One player discovers the ‘grass isn’t always greener’ elsewhere
There were more than 17,000 high school sports transfers recorded last school year in California, and one of the most bizarre involved Chaminade offensive lineman Harout Agazaryan. On a Monday…
me-palisades-fire-cause – Los Angeles Times
Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
Paramount Chief David Ellison champions Oct. 7 drama ‘Red Alert’
About 200 people gathered on Paramount’s Melrose Avenue lot for a screening of “Red Alert,” a four-part scripted drama portraying the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel from the…
New conservation plan seeks to shoot Catalina’s deer on the ground instead of from helicopters
Santa Catalina Island’s mule deer are back in the crosshairs. This month, the California Island Conservancy announced a plan to rid the landscape of its entire nonnative deer population using…
The week’s bestselling books, Oct. 12
Hardcover fiction 1. The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books: $30) Members of the Thursday Murder Club plunge back into action after a wedding guest disappears. 2. What…
Sicilian man said to work for Mexican Mafia charged with racketeering
Salvatore Nania has not set foot in his hometown of San Pedro since 1995, when he was arrested at 17 for murder. But according to law enforcement authorities, being locked…
LACMA gets its first Klimt and Schiele paintings as part of large gift
More than 100 works of Austrian Expressionism are being gifted to Los Angeles County Museum of Art by the family of Otto Kallir, a renowned art dealer who immigrated to…
A fridge for every apartment in California, thanks to a new law
Starting next year, you won’t have to comb through Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist for a decent used refrigerator because your California apartment doesn’t come with one. That’s because on Monday…
Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2025: A look at the participating artists
The built environment of Los Angeles — as well its opaque soul — is on display at UCLA’s Hammer Museum as it opens the seventh edition of its popular Made…
What caused the massive El Segundo explosion? Refinery experts have some theories
The focus of the investigation into what caused a massive explosion and fire last week at Chevron’s El Segundo plant has turned to a jet fuel processing unit in the…