Because New Year’s was on a Sunday this year, we’re taking today off to recover. But don’t worry, we’ll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, we wish you luck in your 2023 reading goals, and we hope your year is filled with a fireworks display worth of five-star reads.
(Left) Peggy O’Leary, 80, of South Pasadena, accepts applause from the crowd along the Rose Parade route in 2019. O’Leary is the longest-serving ‘pooper scooper,’ volunteering to clean up after the 200 horses on parade. (Right) Peggy is wearing scarf, and the woman in red is Barbara Marshall, at the 2019 Tournament of Roses Parade.
An airport worker has died after being “ingested” into a plane engine in the US state of Alabama. The accident happened about 3pm on Saturday at Montgomery Regional Airport after American Airlines Flight 3408 had arrived from Dallas. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the ground crew worker was “ingested into the engine”
Nearly 2,000 offenders have been made to wear tags that detect if they have drunk alcohol this Christmas. New statistics have revealed about 1,800 offenders have been made to wear sobriety tags over the Christmas and New Year period to tackle alcohol-related crime. The tags, introduced in 2020, monitor the alcohol content in an individual’s
Lola Chantrelle Mitchell, known by her stage name Gangsta Boo, has died. The rapper and former member of Three 6 Mafia was 43. The Memphis-born star was found dead on Sunday, January 1 at around 4 p.m. (local time) and no cause of death has been determined, according to Fox 13 Memphis. Three 6 Mafia
Jan 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananWeb Security / Linux WordPress sites are being targeted by a previously unknown strain of Linux malware that exploits flaws in over two dozen plugins and themes to compromise vulnerable systems. “If sites use outdated versions of such add-ons, lacking crucial fixes, the targeted web pages are injected with malicious JavaScripts,” Russian
The mid season finale is HERE. We’ve finally made it through the first half of the fifth season of Yellowstone and while I can’t say that I’ve been on the edge of my seat this season, the music has been fantastic as always. Yellowstone was back tonight with a brand new episode titled “A Knife
Redmi 12C has been launched in China just before the end of 2022. The new budget smartphone by the Xiaomi sub-brand has gone live in China on the same day that saw the company started the sale for its flagship Redmi K60 series. The Redmi 12C, unveiled as a successor to the Redmi 10C, houses
Close to 50 shops shut down every day in 2022, more than at any other point for at least five years. In a bruising year for retail, 17,145 shops closed last year – up by nearly 50% on 2021, when 11,449 shops shut. Analysis by the Centre for Retail Research found about 47 sites shut up
Play video content TMZ.com Mekhi Phifer has some bad news for “8 Mile” fans, on the heels of the flick’s platinum anniversary — don’t waste time looking for a sequel, ”cause it ain’t happening!!! We caught up with the “8 Mile” star shortly after the classic film marked its 20th anniversary … and we had
In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack, Twitter employees raged at their own company and its leadership, blaming them for the social media giant’s inept handling of Donald Trump and other top MAGA figures’ incitement to violence. “Do you want to have more blood on your hands?” one staffer asked a top executive,
Brandon Sanderson’s vast worlds, surprising plots, and wonderful characters have taken the sci-fi fantasy world by storm. However, even more authors like Brandon Sanderson are out there waiting for you to pick them up and read without delay. As a decade-long Sanderson fan, I have been recommending his books in the Cosmere, the Cytoverse, and
New Year’s Day ‘burning bowl’ services and a ‘Science of Mind’ course upcoming at Center for Spiritual Living on Chatsworth Street in Granada Hills. (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of upcoming faith gatherings in the San Fernando Valley area. Dec. 31 Sherman Oaks Lutheran Church: The Rev. Titus Utecht delivers the message at
Heavy rain and snowfall have hit parts of California, just days after a brutal bomb cyclone struck the US. As Californians prepared to ring in the New Year, officials issued evacuation orders for some northern areas of the US state due to the risk of flooding. Towns and villages around the city of Sacramento and
The Archbishop of Canterbury has kicked off 2023 by putting the Church of England on a collision course with Rishi Sunak’s government. Justin Welby is a canny political operator who is almost certainly the most political archbishop of Canterbury in recent years. And there have been a few of those. During 2022 he led an
It’s hard to view the past year in the news business as anything other than testy and tumultuous. What started as a rather promising job market instead ended with an ad slowdown dominated by news of layoffs and hiring freezes. News networks and news divisions enter the coming year with the ramping up of a
That George Jones was a wild one. His reputation as a country music legend, and one of the best country voices of all time, is well established. His reputation as a bit of a loose cannon is pretty well established too. Obviously, we all know the story of Jones driving a riding lawn mower to
India smartphone shipments declined for the third consecutive quarter, with a drop of five percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022, according to a report. While Xiaomi maintained its leadership in the market, all top-five vendors except Realme saw a decline in their shipments in the quarter. Key reasons for the dip are believed
A group of financial investors which have lent hundreds of millions of pounds to Matalan are close to finalising a deal to take control of one of Britain’s biggest homewares retailers. Sky News understands that the senior lenders, which include prominent City names such as Invesco and Man GLG, could strike a deal within the
Fritz Lang’s trailblazing sci-fi epic Metropolis, the final Sherlock Holmes stories (and the detective character himself), and musical compositions like “Puttin’ on the Ritz” and “My Blue Heaven” are entering the public domain today, Jan. 1. According to the Public Domain Day site, most works copyrighted in 1927 had their rights expire, as U.S. copyright