Eyvin Hernandez didn’t quite make it home for Christmas – but for his friends and family, he was close enough. Hernandez, a Los Angeles County public defender who grew up in the South Bay, arrived back in the United States late Wednesday, Dec. 20, following 21 months in a Venezuelan prison. He was one of
Month: December 2023
Tickets are available for purchase online for Bandfest presented by REMO for three shows by bands marching in the 2024 Tournament of Roses Parade, Dec. 29-30, at Robinson Stadium at Pasadena City College. In the file photo, the Wisconsin Northwoods Marching Band from Minocqua, Wisconsin performs during the annual Tournament of Roses Bandfest at Pasadena
Dennis McCarthy has the day off. Here is a “Best of Dennis” column originally published on May 25, 1993 with the headline ‘No age limit on romance,’ in the Los Angeles Daily News. Rose Dorman, 103, elbowed Ann Abrams, 84, at the breakfast table last December, whispering a few words that would turn the widow’s
Happy New Year! In the file photo: By the look of her yawn, 2-year-old Audrina Fontes doesn’t seem like she’ll make it to midnight on New Year’s Eve. Luckily, she was celebrating at noon during the Children’s Museum’s at La Habra event with 250 others on Saturday, December 31, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange
Henry Prudencio stood beside his bicycle near the intersection of Van Nuys Boulevard and San Fernando Road in Pacoima under clear blue skies and temperatures in the 70s. On this December day he was dressed for work in his multicolored shirt, black with white spotted shorts, black and white knee-high socks, black and white striped
Cher has filed for a conservatorship of her youngest son over fears he can’t be trusted with his own money, according to reports. In legal documents seen by the New York Post and celeb news site TMZ, the pop icon suggests Elijah Blue Allman is “substantially unable to manage his own financial resources”. According to
James Bond star Pierce Brosnan has found himself in hot water after allegedly straying into an off-limits thermal area in a part of a famous US national park. The Irish actor has been charged with stepping out of bounds at Mammoth Terraces, in the northern part of Yellowstone National Park near the Wyoming-Montana border, last
Las Vegas wedding venues are gearing up for a potentially record-breaking New Year’s Eve due to an unusual date pattern. This Sunday falls on what is known as a “specialty date” because, when written in American style with the month first, the date is 12/31/23, which has a repeating 1-2-3-1-2-3 pattern, the Las Vegas Review-Journal
Donald Trump did not “bully” his way into a Home Alone 2 cameo, he has told his followers on his social media site, adding he was responsible for the film’s success. The former US president was referring to an interview given by the film’s director Chris Columbus in 2020, where he claimed including Trump was
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a US woman who plotted to kill the mother who had abused her and forced her to fake terminal illnesses, has been released from prison. Blanchard was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center at 3.30am, the Missouri Department of Corrections said. She was granted parole and released three years ahead of her
The father of an American driver who fled the UK after a crash left a British nurse unable to walk has set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds for his son’s legal costs. Issac Calderon, 22, has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a collision on the A4103 near Shucknall
A man was trapped inside his crashed pickup truck for six days, drinking rainwater to survive, before fisherman finally spotted and rescued him, Indiana police have said. The 27-year-old man had been pinned tightly inside his car beneath a highway bridge in northwest Indiana, and could not reach his phone. Two men scouting for fishing
A secretive US government spaceplane has embarked on a classified mission aboard one of the world’s most powerful rockets. The X-37B craft was launched from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. It has been on six previous missions since 2010, most recently in 2020, but the rocket used on Thursday
Maine’s top election official has disqualified Donald Trump from the state ballot in next year’s US presidential primary election – becoming the second state to bar the former president over the Capitol riots. Maine secretary of state Shenna Bellows concluded that Mr Trump incited an insurrection when he spread false claims about voter fraud in
It is “the worst kept secret in parliament” that the UK is heading for a May general election, according to a Labour frontbencher. Emily Thornberry told Sky News that the date of the spring budget “seems to confirm” what many MPs suspect – that the prime minister could go to the polls early. The next
Nigel Farage has branded Home Secretary James Cleverly a “moron” for taking credit for no small boats crossing the UK channel over Christmas. On Wednesday, Mr Cleverly posted on X there had been “no small boat arrivals over Christmas for the first time since they started in 2018″. Today, Mr Farage said: “You may be
With the start of a new year, the 2024 general election campaign will officially get under way. The time for festive frivolity and fun is over. Rishi Sunak poked fun at himself with a highly amusing Home Alone-style video filmed in Number 10 Downing Street for Christmas day. Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria went
Two of Westminster’s best-connected journalists, Sky News’s Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard, guide us through their predictions of how British politics will play out over the next seven days. Click to subscribe to Politics at Jack and Sam’s wherever you get your podcasts Email with your thoughts and rate how their predictions play out:
Households are facing a “debt timebomb” next year, according to analysis from a trade unions group. The Trades Union Congress – which includes the likes of GMB, Unite and Unison – predict unsecured debts are set to surge by £1,400 in 2024. This includes borrowing which does not have property as collateral, such as loans,
MPs are calling for a specific law to punish people who enter football stadia without tickets. The House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee has made the recommendation following the unrest seen at the finals of Euro 2020 at Wembley Stadium. Following the match between England and Italy in July 2021 after COVID-19
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