Month: December 2019

Click:screw world Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news. LAKERS The Indiana Pacers halted the Lakers’ 14-game road winning streak by beating them 105-102 on Tuesday night. The Lakers were without Anthony Davis, who sprained his right ankle on Sunday in Atlanta, and Kyle Kuzma, who has missed four games…

A Simi Valley assistant football coach was arrested this week on suspicion of engaging in sexual acts with a 14-year-old male student and setting up a fake social media profile to solicit pornographic selfies from children. Bijan Nickroo II, 32, is being held on $500,000 bail at the Ventura County main jail and faces felony…

Four men have been arrested in connection with a drug-smuggling scheme in which an ultralight aircraft allegedly dropped nearly 200 pounds of methamphetamine near the Salton Sea, federal authorities announced Monday. Investigators found the drugs, which were packaged in 26 Tupperware containers, after two of the men fled in a dune buggy and crashed into…

SAN DIEGO —  More than 60% of methamphetamine seized by Customs and Border Protection across the country came through California ports, according to data from the federal agency. During fiscal 2019, which ended Sept. 30, CBP agents in California seized more than 80,000 pounds of methamphetamine at the border. That figure accounted for 63% of all…

Since the #MeToo movement went viral in 2017, the voices of Latin American women have been amplified across politics, culture and society at large. Now Latin women are making their presence felt in another arena where they’ve been historically underrepresented and underserved: international diplomacy. That shift is highly visible in Los Angeles, where the consulates…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Dec. 18, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter After much hand-wringing — and a successful bargaining session between a campus food-services contractor and a powerful service-workers union — Thursday’s Democratic debate in Los Angeles is back on at Loyola…

SERIES Survivor The unscripted series ends a season that developed its own scandal after accusations from contestant Kellee Kim and others that one of the contestants, Dan Spilo, was doing some “inappropriate touching” during the competition. The two-hour season finale will be followed by a one-hour reunion special. 8 and 10 p.m. CBS The Masked…

The year-end lists are in; 2019, neatly wrapped up. Once upon a time, Beethoven’s birthday (the indestructible composer turned 249 on Monday) traditionally was an artistic no-news period. But not this year in classical music. Not here, anyway, thanks to Wild Up, which is wildly up to its usual reinvention — innovation being too tame…

Few people remember Richard Jewell as the hero that he was. “Richard Jewell,” written by Billy Ray and directed by Clint Eastwood, aims to right that wrong. In Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics, as a security guard at Centennial Olympic Park, Jewell saved countless lives by moving a crowd of people away from a suspicious…

So many wineries, so little time. Napa Valley’s vine-covered hillsides stretched before us as photographer Jim Edwards and I drove along the region’s central artery, California 29, a two-lane ribbon of asphalt that borders vineyards of some of the best-known wineries in America — Mondavi, Inglenook, Beringer, Beaulieu. I’d been in San Francisco and decided…