An El Dorado County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed early Wednesday and another deputy was wounded during a shootout near a private marijuana grow in a rural area just south of Placerville, Calif., authorities said. Deputy Brian Ishmael was responding to a report of theft from a marijuana garden at a private residence in […]
A Laguna Beach man who police say beat a cat to death against the hood of a patrol vehicle was arrested early Sunday and later charged with animal cruelty, according to authorities. After receiving reports of a man standing and screaming in the middle of the road, a Laguna Beach police officer arriving in the […]
Los Angeles police are searching for a gunman in an officer-involved shooting that occurred late Tuesday night in Boyle Heights. The area where the incident occurred just before 10 p.m. was closed by police and remained off-limits to the public as investigators continued to search for evidence. One officer sustained a minor injury, but it […]
Activist group UltraViolet presented a petition Wednesday to NBCUniversal calling for the firing of its top news executives in the wake of the allegations in former correspondent Ronan Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill.” A small group led by the organization that acts on behalf of sexual assault and harassment victims stood outside the headquarters of […]
Among the many topics covered in his new book “Movies (and Other Things),” bestselling author Shea Serrano writes about high-octane hero Dominic Toretto with such infectious appreciation, I had to invite the visiting San Antonian to the Angelino Heights intersection where it all began. “The mecca!” he grins as we park it on a bench […]
All three elements of last Wednesday’s “Chicago” crossover were among the week’s six most-watched non-NFL programs, helping NBC to its second weekly victory of the 2019-20 prime-time television season. The crossover began with “Chicago Fire,” airing at 8 p.m., an hour earlier than usual, and attracting its largest audience since April 3, averaging 8.24 million […]
Internalized self-hatred fuels a black skinhead finding validation by way of brutality in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s “Farming.” The mercilessly lurid account is based directly on the writer-director’s teenage experience as a product of a practice through which thousands of Nigerian parents fostered out their children to white British families between the 1960s and 1980s. Raised with […]
Here are a few good deals for those going to San Luis Obispo any time soon: The downtown Hotel San Luis Obispo takes 10% off room prices for travelers who want to sample the new property a block from historic Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. And the local Chamber of Commerce throws in $100 […]
Aside from International Space Station astronauts, most us would find 19 hours and 16 minutes an excruciatingly long time to spend in the air. Forty-nine passengers and crew members endured that record-setting flight time aboard a 787 Dreamliner nicknamed Kookaburra. It took off from New York City and didn’t stop until Sunday when it landed […]
You know all about one-way flights and round-trip flights, and nonstop flights and connecting flights, but do you know about stopover flights? That’s when you connect through a particular airport, deplane for a day or two, then continue to your destination. Besides the visit-two-cities-for-the-price-of-one aspect, stopovers let you recover from a long flight by breaking […]
