Katie Walsh | Tribune News Service (TNS) Like most summer movie seasons, summer 2024 is lousy with sequels. Last weekend we saw “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” the fourth installment of the “Bad Boys” franchise, take over the box office, and one of the buzziest titles of the summer is “Furiosa,” the prequel to “Mad…
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A Mickey Mouse button with the Disney icon’s white gloved hand raised in a fist as a symbol of fighting oppression is pitting workers against managers at Disneyland as union negotiations continue over a new contract for more than a third of the 35,000 park employees. Master Services Council, which represents 13,000 Disneyland employees from…
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Moments after the University of California regents approved his appointment Wednesday morning, new UCLA chancellor Julio Frenk addressed the system’s governing board. Frenk touched on his personal background and life in public service, UCLA’s mission and history of innovation, the challenges facing higher education and more. It all made perfect sense for a physician who…
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Restaurants are using gift card deals to lure dad away from the grill this Father’s Day weekend, but there’s also bacon, beer and, at one chain, really large steaks. The holiday falls on Sunday, June 16, but many deals start early and run longer. Here are some of the promotions restaurant chains have announced in…
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Jerry West taught multiple generations of Southern Californians various lessons through the years. For children of the ’60s, his and the Lakers’ struggles through the decade against the Boston Celtics reminded us that life wasn’t fair, and valiant effort wasn’t necessarily its own reward. What else could you divine from someone who was named MVP…
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The reported fight for a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy’s gun in Corona on Tuesday resulted in a San Diego County resident being arrested on suspicion of murder and mayhem after the deputy shot to death a woman involved in the struggle and the deputy was hospitalized, the Sheriff’s Department said. Eric Nourani, 33, was also…
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Fullerton Councilmember Ahmad Zahra was met with cheers from about 100 kids as he proclaimed, “Swim camp is open,” at the start of the Zac Foundation’s Water Safety Camp this week. The four-day water-focused camp, hosted by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Fullerton, started with an opening ceremony that included Julie Lopiccolo telling the…
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PINEHURST, N.C. — Pebble Beach has the Pacific Ocean. Oakmont is the brute with its church pew bunkers. Pinehurst No. 2 has the cereal bowls turned upside down. The greens at Pinehurst No. 2 are the signature of this Donald Ross course that hosts the 124th U.S. Open starting on Thursday. They go by any…
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Molly Crane-Newman | New York Daily News NEW YORK — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and a member of the prosecution team that secured Donald Trump’s conviction for covering up a conspiracy to hide information from voters on Tuesday agreed to testify about the case before Congress next month. “It undermines the rule of law to spread…
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NEWTOWN, Conn. — The students who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 live with their trauma — and without their friends — every day. Sitting around a table at the Edmund Town Hall in Newtown on their last Friday as high school students, five seniors who survived the shooting were making plans to…
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