From left, fourteen-year-old Zoe Adler of Ship 550 competes in a boat race with seven-year-old Evelyn Bradford of Cub Scout Pack 267 during Boy Scouts of America’s Scout-O-Rama in Long Beach on Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer) From left, fourteen-year-old Zoe Adler of Ship 550 and seven-year-old Evelyn Bradford…
Chalk-drawn waves of blue, varying in shades and lengths, stretched across part of Long Beach’s Marine Stadium on a grey, gloomy morning. While the artistic waves set an upbeat tone for 500-plus attendees on Saturday, June 1, who came to the city’s first Climate Festival event — which aims to educate the public about climate…
California Democrats hold party convention attracting several presidential hopefuls including Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke.
By BILL BARROW COLUMBUS, Ohio — The center of presidential politics this weekend is the California Democratic Convention, but Democrats’ 2020 front-runner is almost 2,500 miles away, going it alone. Joe Biden will headline an LGBTQ civil rights gala Saturday evening in Columbus, Ohio. It’s an appropriate venue for a Democratic White House hopeful on…
By HANNAH GRABENSTEIN LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Crews were making a “last ditch effort” on Saturday to save low-lying parts of a small Arkansas city from floodwaters pouring through a breached levee, as authorities downstream were warning people to leave a neighborhood that sits across the swollen river from the state capital. The Arkansas River,…
The good news is that two trash-strewn downtown Los Angeles streets I wrote about last week were cleaned up by city work crews and have been kept that way, as of this writing. The bad news is that I didn’t have to travel far to find more streets just as badly fouled by filthy mounds…
Tony DeLap, the Orange County artist who helped to define West Coast minimalism through his meticulous exploration of the intersection of sculpture and painting, has died. He was 91. DeLap died Wednesday at his home in Corona del Mar, said his studio assistant and archivist, Robin Johnson. DeLap…
Sevilla says former Spain midfielder Jose Antonio Reyes, who won five Europa League titles and was part of Arsenal’s unbeaten “Invincibles” squad, has been killed in a traffic accident at the age of 35. Sevilla and second-division club Extremadura, where Reyes played last season, both confirmed…
You’ve probably heard that most of the major Hollywood studios, several networks and Netflix lined up this past week to express their concern over the strict new anti-abortion laws getting passed in some states, especially the fetal heartbeat one in top runaway production destination Georgia. “Given the legislation has not yet been implemented, we’ll continue…
One of the San Joaquin Valley’s most tenacious opponents of the California bullet train has decided to settle its lawsuit against the project, convinced that the state will operate slower-speed Amtrak trains on its future network in the Central Valley — not the long-promised 220-mph electrically…
