A man allegedly carrying a gun prompted evacuations of a stores in a Santa Ana strip mall on Tuesday, and police were working to negotiate his surrender. The man was spotted outside a Hobby Lobby store in the 1900 block of East 17th Street around 5 p.m. It’s unclear if he entered the store or…
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The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Aug. 27 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org. HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Tom Lake: Ann Patchett 2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride 3. Tomorrow, and…
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LOS ANGELES — Stardom continued to shine on El Segundo’s Little League World Series champs on Tuesday. Southern California’s youth baseball superstars spent another day in the limelight topped by a night under the lights at Dodger Stadium. Players and their families were treated to an afternoon on the field during pregame warmups and…
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DEL MAR — Trainer John Shirreffs didn’t have the opportunity to see Skinner compete in the Kentucky Derby this past spring, but he’ll watch his 3-year-old colt run in Saturday’s 33rd renewal of the $1 million Grade I Pacific Classic at Del Mar. Skinner, a son of Curlin, was scratched from the Derby the morning before…
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LOS ANGELES — His fellow Trojans clown him, the chatter nonstop since Saturday, the opportunity just slipping through Domani Jackson’s fingertips after he’d gritted through a humbling year to nab it. “He’s dropping money!” they’ve been teasing Jackson, he said, because the sophomore cornerback had the greatest chance of all of them in USC’s first…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now SANTA ANA — Corona del Mar senior Noah Gerard knows from experience that the trek to playing varsity-level water polo at an Orange County powerhouse program can require years of persistence and being ready when opportunity arrives. He also experienced the rewards of…
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By KRYSTA FAURIA LOS ANGELES — The company had struggled for years, tossed around by pandemic-induced production shutdowns that began in March 2020. Last year, though, business for Valentino’s Costume Group had finally picked back up. Hoping to capitalize on that good fortune, the shop moved in January to a North Hollywood space twice the…
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By SONIA PÉREZ D. AND MEGAN JANETSKY GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei called Tuesday for a democratic transition of power to anti-corruption campaigner and president-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his Seed Movement party, which have faced waves of legal attacks in attempts to block his rise to power. The president’s statement came after a…
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By ARIEL GILREATH of The Hechinger Report and JACKIE VALLEY of The Christian Science Monitor On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school. One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to multiplication questions before sprinting back to high-five their…
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Rapper Travis Scott has announced his 2023 North American outing dubbed Travis Scott Presents Utopia – Circus Maximus Tour, which will include a stop at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Sunday, Nov. 5. The announcement follows the momentum of Scott’s newest record, “Utopia” that dropped in late July. The record has held the No. 1…
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