Verbum Dei’s football team prepares to rise again, the right way
It was as startling as seeing a bear swimming in a backyard pool. Travis Russell, the 40-year-old Jesuit priest who’s president at Verbum Dei High, was carrying around a Craftsman…
Luis Campusano hits 24th homer in El Paso win, – San Diego Union-Tribune
Luis Campusano hit his Padres system-best 24th home run, leading Triple-A El Paso to an 11-9 come-from-behind win at Sacramento on Tuesday. The 26-year-old catcher served as the DH and…
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld makes late night his punch line: ‘We’re the ones now who are having fun’
Late night has a new tone in 2025, and Greg Gutfeld is the one setting it, one unpredictable quip at a time. Rewriting the rules and bringing his signature acerbic…
Hiltzik: Trump takes aim at cash bail
Earlier this week, Donald Trump identified another threat to “Americans’ safety and well-being,” along the same lines as the threat that prompted him to send military vehicles and armed soldiers…
Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers to present his defence at coup trial
Lawyers for Jair Bolsonaro will present their defence arguments at his trial at the Supreme Court in Brasília on Wednesday. The former Brazilian President governed the country from January 2019…
Voters have spurned rich candidates for California governor, U.S. Senate
The rich, to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, are different. In California, they lose a lot of very expensive, very high-profile political races. Over the past 50-plus years, a half-dozen fabulously…
California highway, falling into sea, needs a $2-billion tunnel fix
DEL NORTE COUNTY, Calif. — In March 1972, Kurt Stremberg’s parents gave him a predawn ride from their house in northwest California to his friend’s home in the tiny town…
We Explore Earth has full-moon hikes, yoga, stargazing and community
As the last bit of the afternoon sun beamed down on a patch of grass right outside Elysian Park, hikers unfurled yoga mats and stretched beside a busy street. Dogs…
The Eaton fire tore a music community apart. South Pasadena’s Sid the Cat Auditorium may help revive it
When Kyle Wilkerson was gutting the interior of the new Sid the Cat Auditorium in South Pasadena, he found reminders of the woman who first made it beautiful a hundred…
COVID wave washes over California, some health officials urge masking
A COVID wave is washing over California, with the state seeing continued increases in the number of newly confirmed cases and hospitalizations as some officials urged the public to take…