The ecstatic sailor shown in a photograph kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95. Mendonsa’s daughter, Sharon Molleur, told the Providence Journal Mendonsa fell and had a seizure Sunday at the assisted living facility in Middletown,…
In 1959, Walt Disney watched his monorail encircle Disneyland in Anaheim, a train from the next century bringing park guests, appropriately enough, into Tomorrowland. Disney figured transportation planners would take his monorail concept — a sleek, elevated, electric-powered train straddling a single beam — and replicate it inside real cities. “He wanted to build a…
GLENDALE — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is set to speak Monday night in Glendale at what is billed as an organizing event for her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Doors will open at the Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., at 6 p.m., with the event beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Tickets…
By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s off-hand comment in Warsaw about Poland and the Holocaust set in motion a diplomatic crisis that on Monday scuttled this week’s summit of central European leaders in Israel. Poland’s abrupt decision to cancel its participation in the planned Visegrad conference in protest blew up the gathering,…
A new California law decriminalizing the home-cooking cottage industry could end up helping tech giants while hurting home cooks who make and sell dumplings and tamales.
Vice President Richard Nixon meets crowd of 3,000 after arrival at Los Angeles International Airport.
A man was shot to death Sunday night in a Norwalk parking lot, authorities said. The shooting was reported at 7:16 p.m. outside a business in the 11600 block of Rosecrans Avenue, Deputy Tracy Koerner of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Information Bureau said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, Koerner said….
Molly Babcock gets a congratulatory kiss from her husky mix, Koda, after taking second place in the Paws FUR Pink 5K race at Irvine Regional Park in Orange on Sunday, February 17, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Susan Cossaboom of Yorba Linda and her 8-year-old golden retriever, Pearl, take part in doggie…
Patrick Caddell, the pollster who helped propel Jimmy Carter in his longshot bid to win the presidency and later distanced himself from Democrats, has died, a colleague said Saturday night. Caddell was 68. Caddell died Saturday in Charleston, S.C., after suffering a stroke. That’s according to…
AYER, Mass. — Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison after being convicted of having illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl in 2017. The Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows the 54-year-old New York Democrat is currently in the custody of its Residential Re-entry Management office in Brooklyn, New York….
