Alyssa Thompson continues adjusting to life as a professional soccer player who is also in her senior year of high school. Thompson is heading into her final month as a high school student at Harvard-Westlake High and there’s also work, which for her is as a forward for Angel City Football Club. She’s still working…
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When the K-pop boyband BTS announced in June 2022 it was taking a break for a few years, fans of the most successful South Korean act ever were distraught. No more stadium tours until 2025 at the earliest? Jin, and then J-Hope, entering the South Korean military to complete mandatory military service, with the other…
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Jennifer Huynh is confident in her role as an ER nurse at Garfield Medical Center. But that confidence is stretched thin when she’s forced to provide longer-term care for patients because of chronic understaffing. “My specialty is to treat people coming into the ER,” the 32-year-old Alhambra resident said. “But they will sometimes end up…
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James Royal | (TNS) Bankrate Are you on the hunt for money that may have been misplaced or left entirely forgotten? You or a relative may have money left in an old bank account, a 401(k) from an old employer or even a hidden cache of money in an IRA, annuity or pension. This scenario…
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The annual Stagecoach Country Music Festival, which takes over the Empire Polo Club in Indio following two weekends of its sister Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 28-30, will be livestreamed through the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and Prime Video for the first time. Festival promoters Goldenvoice announced that fans will be…
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By DAN SEWELL CINCINNATI — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died Thursday at 79. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings powerhouse and…
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Across the country, states are embracing the concept of education savings accounts as a means of empowering parents to decide where to send their children to school. In the California Legislature, though, the idea is a nonstarter. Last week, the California Senate’s education committee rejected Senate Bill 292 by a vote of two in favor…
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A mild, “garden-variety” recession will slash Southern California hiring by 88% this year and lead to more local job losses next year. The latest crystal ball reading by Cal State Fullerton economists Anil Puri and Mira Farka predicts essentially no job growth in the four-county region during the next two years. That’s a sharp contrast…
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By Nicole Gregory, contributing writer Ding-Jo Currie, distinguished faculty member in the Higher Educational Leadership Program at Cal State Fullerton, was honored with the Leadership Award and inducted into the Leadership Hall of Fame by the American Association of Community Colleges earlier this month, in recognition of her career in developing the quality of leadership…
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By Elizabeth Cohen and Lauren Mascarenhas | CNN Later this spring, a little girl in California who essentially has no immune system will receive a lifesaving treatment for “bubble boy disease” thanks to the persistence of a dogged group of parents, a pediatrician, a veteran newsman and a few episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Five-year-old Seersha…
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