Prep Rally: Bishop Montgomery is making headlines for all the wrong reasons
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Prep Rally. What’s a high school football season without scandal and success. It’s just happening in the opening week. Newsletter Get our high…
Trail of fraud lawsuits follows Hollywood producer
Bennett LeBarre was in a rush. He had been brought on to a David Duchovny project as the line producer and needed a production accountant quickly. In August 2022, he…
Chagas disease: The deadly disease you’ve never heard of is here
It’s one of the most insidious diseases you’ve never heard of, but Chagas is here in California and 29 other states across the U.S. It kills more people in Latin…
Financial advice about living trusts, capital gains and COBRA
Dear Liz: My friend died unexpectedly. I am helping her stepson, who is the successor trustee for her living trust, to get the estate settled. Her estranged son was a…
Contributor: If tackle football isn’t safe for girls, why do we let boys play?
As summer turns to fall, roughly 1.2 million U.S. teens are suiting up to play high school football. But something is shifting in this annual autumn rite. Tens of thousands…
Oregon firefighter’s arrest by Border Patrol was illegal, lawyer says
SEATTLE — Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire, saying that the firefighter was on…
Contributor: Newsom’s knives-out memes show plausible strategy against Trump
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on TikTok, viral Gavin Newsom memes are taking over social media. There’s Newsom Photoshopped into a classic black-and-white Calvin Klein…
Netflix’s unlikely summer blockbuster: A ‘KPop’ smash that took over the internet
It was bound to happen sometime. This year, the most important Hollywood movie of the key summer season didn’t start its quest for world domination in movie theaters. It came…
Where to eat right now in the San Fernando Valley
As with all of Los Angeles, one word or phrase can’t characterize the San Fernando Valley, or its 1.8 million residents. When it comes to dining within its 250-plus-square miles,…
As U.S. fleet steams toward coast, Venezuelans face uncertainty, fear and, for some, hope
CARACAS, Venezuela — U.S. warships steam toward the southern Caribbean. The Trump administration denounces embattled “narco-president” Nicolás Maduro and doubles a bounty on his head to $50 million. Rumors of…