• Michelin Guide awards stars to 18 restaurants in Mexico, including 1 with a SoCal tie

    Michelin Guide awards stars to 18 restaurants in Mexico, including 1 with a SoCal tie
    For the first time in its 124-year history, Michelin has announced a restaurant guide for Mexico. The inaugural directory awarded 18 stars to restaurants in Baja California, Los Cabos, Mexico City, Nuevo Léon Oaxaca and Quintana Roo — 16 spots nabbed one star and two restaurants received two stars.
    Two Mexico restaurants, lauded by Michelin at a ceremony in Mexico City this week, have chefs who also operate spots in Southern California — Carlos Gaytán, whose HA’ i
  • Biden touches down in LA with star-studded event on itinerary

    Biden touches down in LA with star-studded event on itinerary
    President Joe Biden arrives in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 15, 2024.Biden will attend a star-studded campaign fundraising event in downtown Los Angeles that will also feature former President Barack Obama and celebrity
    supporters George Clooney and Julia Roberts.(Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
    Air Force One with President Joe Biden arrives in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 15, 2024.Biden will attend a star-studded campaign fundraising event in downtown Los Angeles that will
  • Commentary: Revenge travel not flying so high these days

    Commentary: Revenge travel not flying so high these days
    Andrea Felsted | (TNS) Bloomberg Opinion
    Revenge travel is losing its appeal.
    After three years of rushing to book trips in the wake of pandemic-era restrictions, sharply higher fares, protests against tourism, fatigue from endless hours spent in airports and incomes squeezed by inflation are all taking their toll on travelers.
    Travel demand is far from falling off a cliff. But there are signs that our wanderlust is downshifting from never-ending to a more normal pattern.
    For airlines and tour o
  • Why does these plants keep dying? Answers for your garden questions

    Why does these plants keep dying? Answers for your garden questions
    Q. Is there a secret to pruning lavender? Every time I try to cut it back it ends up dying!
    Lavender is a tough plant and will grow exceptionally well in the hot, dry inland areas. Sometimes a little too well. I’ve had some lavender plants grow to be 6 feet across. Unfortunately, when it gets that big it will sometimes look kind of rangy. The top part may be covered with flower spikes, but the bottom part will show a lot of bare wood and become unattractive. The temptation is to cut the wh
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  • A program funded by soda tax helps low-income residents buy fruits and vegetables

    A program funded by soda tax helps low-income residents buy fruits and vegetables
    A slice of the nearly $29 million that Boulder collected during the first six and a half years of a voter-passed soda tax has provided low-income residents with extra money to buy fresh produce from local businesses.
    It’s one of many ways the city has directed revenue from that unusual tax to a range of programs focused on improving health equity in the community.
    Maria Fraire, one of nearly 1,500 people across 370 families now enrolled in the Fruit & Veg Boulder program, has relied on
  • Most Americans are significantly stressed about money — here’s how it varies by demographic

    Most Americans are significantly stressed about money — here’s how it varies by demographic
    Sheiresa McRae Ngo | Bankrate.com (TNS)
    One of the most prevalent and enduring types of stress is financial stress. Managing money has been especially difficult with the relentless financial constraints over the past couple of years: A global pandemic, a potential recession and persistently high prices. When keeping up with finances doesn’t go well, it seems like nothing else does either.
    Financial stress refers to a feeling of worry or anxiety over money, debt and various expenses. In a M
  • Southern California housing is preposterously expensive, no matter the measurement

    Southern California housing is preposterously expensive, no matter the measurement
    You really don’t need “affordability” indexes to measure the preposterous expense of Southern California housing.
    Yes, these yardsticks of homebuying’s financial pain often overstate the monetary challenges for a suggested house hunter, who is arguably a unicorn.
    I mean, who buys the typical home with the typical salary while getting a typical mortgage? This buyer’s true magical power is having enough cash for a 20% downpayment, a common mathematical assumption in a
  • How to negotiate the best real estate deal

    How to negotiate the best real estate deal
    Last week, we spent some time discussing the morphing industrial market and its impact upon pricing.
    To review, north Orange County — especially in large logistics boxes — approaching an imbalance weighted upon those who occupy. Supply exceeds demand. Only time will tell if price drops will spur demand, also known an elasticity.
    With that backdrop, today I’d like to offer some suggestions if you find your company heading out to make a deal: either a purchase but especially a le
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  • Sage Hill rallies past Buena Park to reach finals of Girls California Live basketball showcase

    Sage Hill rallies past Buena Park to reach finals of Girls California Live basketball showcase
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowLADERA RANCH — Sage Hill’s new wave of basketball talent collided with Buena Park’s established group Friday at the Girls California Live showcase.
    The new kids on the hardwood prevailed at Ladera Sports Center.
    Freshman wing Addison Uphoff scored a team-high 17 points off the bench, first-year starting wing Kamdyn Klamberg posted all 14 of her points in the second half and returning poi
  • Angels explode for early 8-run lead, hang on to beat Giants

    Angels explode for early 8-run lead, hang on to beat Giants
    SAN FRANCISCO — There are no ugly victories for the Angels this season.
    The Angels aren’t about to apologize for their 8-6 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night, even though they had an eight-run lead in the fourth inning.
    Relievers Adam Cimber and Roansy Contreras struggled in the eighth inning, allowing five runs. Closer Carlos Estévez then took care of the ninth to pick up a save in a game when he likely didn’t think he’d be needed.
    Eight of the
  • 1 man suspected in LAX fistfight that injured passenger is caught, 2nd man turns himself in

    1 man suspected in LAX fistfight that injured passenger is caught, 2nd man turns himself in
    A 38-year-old man suspected of critically assaulting an elderly woman who was checking her baggage curbside at Los Angeles International Airport was taken into custody on Friday, June 14.
    Also, police said late Friday night, the second man suspected in the assault turned himself into law enforcement.
    It was unclear what he was booked on, and investigators did not provide his name.
    Jasan Givens Sr. was taken into custody at Western and Florence avenues around 10:05 a.m. and booked on suspicion of
  • Dodgers cap comeback on Freddie Freeman’s 8th-inning RBI single

    Dodgers cap comeback on Freddie Freeman’s 8th-inning RBI single
    LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman was the most disgruntled .290 hitter in baseball for most of the season’s first two months, searching for a swing that would satisfy his high standards.
    He has emerged from the gloom in June and is batting .357 this month after stroking the go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning to give the Dodgers a 4-3, come-from-behind victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.
    The Dodgers’ offense has been all or nothing over the past month. It was
  • NBA Finals: Mavericks dominate Game 4, avoid being swept by Celtics

    NBA Finals: Mavericks dominate Game 4, avoid being swept by Celtics
    By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer
    DALLAS — Luka Doncic scored 25 of his 29 points in the first half, Kyrie Irving added 21 points and the Dallas Mavericks emphatically extended their season on Friday night, fending off elimination by beating the Boston Celtics, 122-84, in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
    The Mavs’ stars were done by the end of the third quarter, with good reason. It was all Dallas from the outset, the Mavs leading by 13 after one quarter, 26 at halftime and by as many as
  • LA County firefighter killed in vehicle explosion in Littlerock quarry

    LA County firefighter killed in vehicle explosion in Littlerock quarry
    A Los Angeles County firefighter was killed on Friday, June 14, when part of a burning front-loader exploded at a Littlerock quarry.
    Los Angeles County Fire Department crews responded around 2 p.m. to the quarry in the 7300 block of Pearblossom Highway in the community southeast of Palmdale on a report of a burning vehicle.
    County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said a short time after crews arrived, perhaps around 2:10 p.m., an explosion occurred, killing a 19-year firefighter.
    His name was not imme
  • Rickea Jackson’s career night not enough as Sparks fall to Lynx

    Rickea Jackson’s career night not enough as Sparks fall to Lynx
    MINNEAPOLIS — Sparks rookie Rickea Jackson had a breakthrough night, but it wasn’t enough to lead her team to a road win against one of the hottest teams in the WNBA.
    Jackson, the No. 4 pick in April’s Draft, had her first career double-double (19 points and 10 rebounds), but Napheesa Collier scored 30 points to go with a career-high eight steals, Courtney Williams had 15 points and 10 assists for her first double-double of the season and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Sparks, 81-
  • Angels’ Zach Neto has adjusted the way he uses his leg kick during hot streak

    Angels’ Zach Neto has adjusted the way he uses his leg kick during hot streak
    SAN FRANCISCO — Zach Neto said one of his first conversations with new hitting coach Johnny Washington this spring was about picking his spots to change the way he uses his leg kick.
    The Angels shortstop said he went along with the plan.
    Until the season started.
    “I kind of went away from it,” Neto said. “I was just doing what I wanted to do, and that didn’t work out for me.”
    Neto began the season hitting .167 with a .449 OPS and no home runs in his first 79 p
  • U.S. Open: Ludvig Aberg seizes lead; Patrick Cantlay, 2 others are 1 stroke behind

    U.S. Open: Ludvig Aberg seizes lead; Patrick Cantlay, 2 others are 1 stroke behind
    By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer
    PINEHURST, N.C. — The U.S. Open is a new experience for Ludvig Aberg, not that anyone would notice the way his machine-like game gave him the 36-hole lead Friday.
    Pinehurst No. 2 is not.
    Aberg was a 19-year-old from Sweden about to start his college career at Texas Tech when he came to this Donald Ross gem for the 2019 U.S. Amateur, losing in the second round.
    “I remember it was one of my first experiences coming over and playing a really hard golf cou
  • UCI faculty want suspensions lifted for students involved with encampment until disciplinary hearings are completed

    UCI faculty want suspensions lifted for students involved with encampment until disciplinary hearings are completed
    While students from the School of Social Sciences walked across the Bren Events Center stage Friday afternoon to celebrate commencement, approximately 170 faculty members in the UCI Academic Senate met online, many of them to call on the administration to drop disciplinary charges against students involved with May’s Palestinian solidarity encampment.
    The academic senate, a voting body that represents faculty members, has already called for an independent investigation into the administrat
  • Bobby Miller will give Dodgers a 6-man rotation ‘for this moment in time’

    Bobby Miller will give Dodgers a 6-man rotation ‘for this moment in time’
    LOS ANGELES — Bobby Miller will make his return to the Dodgers’ starting rotation on Wednesday in Colorado – and make it a six-man rotation.
    Even as they’ve remained committed to giving their starters (particularly Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and James Paxton) extra time off between starts, the Dodgers have resisted going with a six-man rotation, preferring to use spot starts, the occasional “bullpen games” and off days on the schedule to augment th
  • The rise of Jimmy Kimmel: From raunchy TV skits, to talkshow host to now Biden’s emcee

    The rise of Jimmy Kimmel: From raunchy TV skits, to talkshow host to now Biden’s emcee
    To get people to donate and show up at President Joe Biden’s fundraiser Saturday, June 15, in Los Angeles, host Jimmy Kimmel sent out an unusual appeal via text message:
    He described himself as host of a “poorly rated” late-night TV show (“Jimmy Kimmel Live!”) that Biden’s presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump hates to watch, adding the event will feature “extra malarkey” as promised by Joe Biden.
    While Kimmel has bashed former President Trum
  • Did Redondo Beach woman mastermind her boyfriend’s murder? Jurors set to decide Carson slaying

    Did Redondo Beach woman mastermind her boyfriend’s murder? Jurors set to decide Carson slaying
    A Redondo Beach woman enlisted the help of her ex-husband to kidnap and kill her boyfriend and was the driving force behind the slaying even though she didn’t physically kill the victim herself, a prosecutor told a Torrance Superior Court jury during closing arguments of the former couple’s trial on Thursday, June 13.
    Prosecutor Matthew Pfeffer said Maricela Mercado, 45, never feared her ex-husband, 44-year-old Roman Cerratos, even after he stabbed and shot 32-year-old Jeffrey Appel
  • COVID cases rising again in California after record-low deaths in spring

    COVID cases rising again in California after record-low deaths in spring
    Once again, it seems people are coming down with COVID-19 with data showing positivity rates statewise have increased notably over the past few weeks.
    Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, has noticed the uptick, anecdotally among his friends and colleagues, and in the data. But the good news?
    “It’s nothing approaching the winter, it’s not even as high as it was a year ago at this date,” he said. Metrics for the virus
  • The Book Pages: The woman who got Anne Frank’s diary into print

    The Book Pages: The woman who got Anne Frank’s diary into print
    Sara B. Franklin is the author of the just-published biography, “The Editor,” which explores the life of publishing legend Judith Jones. A writer, teacher and oral historian with a Ph.D. in food studies, biographer Franklin was just 26 when she met the then 88-year-old Jones and began interviewing her about her life and work. As Franklin shares in the Q&A this week, the remarkable Jones, who spent more than 50 years working at Knopf and was only its second female editor,&nbs
  • Did he kill Blaze Bernstein out of hatred for gays? Portrait of Samuel Woodward at trial is mixed

    Did he kill Blaze Bernstein out of hatred for gays? Portrait of Samuel Woodward at trial is mixed
    Looking through the Tinder dating site less than a year before his violent death, Blaze Bernstein was shocked to find that his former Orange County School of the Arts classmate Samuel Woodward — who during their high school years earned a campus reputation as a conservative social outcast among the largely liberal student body — had created a profile searching for other men.
    A late-night meetup between the two former classmates six months later would end with Bernstein buried in a ma
  • How many black bears there are in California might surprise you

    How many black bears there are in California might surprise you
    In a state with 40 million people black bear encounters are on the rise. Here’s a look at the amazing Ursus americanus.
    Black bear sightings are increasing in California with some bears even coming into homes. Just recently an autopsy of a woman killed in 2023, in Sierra County, revealed it was by a black bear — the first in state history. Black bears have been spotted in North San Diego County, which is rare. Many have been spotted in residential areas of Sierra Madre, Monrovia and
  • Fullerton driver charged with allegedly 100 mph, alcohol-fueled crash that killed a motorcyclist

    Fullerton driver charged with allegedly 100 mph, alcohol-fueled crash that killed a motorcyclist
    A 44-year-old driver has been charged with vehicular manslaughter after prosecutors say he ran a red light while drunkenly speeding and struck and killed a motorcyclist.
    Francisco Garcia-Vargas, a Fullerton resident, is also facing a pair of DUI-related charges for a June 12 crash that took the life of 28-year-old Alexander Marce, according to an Orange County District Attorney’s Office statement.
    Marce was stopped on his Harley Davidson motorcycle waiting for a red light at the Orangethor
  • Alexander: Jeanie Buss takes flak from Laker fans

    Alexander: Jeanie Buss takes flak from Laker fans
    The world according to Jim:
    • Jeanie Buss has been taking some serious incoming flak on social media the past few days, and I can’t say some of it isn’t warranted.
    • The Dan Hurley episode was portrayed nationwide as an embarrassment to the Lakers, although that thinking seems an overreaction. The Lakers’ mistake was probably that the six-year, $70 million contract offer was insufficient, but I noted earlier in the week that I wasn’t sure going up to $100 m
  • Galaxy has room for improvement as 2nd half of regular season kicks off

    Galaxy has room for improvement as 2nd half of regular season kicks off
    The Galaxy wrapped up the first half of the 34-game regular season with a loss to the Chicago Fire on June 1.
    The loss might have taken some of the shine off of a strong start to the season, but the Galaxy players and coaches know they’re in a much better spot heading into the second half.
    “I would say a B,” Galaxy midfielder Mark Delgado said of the grade he would give the team for the first half. “Just because there’s so many games where we could have taken more p
  • Angel City FC kicks off a busy week in Houston

    Angel City FC kicks off a busy week in Houston
    Angel City Football Club will reach the halfway point of the 26-game schedule after Wednesday’s game against Racing Louisville FC.
    So far, the first half has been a struggle.
    ACFC is in 12th place with just 11 points and is currently on a four-game winless streak heading into Saturday’s road game against the Houston Dash.
    “We’ve talked about this a lot the last couple of weeks, right now it’s us versus us,” Angel City coach Becki Tweed said. “I think we&
  • Anaheim will use pandemic bonds, reserves to shore up city budget until 2027

    Anaheim will use pandemic bonds, reserves to shore up city budget until 2027
    Anaheim is set to use a combination of pandemic bonds and reserves to keep its budget balanced until 2027, a year before the city expects a massive influx of money to be freed up once 1990s resort bonds are paid off.
    Using pandemic bonds and reserves will prevent the city from having to look at service cuts or raising taxes, officials said.
    Anaheim is eyeing a $2.3 billion budget for its next fiscal year beginning in July, the largest of any city in the county. Driving that huge sum is Anaheim o

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