Actor Peter Mayhew, who played the original Chewbacca, arrives for the premiere of the film ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ in Hollywood, California on May 10, 2018. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP) Actor Peter Mayhew, right, who played Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” movies, poses with a Chewbacca character, on May 27, 2005,…
Mike Doyle first put his feet on a board in 1953 when surfing was — at best — a cultish hobby shared by a handful of hardened, sun-blazed surfers. They called him “Malibu Mike,” a tall kid from the wrong side of Interstate 5 who rode the waves with a muscular aggression many on the…
Sherry Guo came to California five years ago, a teenager from China with dreams of attending an elite university. Her attorney does not dispute she got into Yale through the machinations of William “Rick” Singer, a Newport Beach consultant who defrauded the Ivy League school and similarly selective…
LOS ANGELES — The Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance will hold its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration Thursday, with the theme, “Value, Morality and Justice.” Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center’s founder and dean, will make a commemorative address at the museum focusing on the rise of anti-Semitism around the world. The center…
The phone isn’t yet off the hook and the website still allows guests to make dinner reservations. But brown parchment paper covers the windows of Traxx, signaling the closure of the longtime Union Station eatery. Inside, darkness fills the Art Deco space. The only light that emanates comes from…
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI DENVER — U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado jumped into the packed Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, announcing a 2020 campaign that had been stalled while he was treated for prostate cancer. Bennet, a former head of Denver Public Schools who has carved out a reputation as a policy-oriented moderate, made his…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department. Barr’s decision, made after a disagreement with a House committee over questioning, came the day the department also missed a…
A substitute teacher has been barred from teaching in Corona-Norco schools while educators investigate allegations that he took “inappropriate pictures” of college students working as tutors at Corona’s Raney Intermediate School, officials said this week. Corona police determined that no crime was committed. Clayton Turner, whose daughter attends Raney and accompanied a student who made…
Donna Atwood and Bobby Specht, stars of the 1951 edition of the Ice Capades, perform a “stag leap.”
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake hit about four miles southwest of Calistoga and was felt in Sonoma and Napa counties. More than 500 people reported feeling the shaking, which hit at 10:17 p.m. Wednesday, and reported it to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Did You Feel It? crowdsourcing website. Light shaking,…
