An ex-Laguna Beach police officer pleaded guilty Friday, Dec. 9 to holding a gun to a fellow officer’s head during a night of partying. He was immediately sentenced to a day in jail and 20 days of Caltrans work. Luke Christian Gilbertson pleaded guilty to a felony count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and…
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PHILADELPHIA — All any team ever asks is to fight for 48 minutes. On Friday night, down big, the Lakers never stopped fighting, punching an 18-point deficit all the way down to zero. It was the five minutes of overtime where all the steam ran out. The Lakers (10-15) missed nine consecutive shots in extra…
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Six years ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown tricked California voters into passing a ballot measure that, he said, would make it easier for non-violent felons to earn paroles and thus ease the state prison system’s severe overcrowding. Brown and other supporters of Proposition 57 spent millions of dollars on the campaign. “All of us learn. I’ve…
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By LEKAN OYEKANMI and ERIC TUCKER SAN ANTONIO — Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday, nearly 10 months after the basketball star’s detention in Russia made her the most high-profile American jailed abroad and set off a political firestorm. Griner’s status as an openly gay Black woman, her prominence in women’s basketball…
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The world according to Jim: • Here is your annual reminder: World Series championships are not won in the first week of December. You’d be mistaken for thinking otherwise given the Winter Meetings buzz. Padres fans are giddy that they landed yet another shortstop, Xander Bogaerts. Phillies fans are even giddier, after an improbable run…
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By JAMEY KEATEN KYIV, Ukraine — The head of NATO expressed worry that the fighting in Ukraine could spin out of control and become a war between Russia and NATO, according to an interview released Friday. “If things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in remarks to Norwegian broadcaster…
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USC quarterback Caleb Williams will have to add a new shelf to his trophy case after the day he had Thursday. The sophomore was named the Associated Press Player of the Year, then won the Walter Camp and Maxwell Awards during the College Football Awards Show on Thursday night. And if history is any indication,…
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A former Transportation Security Administration officer was sentenced Friday, Dec. 9, to five years, 10 months in federal prison for smuggling what he believed was methamphetamine through Los Angeles International Airport in exchange for $8,000. Michael Williams, 39, of Hawthorne pleaded guilty in June to one federal count of attempting to distribute methamphetamine. Williams was…
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Barry Spyker | Tribune News Service Still can’t figure what Kia was thinking when it named the Sorento after a small Italian village famous for lemons. The town of Sorrento, spelled with two r’s, is known for its abundance of lemon trees. Guessing Kia still has a sense of humor about it 20 years later…
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Coming off perhaps their weakest effort of the season, the Kings will pivot directly into a back-to-back pair of road games that will pit them against the Montreal Canadiens and Columbus Blue Jackets this weekend. If the Kings had been seeking to level out their efforts on offense and defense, they did so Thursday in…
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