Oline H. Cogdill | South Florida Sun Sentinel It was another banner year for crime fiction with gripping stories that allowed us to examine our lives and the issues that drive society in 2022. A number of authors brought their diverse voices to the mystery genre as Black, Asian, Native American, Hispanic and gay/lesbian writers…
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Editor’s note: This is the Wednesday, December 7, edition of the “Game Day with Kevin Modesti” newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Good morning. This week the last thing I do before going to sleep and the first thing I do after waking up is check for baseball moves. But…
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More than two dozen people associated with street racing or sideshows were arrested in a sweep this week after California Highway Patrol officers found they had their fix-it tickets fraudulently signed off to avoid large repair fees, authorities said. Investigators identified the 27 Orange County residents and took them into custody on Tuesday, Dec. 6,…
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Cindy Krischer Goodman | (TNS) South Florida Sun Sentinel Someone at your office had COVID a few days ago and is now back at their desk in the cubicle next to yours. That can’t be okay, can it? What exactly does it mean to test positive now that masks are off and life is back…
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Fountain Valley’s boys wrestling team is off to a hot start. The Barons finished third in a deep field at the Cossarek Classic at Westminster High this past weekend. The Cossarek Classic annually is one of California’s top early-season tournaments. Fountain Valley is the highest-ranked Orange County boys team in the California rankings compiled by…
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Noor Adatia | (TNS) The Dallas Morning News Users of payment services like Zelle and PayPal faced a growing number of scam calls and messages over the past year, a new report says. The study, by background check company BeenVerified, reveals peer-to-peer service scams gained considerable traction in 2022. Analysts studied more than 165,000 scam calls…
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Tabasum Mustafa excitedly clutches a new laptop — brand new to her, that is. Mustafa, a 10th-grader at University High School in Irvine, is a refugee from Afghanistan who came to the U.S. last year. The laptop, a tool that will help her learn English, was one of 600 given out to refugees on Sunday,…
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By MARK PRATT BOSTON — “Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa explained the significance of the Chicxulub impact crater to actor Domhnall Gleeson over a drink of negroni sbagliato in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia,” is the kind of sentence that just might tie your tongue up in knots. It contains five examples from this year’s…
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Paul Pearson | (TNS) Las Vegas Review-Journal Let’s face facts. Not everyone who visits the Las Vegas Strip is old enough to drink or gamble, even if the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s latest ads might want you to believe otherwise. But this place didn’t earn its title of entertainment capital of the world…
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His name may not be familiar, but there’s a good chance you’ve seen Vincent Paterson’s work as a dancer or choreographer. Like, say, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” music video? Paterson’s one of the two gang leaders knife-fighting in the climactic dance-off. Or Madonna’s groundbreaking Blond Ambition tour? He co-directed its dance numbers for the Material…
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