By JOSEPH PISANI NEW YORK — Seven-year-old Ryan drew millions of views reviewing toys on YouTube. Now, he’s become a toy himself. Walmart is selling action figures in his likeness, putty with his face on the packaging and other toys under the Ryan’s World brand. It’s a bet that kids, who are spending more time…
By ALAN FRAM, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON — Two wavering Republican senators lambasted President Donald Trump on Wednesday for mocking a woman who has claimed Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, underscoring the risks of assailing Kavanaugh’s three accusers as Senate support teeters for the Supreme Court nominee. The blowback to…
By JIM HEINTZ and DAVID KEYTON STOCKHOLM — Three researchers who “harnessed the power of evolution” to produce enzymes and antibodies that have led to a new best-selling drug and biofuels won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday. Frances Arnold of the California Institute of Technology was awarded half of the $1.01 million prize,…
Frances H. Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering, biochemistry and bioengineering at Caltech has become the fifth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize for chemistry. (Photo courtesy of Caltech) PASADENA — Half of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry went Wednesday to a Caltech scientist who becomes only the fifth woman to win…
For more than a year, Los Angeles police have been puzzled by a series of sophisticated burglaries targeting some of Tinseltown’s biggest celebrities and athletes. As the list of victims grew to include L.A. Dodgers player Yasiel Puig, singer-actresses Rihanna and Christina Milian among others,…
Authorities arrested two suspects on suspicion of homicide following a disturbance in Lake Forest on the morning of Monday, Oct. 1. A resident at the Forest Glen Apartment Community at 25092 Farthing St. called police at about 5:50 a.m. Monday after finding a seriously injured man who had collapsed in a courtyard, according to a news…
HUNTINGTON BEACH — A 64-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her 92-year-old mother, authorities said Tuesday. Huntington Beach police say that on Sept. 4, officers responded to the 6800 block of Vista Del Sol Drive in Huntington Beach to perform a welfare check on 92-year-old resident Ruth Strange after a caller said…
A former teacher at a Los Angeles Unified elementary school in Canoga Park pleaded no contest Tuesday to two felony counts of lewd acts upon a child. As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, Rene Tenas, 39, is scheduled to be sentenced to five years in prison on Nov. 16 at the Van Nuys…
LAKE FOREST — A 36-year-old man is behind bars on charges of kidnapping and robbing three bank tellers in Lake Forest, court records obtained Tuesday show. A still image from surveillance video showing a man suspected of robbing the Wells Fargo inside the Stater Bros. grocery store in Lake Forest on Monday, Sept. 24 as…
The first significant rain of the season hit the Bay Area early Tuesday while Southern California was preparing for its share of the storm, which is expected to roll in by Wednesday. A low-pressure system making its way through the northern part of the state will bring precipitation from the coast…
