Karen Bass touts ‘car-free’ L.A. Olympics, but there’s a catch
PARIS — Rush hour all but disappeared. There was less traffic on the freeways and not as much stop-and-go on surface streets. Long-time residents of Southern...
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Commentary: Admit it. August in L.A. is the worst
Here we are, in the middle of August in Los Angeles, and I’m here to say: This is awful. You already knew that if you...
Jake Goossen embraces challenge of replacing Hart’s Herrington brothers
Hart first-year football coach Jake Goossen bought a 65-inch TV for the P.E. office so he could watch film. And a couple of his players...
Conservationists are turning dead urban trees into lumber
To stop California’s 6 million urban trees from knocking out power lines, crashing through houses, or lying across streets when they die, humans have to...
Amid the gloom, doom and anger, can 'joy' win voters over?
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, who gave the world ‘weird’ Republicans, says he and Kamala Harris will respond with joy. Team Trump says that’s absurd....
American Rai Benjamin wins elusive Olympic gold in 400 hurdles
SAINT-DENIS, France — With only three, 36-inch hurdles remaining in the race of his life, Rai Benjamin was in second place, his first championship gold medal...
Maui advances to Little League World Series with win over Eastvale
Almost a year to the day of the devastating wildfires in Maui that killed at least 102 people and leveled 2,200 structures, the community has...
California man among ‘most violent’ Jan. 6 rioters sentenced to 20 years
A Van Nuys man described by federal prosecutors as “one of the most violent rioters” during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection was sentenced to 20...
JD Vance: Divorces from unhappy, ‘even violent’ marriages ‘didn’t work out for the kids’
At a 2021 event hosted by a private Newport Beach high school, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said that after the sexual revolution of...
Anna Cockrell overcomes depression to win silver in 400-meter hurdles
Sometimes a silver medal is but a silver lining, a small consolation for an Olympic athlete who failed to achieve their goal of gold or...