Five-time Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin announced her retirement from competitive swimming Wednesday after years of shoulder problems. “It took me a long time to say the words, ‘I am retiring.’ A long, long time. But now I’m ready,” Franklin, 23, wrote in a first-person account for ESPN. … Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times
Blog: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ producer Scott Bernstein splits from Los Feliz estate
Down the hill from Griffith Observatory, the Los Feliz home of Scott Bernstein has sold for $4.25 million. That’s around a quarter of a million less than the price he asked in October, but the Universal executive turned independent producer still made a bundle from the sale. He bought the Spanish-style… Source: latimes.com – Los […]
Blog: Mural uproar teaches LAUSD a lesson: Artists have a moral right against censorship
On Dec. 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor, my husband’s family in the Philippines lost almost everything — their home, their business — when the empire attacked Manila. They fled the city on foot, carrying what they could more than 150 miles into the mountains, seeking shelter and living for the next several years […]
Blog: Five takeaways from the Lakers’ 115-110 loss to the Brooklyn Nets
4. The Lakers played their second game without JaVale McGee and handled it a little bit differently than their first. “It all just really depends,” Kyle Kuzma said. “You can’t necessarily play them if they’re a small ball team, but regular traditional lineups, especially having JaVale, he cleans up a lot of our mistakes, a […]
Blog: U.S. drops strict fingerprint policy that slowed release of migrant children from custody
The change could result in the release of many more children from the centers. A series of tents that opened in June to house older children in Tornillo, Texas, was to close later this month. The space originally had 400 beds, but it expanded twice and now holds roughly 2,700 minors. A spokesman for HHS, […]
Blog: Beloved gibbon from Oakland Zoo dies after being relocated to Santa Barbara to find love
The beloved ape died Sunday in Santa Barbara, en route to a veterinary clinic, of what veterinarians suspect was cancer. It will take several weeks for that to be confirmed, though a mass was discovered in Nikko’s upper abdomen, along with abnormality in his kidneys and liver, according to the Santa Barbara Zoo. Source: latimes.com […]