Monday wasn’t the first time it happened to Gavin Lux. His towering fly ball in the fourth inning against Atlanta registered 103 mph off the bat. In the dugout, his teammates rose with anticipation – only to see the ball come to rest in Atlanta center fielder Adam Duvall’s glove just in front of the…
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It’s still far, far, too early in the Mets’ season to make any bold declarations or draw any sort of hard conclusions. Still, the team is 9-3, off to the best start of any team in the league. Surely, there will be pieces of that hot start that deteriorate or cool off as spring turns…
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BOSTON — If Ben Simmons is going to play a playoff game this season, the decision will be his, not anyone else’s. That’s the message Nets head coach Steve Nash delivered hours ahead of tipoff for Game 2 against the Celtics on Wednesday, exactly 10 months after Simmons last played in an NBA game. “There’s…
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DETROIT — Luis Severino had doubts. The right-hander has been through so many setbacks over the last three years it’s only natural that he would sometimes get discouraged, sometimes worry that he wouldn’t make it back. A tear in his lat muscle kept him out for all but the last month of the 2019 regular…
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Four years ago, there were two school counselors tasked with providing both mental health and academic support to the almost 3,000 students at Aliso Niguel High School. Noticing the gap in needed resources, Assistant Principal Sue Puccinelli said she began working with her district and the Wellness and Prevention Center of Orange County, which was…
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By MORGAN LEE SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico workplace safety regulators on Wednesday issued the maximum possible fine against a film production company for firearms safety failures on the set of “Rust” where a cinematographer was fatally shot in October 2021 by actor and producer Alec Baldwin. New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety…
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Should businesses consider a 32-hour workweek? Sure, businesses should always be open to new ideas, new practices, new arrangements of how work gets done. Should governments mandate that certain employers adopt a 32-hour workweek? No, government mandates are a blunt instrument and ill-equipped to weigh the costs and benefits of such sweeping mandates. It’s…
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A new Main Street Electrical Parade float festooned with It’s a Small World-inspired animated dolls recalls the last time Disneyland tinkered with the classic Fantasyland attraction in 2008 and triggered a “Small World War” that outraged fans and traumatized employees. Disneyland will roll out a new 118-foot-long Main Street Electrical Parade finale float featuring 16…
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There’s ultra-conservative former border patrol agent Felix Rocha Jr. and there’s biomedical engineer Mike Ortega, who’s a former member of the Socialist Party. There’s Republican Mike Nguyen, an aerospace engineer-turned real estate developer, and there’s attorney Christopher Gonzales, who got the backing of the state GOP. Then there’s project manager Ed Rushman, who’s the only…
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In recent years, Chinese art has disappeared from Western museums — looted art being stolen once more. The Chinese government has denied accusations that they are behind the thievery as a GQ article about “The Great Chinese Art Heist” is now being made into a movie by Jon M. Chu. There’s another, totally fictionalized take…
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