Editor’s note: This is the Friday, Nov. 11 edition of the Inside the Dodgers newsletter from reporter J.P. Hoornstra. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. This series, like many a Dodger opponent in 2022, seems to have run into a logjam of left-handed starting pitchers. The case studies of Andrew Heaney…
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When Tableau Kitchen + Bar at South Coast Plaza opened last December, owners Ed Lee and chef John Park knew that the restaurant needed a Giving Table. The idea was modeled after the Illumination Foundation Chef’s Table Culinary Gala. Lee and Park had participated in the benefit dinner for years. Park enjoyed creating a themed…
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By Lisa Respers France | CNN Comedian Gallagher, best known for his watermelon-smashing comedy routine and many popular specials in the 1980s, died Friday morning, according his manager Craig Marquardo. He was 76. According to a statement provided to CNN by Marquardo, the comedian died “after a short health battle” and “passed away surrounded by…
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UCLA running back Colson Yankoff can feel a buzz around campus, with the Bruins off to their best start to a season since 2005. But Yankoff pointed to one of the team’s sayings: TBU – true, but useless. Unless they keep winning. “We’re kind of on our own mission right now,” Yankoff said. The Bruins…
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By Augusta Saraiva | Bloomberg US consumers are seeing home buying conditions at their worst in a generation as mortgage rates soar in response to the Federal Reserve’s aggressive tightening cycle. About four in five consumers now describe buying conditions for homes as bad, a record in data going back to 1978, according to the…
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Q. Have you heard if Gov. Gavin Newsom is going to extend the time frame for seniors to renew noncommercial driver’s licenses online? – Joyce Gassert, Chatsworth A. He is not, and it is very unlikely that the California Legislature will either. When Newsom decided that most drivers 70 and over could renew online or…
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When Cal State Fullerton assistant nursing professor Angela Sojobi was completing her education, she was the only black midwife student in her program. The lack of peers that looked like her brought on feelings of insecurity and impostor syndrome. Out of her experience, Sojobi vowed that when she had the opportunity, she would provide Black,…
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Allergies. Academic declines. Asthma. Heart issues. Cancer. Scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades about how kids who regularly inhale emissions from diesel-fueled school buses face an elevated risk of developing each of these conditions. And those risks are greatest for low-income students, who are more likely to rely on public transportation to get…
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Then-Cpl. Frank Simmons took cover with only a small berm of dirt for protection as a barrage of enemy fire sprayed around him near a village in southern Afghanistan. Dehydrated and tired from a foot patrol through the desert in triple-digit heat and humidity, Simmons, a Force Recon Marine sniper, said he watched in horror…
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By STAN CHOE (AP Business Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is tacking a bit more onto its stupendous surge from a day before in Friday morning trading, keeping it on track for a strong gain for the week. The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher a day after soaring 5.5% in what was its…
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