on New Year’s Eve at Staples Center, Kings coach Todd McLellan reached into his pocket and found a forgotten piece of paper. It was an old lineup card, from the Kings’ last full-fledged practice. Amid a December […]
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we predict the top stories of 2020 and look back at trainer Gary Sherlock. We don’t often have a Wednesday newsletter but Santa Anita has a special New Year’s Day card that brings us back. Since today is the first […]
SACRAMENTO — California regulators said Tuesday that they have streamlined the state’s permit process to speed up the approval of tree-thinning projects designed to slow massive wildfires that have devastated communities in recent years. The state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection approved a vegetation management program based on more than a decade of analysis of […]
The days may be numbered for an Irvine family member’s former Newport Beach estate known as the “Big Blue House,” with a replacement nearly five times its size potentially on the way. City permits have been issued to demolish the gated 1930s-era house at 401 Avocado Ave., which was the home of Kathryn Irvine Wheeler […]
Violent crime in Los Angeles declined for the second consecutive year in 2019, which was the 10th consecutive year the city saw fewer than 300 homicides. Gang-related homicides and crime related to homelessness remain persistent trouble spots, officials said. But the overall crime picture continued several positive trends from the previous year, and officials said […]
Thanks to December storms, much of Southern California will ring in the new year with above-normal precipitation. Meanwhile, the northern part of the state remains mostly below normal after the first six months of the rainfall season, according to Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services. Northern California’s rainy season got off to a late […]
Ajai Singh Mehta, known as Sonny, had an insatiable appetite for books. He poured that passion into the publishing world, where he served as president and editor in chief of Knopf for 32 years and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for a decade. Under his leadership, Knopf published some of the world’s greatest […]
Author A.H. Tammsaare is hardly a household name in North America, but in Estonia he’s one of the nation’s most prominent literary figures. If American high school students are reading John Steinbeck’s ”The Grapes of Wrath” or “Romeo and Juliet,” then Estonian teenagers are dreading the text of Tammsaare’s challenging “Truth and Justice, Part One.” […]
With movie ticket sales down approximately 4% from 2018, and the onslaught of Peak TV and the Netflixification of film viewing compounding the endangered species status of locally owned independent cinemas, it’s not often that you see a shuttered movie house reopen — much less in a week’s time. But that’s what happened at the […]
The final “Sunday Night Football” game of the season drew the fourth-largest audience of the 14-week-old 2019-20 prime-time television season. The San Francisco 49ers’ 26-21 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, which was not decided until Seattle tight end Jacob Hollister was tackled on the San Francisco 1-yard line with nine seconds to play, averaged 22.846 […]