British actor Albert Finney, the Academy Award-nominated star of films including “Tom Jones” and “Skyfall,” has died at the age of 82. Finney’s family said Friday he “passed away peacefully after a short illness with those closest to him by his side.” Finney was a rare star who managed to avoid…
By PETER PRENGAMAN and MARCELO SOUSA DA SILVA RIO DE JANEIRO — A fire tore through the sleeping quarters of a development league for one of Brazil’s most popular professional soccer clubs on Friday, killing 10 people who were most likely players and injuring three others, authorities said. Firefighters were called in just after 5…
CULVER CITY — Police searched Friday for a missing 6-month-old boy whose incarcerated parents’ last known address was a family shelter in Culver City. The Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services reported Jacsun Manson missing on Jan. 25, according to Culver City police Lt. Troy Dunlap. “Jacsun’s parents were recently arrested by…
Hieu Nguyen and Mark Kirchner first met at Westminster’s 2013 Tet parade. That was the year the Vietnamese American LGBTQ community was banned from marching by new organizers who had taken over that year. Nguyen, a social worker, attended the demonstration formed to protest the exclusion. Kirchner,…
Muni, a trained bear, drinks sugar water out of a bottle. That’s a bad idea at a beer parlor.
Gunfire struck one person in Fullerton on Thursday, Feb. 7. The shooting was reported at 7:34 p.m. near the 1900 block of Deerpark Dr., according to Fullerton Police Cpl. Mike McCaskill. He said one victim was transported from the area to UCI Medical Center with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Authorities did not immediately release the…
Four days earlier, they raced to put out the flaming wreckage of a small plane that had pelted their quiet Orange County neighborhood. On Thursday night, they lit candles to remember the four people killed when pieces of the plane came hurtling out of the sky and set their home on fire. About 1,000…
John D. Dingell Jr., a powerful and tenacious Michigan Democrat who pushed landmark legislation, exposed corruption in government and became the longest-serving member of Congress in American history, died on Thursday. He was 92. His wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell, announced the death in a statement. Debbie Dingell, who won election to his seat after he…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a Louisiana law that its opponents say could have left the state with only one doctor in a single clinic authorized to provide abortions. The vote was 5-4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the court’s four-member liberal wing. The law, enacted in 2014, requires…
John Dingell Jr., a Michigan Democrat who, as the longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history, used his considerable power in the House of Representatives to uncover government fraud and defend the interests of his home state’s automobile industry, died at his home in Dearborn. He was 92. …
