Nico Hoerner’s fluky right ankle sprain cost him only two weeks. Hoerner initially feared he could miss more time after colliding with an umpire in shallow right field May 11 in San Diego. He bounced back well, though, and suddenly the Chicago Cubs infield depth is a strength. Hoerner came off the injured list before…
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Chris Duddy, a longtime educator and principal at El Morro Elementary School in Laguna Beach, died suddenly on Tuesday, May 24, Laguna Beach Unified district officials announced. He was 57. “We are deeply saddened to inform you that our beloved principal, Mr. Chris Duddy, passed away last night in his sleep. Mr. Duddy has been…
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By Morgan Lee | Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. — Firefighters have rescued an abandoned newborn elk calf found amid the ashes of the nation’s largest wildfire as calving season approaches its peak in New Mexico and fires rage across the American West. Missoula, Montana-based firefighter Nate Sink said Tuesday that he happened upon the…
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Western High handed diplomas to its graduating class on Wednesday, May 25, at the Anaheim Union High School District’s Handel Stadium. The commencement featured cheering families and smiling grads as the seniors marked the end of their high school careers and the beginning of their bright futures. Students enter the Western High School graduation ceremony…
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The Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square will begin a soft reopening on Saturday, May 28 before fully reopening in June, according to Disney officials. The restaurant closed for refurbishment on April 21. It will reopen for dinner only starting Saturday before fully reopening June 8. The Blue Bayou will resume accepting reservations…
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During the Cold War in the 1950s, Bert the Turtle showed school children how to protect themselves from an atomic attack in the nine-minute film, “Duck and Cover.” Some 70 years later, school children are still performing duck-and-cover drills, but now the enemy is different. And so, too, are the measures that school districts are…
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SAN FRANCISCO — As Jeff McNeil was getting ready to speak to reporters following the Mets’ 9-3 loss to the Giants on Wednesday, there was Starling Marte, who was standing just a couple of lockers away. “He’s OK, he’s OK. He can play,” Marte called out. With the Mets trailing 9-1 in the bottom of…
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Dan Radakovich, the University of Miami’s new athletic director, has roots at the school that go back to the 1980s when his career began a business manager. He’s now tapping those roots to bring home one of the great Hurricane players from that era. Alonzo Highsmith, 57, who has been an NFL personnel executive for…
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Ravens coach John Harbaugh will be patient in trying to select a competitive group of receivers, but that could be hard. The Ravens had their second day of voluntary minicamp practice Wednesday, which was open to the media. There isn’t much stock to be put into Day 2, but there was a silent alarm of…
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Calm down, Angels fans. Your team isn’t moving anywhere else, for a while at least. That might be the only benefit of the now-defunct deal to sell Angel Stadium to Arte Moreno and his management company, voided Tuesday night by the Anaheim City Council. During the course of the negotiations over an original $325 million…
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